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Deputy minister of trade and industry, Elizabeth Thabethe, recently encouraged SMMEs involved in the cosmetic industry to formalise and penetrate bigger markets. This was during the first workshop for those involved in this sector, held during May in [ ... ]

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Companies from either the Pharmaceutical Industry Association of South Africa (PIASA) or the Innovative Medicines South Africa (IMSA) are now unified under the Innovative Pharmaceutical Association South Africa (IPASA). Launched on 2 April, the new a [ ... ]

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On 2 May the Reckitt Benckiser Group announced that the three year collaboration agreement signed with Bristol-Myers Squibb Company on 1 February 213 was complete. This means that regulatory approvals, including anti-trust approvals in the relevan [ ... ]

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Keeping medicines safe for an extended period of time, as well as greater efficiency and cost reduction, are major criteria for packaging material. According to solutions provider Klöckner Pentaplast, in its white paper ‘Pharmaceutical blister pac [ ... ]

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International beauty giant L'Oréal announced on 15 April it acquired the Health & Beauty business of Interconsumer Products Limited (ICP) in Kenya from its founding shareholder. With a turnover of approximately €15 million (around R186 million [ ... ]