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Firms Slam Fresh Price Cut Threats

September 2006 | Company Finance Alert

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Smaller German drugmakers have opposed any further government moves to cut medicines costs, following deep reductions in generic drug prices in recent months. Germany's mid-sized pharmaceutical companies have witnessed a frenzy of M&A activity in recent weeks, at a time when the so-called Economic Optimization of Pharmaceutical Care Act (AVWG) is introducing harsh cost cuts..