Posts in Life Science
Building a growth engine by balancing soft and hard

In 2019, the global investment organization EQT acquired Karo Pharma with the ambition to build a leading Over-The-Counter healthcare provider in Northern Europe. Later that year, Christoffer Lorenzen was brought in as CEO to lead that journey. Christoffer made the transition from the bioscience company Chr. Hansen, where he had been part of leading the company’s successful growth journey.

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Why Culture Matters For Pharma Strategy

The U.S., Japan and Eurozone remain the key markets for most companies, but the increasing focus on cost effectiveness and the difficulties of the general economy, make the potential for significant growth in these markets questionable. In contrast, emerging pharmaceutical markets have been growing in the double-digits and are expected to continue expanding in the years ahead, due to strong economic growth, demographic changes, and improved funding for health care.

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​Disease Is Not Just Physical

Building on ReD’s ethnographic study of the condition, the results of a global quantitative investigation of nearly 2,000 psoriasis sufferers was recently published in the Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology. The study’s main finding confirmed ReD’s: “the experience of the disease is as much a psychological, social, and emotional experience as a physical one”.

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