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Weekly Report - 13 February 2014 (WR-14-06)

TRACKING TRENDS

COLOMBIA | La Santé poised to go global. On 6 February Colombian pharmaceutical firm, La Santé, announced that it had successfully completed the acquisition of Pharmetique S.A., the local subsidiary of German pharmaceutical giant Boehringer Ingelheim, for an undisclosed amount. The deal allows La Santé to consolidate itself as the main player in Colombia’s pharmaceutical industry and provides it with a solid platform from which to continue to pursue its rapid internationalisation. In recent years, La Santé has emerged as one of the region’s ‘multilatinas’, with operations in 12 different Latin American countries, all of which allowed it to post US$360m in sales last year.

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