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Europe Best Pharmaceutical Company

Switzerland

The global growth based upon respect A successful story in the pharmaceutical industry Sintetica is a Swiss pharmaceutical company delivering injectable anaesthetics and analgesics to patients worldwide, through innovative science and excellence in development, production and marketing. Pasquale Mitidieri, Global Markets Corporate Director, tells us more about Sintetica’s growth, following their Awards as Best Pharmaceutical Company of the year 2017 - Switzerland.

Established 1921 in Switzerland, Sintetica have sites based in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy and United Kingdom, with the headquarters in Mendrisio, Switzerland. With 230 people employed in Europe with an average of 41-year coming from 25 different countries in the world. Sintetica’s focus is primarily on local anaesthesia and pain relief. “Local anaesthesia and pain relief are two areas in which we have been the market leader for many years in Switzerland. Moreover, we are also seeking to develop

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a leadership position in the growing field of neuromodulation” as Pasquale explains. Beginning 2012, we established the global division, which was the first international corporate structure. The global division was tasked with pursuing international growth under two distinct models, being a B2B licensing strategy and somewhat later a B2C strategy in select markets. “Under the B2B model, we sought to license out our top brands to partners with whom

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