RECORD YEAR FOR THE INDUSTRY
Farmindustria's 2016 preliminary results are positive. Production exceeds 30 billion with growth in October (on October 2015) of 5.3% and an average of +2.3% in ten months and orders are still growing in the last two months of the year due to the solid increase in overseas sales. The driving force is exports, which reach 21.3 billion. In terms of exports, the pharmaceutical sector is the one that grows the most in the Italian industrial panorama and also with respect to the European average.
( … full article on Il Sole 24ORE of 5 January 2017 by Roberto Turno)
Ed.: recently the Supreme Court has ruled that a company can "legitimately" fire an employee to increase profits. Evidently the cassation arrives late: from 2007 to today the Italian pharmaceutical industry has not experienced a crisis (in the period 2010-2013 +73% in exports), has always increased its turnover, and since 2007 the same pharmaceutical industry has fired 15,000 Scientific Representatives only for further increase the already generous profit, in the most absolute and complicit silence of the media, politicians and trade unions. An Italian disgrace!
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ISTAT. Production of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations +6.3% in October
ISTAT. Industrial production. Pharmaceuticals increase of +5.4% in 2015
ISTAT. Pharmaceutical industrial production -2.3, Export + 20% in 2014
