Latest Interviews

ANASTACIO OVERSEAS

"We have around 1,000 products in our portfolio, which we aim to continue growing with approximately 10 new products per month. Our key divisions in Brazil are beauty and health, industrial processes, and food. An important factor to achieve ultimate growth is that we treat each business segment like an individual company."

ATLAS VENTURE

"Two thirds of the floor space here in Atlas’s office is incubator space for six to eight nascent companies with the expectation that in six to 12 months they outgrow that space and launch elsewhere nearby."

NOBEL İLAÇ

"The most profitable route would be to invest into the development of new molecules, but we are not there yet. Given these circumstances, we need to focus our innovation efforts within the existing molecules. The vision of our industry should not be limited to sub-contracted production."

PFIZER

"We recognize that each partnership is unique, and over the years our teams have become more and more creative and resourceful in creating deal structures that share in the risks and opportunities so that each party and its respective stakeholders – including patients, innovators and investors – are positioned for success."

ANGLO AMERICAN CHILE

"The Los Bronces project was designed under the following sustainability criteria: No impact on glaciers; no impact on the biodiversity of protected areas; no additional fresh water use in processes; using already authorised capacity of tailings and waste rock deposits; using existing processing plants and no additional traffic on the access road."

TRIGON METALS

"The trouble is at this mezzanine level, where you have done all your studies and have an operation you are trying to put in to production, it is very difficult to raise finance. The problem lies with a previous misuse of capital by the junior/development market, as companies were building mines with the view to sell them, rather than really building to move into sustained production. The few companies that have successfully navigated the path from exploration to production, such as Osisko, are held in a rarefied air because they are the exception rather than the rule."