Alliance Boots Enters Market

UK-based pharmacy chain and wholesaler Alliance Boots has formed a joint venture with China's third largest wholesaler, Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals, to penetrate one of the world's largest and fastest growing pharmaceutical markets. BMI strongly endorses Alliance Boots' strategy and expects the new entity to swiftly establish itself and simultaneously present opportunities to drugmakers that have existing relationships with the UK firm. On the back of robust financial growth, BMI expects China's pharmaceutical market to reach a value of nearly US$47bn by 2010, up a phenomenal 73% from our current valuation of approximately US$27bn.

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