Evolution of multi vitamin and multi mineral market in Bangladesh and finding business scope for Square to Pursue
Abstract
This report is prepapred as from the learning of the internship program under the BBA program at BRAC
University working in one of the most vital divisions in the Square pharmaceutical Limited‐Product
Management Department (PMD).
The pharmaceutical business in Bangladesh is a major technologically developed sector. Pharmaceutical
manufacturers produce insulin, hormones, and tumor drugs. This division gives 97% of the aggregate
therapeutic prerequisite of the domestic market. The business likewise fares solutions to worldwide
markets, including Europe. Pharmaceutical organizations are growing their business with the mean to
extend the exporting market.
The Industry sends out dynamic pharmaceutical fixings and an extensive variety of pharmaceutical
productions, covering all real restorative classes and measurements structures, to 79 states. Alongside
customary structures like tablets, containers and syrups, Bangladesh likewise fares specific items like
HFA inhalers, CFC inhalers, suppositories, nasal showers, injectable, IV imbuements, and so forth. These
items have been very much acknowledged by restorative specialists, scientists, patients and the
administrative assemblages of the majority of their importing countries. The bundling and the
presentation of the results of Bangladesh are practically identical to any worldwide standard. However,
the market of multivitamin and multi‐mineral in Bangladesh is one of the major composite of the entire
pharmaceutical industry. The market is on gradual development and so is the production. The use of
multivitamins and multiminerals is on rapid increase for health care purposes. Studies on prescribing
pattern of multi‐vitamin and multi‐mineral and others have shown that the market has significant growth
potentials and there comes the scope of one of the leading pharmaceuticals in the country‐Square
pharmaceutical. SQUARE Pharmaceuticals Limited (SPL) is the main marked nonexclusive
pharmaceutical maker in the nation creating quality vital and other moral medications and meds. Since
1985, SPL is the top organization among the national and multinational pharmaceutical organizations
working in the business sector. The fundamental focus is to dissect the market of multivitamins and
multiminerals and finding out a business scope for square pharmaceuticals. Data used to set up this
report has been gathered mainly from the secondary sources . Some primary data was gathered from the
product executives working in SPL's Product Management Department for pertinent remedial classes. Distinctive sites were additionally utilized for data on the pharmaceutical business overall and
Bangladesh. Absence of time and specialized learning and information inaccessibility were the real
impediments for this report planning.
The report emphasizes on defining the components and preparation of multivitamin and multi‐mineral
and their consumption habit and the evaluation of the domestic market of multiminerals and the market
scope and potentials that square can pursue. The Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) is
the national medication administrative power which is under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
DGDA directs all exercises identified with import and fare of crude materials, bundling materials,
creation, deal, evaluating, authorizing, and enrollment of a wide range of prescription including those of
Ayurvedic, Unani, home grown and homeopathic systems. The Pharmacy Council of Bangladesh (PCB)
was built up under the Pharmacy Ordinance Act in 1976 to control the drug store hone in Bangladesh.
The Bangladesh Pharmaceutical Society is partnered with the International Pharmaceutical Federation
and Commonwealth Pharmaceutical Association. The National Drug Policy (2005) states that the World
Health Organization's present Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) ought to be entirely taken after and
that assembling units will be consistently assessed by the DDA. Other key regulation components are
confinements on imported medications (where these are delivered by four or more neighborhood firms),
a prohibition on nearby creation of around 1,700 medications that are considered trivial or hurtful and
strict value controls on somewhere in the range of 117 chief medicines.