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India Pharma In 2019: Buy, Build And Beware (Patient Power And Amazon)

 
• By Anju Ghangurde

2019 promises to be action-packed for Indian firms as they stay hungry for M&A and on course to transition to a more innovation-led play. But election year surprises in India, rising patient awareness, and the entry of non-traditional players like Amazon could well up the variable quotient for pharma, industry pundits tell Scrip.

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2019 COULD SEE MULTI-FACETED ACTION IN THE INDIAN INDUSTRY

2019 could well turn out as the "buy-build-scale" year for Indian Pharma Inc, going by the predictions of some industry pundits.

Indian firms are generally forecast to sew up new acquisitions, take more definitive steps away from pure-play generics towards specialty...

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