Massively buy drugs. Record increases in the market … – Biztok.pl

The first five months of the year was exceptionally good for the pharmaceutical market. Sales in the domestic pharmacies amounted to nearly 12.5 billion zł, an increase of about 7 percent compared to the same period of 2014. According PharmaExpert throughout the year, sales will increase by more than 6 percent.

– It was a unique period, long since we had such a – indicates in an interview with the news agency Newseria Jaroslaw Frackowiak, CEO of pharmaceutical market research and analyst firm medical PharmaExpert. – After the Reimbursement Act has market collapse, then slowly returning to previous levels, and now the reconstruction took place so suddenly.

By PharmaExpert total sales of the pharmacy market in May amounted to over 2.3 billion zł and it was higher by 2.94 percent. of turnover in the same period a year earlier. In April, however, it was higher by more than 10 per cent., In March by 5.77 per cent., And in February up by 12.49 per cent. The January increase was 7.40 percent.

– The first five months of the year was a record – notes Jaroslaw Frąckowiak. – It is almost zł 12.5 billion spent on reimbursed products in pharmacies, prescriptions full price, as well as handwritten sales channel.

According to the president PharmaExpert are three reasons why such large increases. Firstly, they went up pharmaceutical prices. In 2014 years they grew slowly to the end of the year practically no longer change. Currently in the segment and sales of reimbursed drugs handwritten went up strongly, making up for last year’s stagnation. Secondly, it was the season of colds.

– Many people have become sick and therefore bought over the counter products or antibiotics – explains Frąckowiak. – It was probably about 30 percent. total market growth in the first months compared to the same period last year.

An important reason was the introduction to sell a large number of new products.

– Perhaps if they were not there, so the market would have grown intensively – says Frackowiak. – Very high pressure, market, clients need, wider offer, and perhaps all of these factors together make products simply sell well. Of course, it’s all about selling a handwritten, ie without a prescription, but not only.

The outcome of optimism to forecast market growth throughout the year. It also shows preliminary data for June.

– The growth rate is still very high – says the president Frąckowiak. – It seems that this end of year result, which I do not remember from the 90s According to our predictions it could be even more than 6 percent. growth. This success will not be divided equally between the players on the pharmaceutical market, but one likely to be a common result.