Pharmaceutical Industry

History

• The earliest drugstores date back to the Middle Ages

• The first known drugstore was opened by Arabian pharmacists in Baghdad in 754

• By the 19th century, many of the drug stores in Europe and North America had eventually developed into larger pharmaceutical companies.

• Most of today's major pharmaceutical companies were founded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The origin of medicines

Medicines of ancient civilizations

• The oldest records of medicinal preparations made from plants, animals, or minerals are those of the early Chinese, Hindu, and Mediterranean civilizations.

• An herbal compendium, said to have been written in the 28th century bc by the legendary emperor Shennong, described the antifever capabilities of a substance known as chang shan (from the plant species Dichroa febrifuga), which has since been shown to contain antimalarial alkaloids (alkaline organic chemicals containing nitrogen).

• Workers at the school of alchemy that flourished in Alexandria, Egypt, in the 2nd century bc prepared several ... (100 of 14077 words)

• Drug discovery is the process by which potential drugs are discovered or designed. In the past most drugs have been discovered either by isolating the active ingredient from traditional remedies or by serendipitous discovery.

• Drug development refers to activities undertaken after a compound is identified as a potential drug in order to establish its suitability as a medication. Objectives of drug development are to determine appropriate Formulation and Dosing, as well as to establish safety.

Indian pharmaceutical industry

• The Indian pharmaceutical industry is the world's second-largest by volume and is likely to lead the manufacturing sector of India.

• The first pharmaceutical company are Bengal Chemicals and Pharmaceutical Works, which still exists today as one of 5 government-owned drug manufacturers, appeared in Calcutta in 1930.

• The government started to encourage the growth of drug manufacturing by Indian companies in the early 1960s, and with the Patents Act in 1970

Indian Pharmaceutical Evolution

Phase II

Government Control

•Indian Patent Act –1970

•Drug prices capped

•Local companies begin to make an impact

Phase III Development Phase

•Process development

•Production infrastructure creation

•Export initiatives

Phase IV

Growth Phase

•Rapid expansion of domestic market

•International market development

•Research orientation

Phase V

Innovation and Research

•New IP law

•Discovery Research

•Convergence

1970 1980 1990 2000 2010

Phase I

Early Years

•Market share domination by foreign companies

•Relative absence of organized Indian companies

Patents and generics

• A chemical patent or pharmaceutical patent is a patent for an invention in the chemical or pharmaceuticals industry

• Depending on a number of considerations, a company may apply for and be granted a patent for the drug

Company Profile

History• Sree Mallikharjuna swamy pharmacy• S.M.S. Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd. Incorporated

on December 14, 1987 for the manufacture of Bulk Drugs.

• Mr. K G Suggula was our original promoter of our company.

• We had accumulated losses till 1990

• When current promoter’s viz. Mr. Ramesh Babu Potluri and Mr. T V V S N Murthy acquired the Company.

• On November 2, 1994 our company was converted to Public Limited Company from private limited and the name was changed to S.M.S. Pharmaceuticals Limited.

• started with 20 employees as a single unit and single product Company in 1990 and have now grown into a multi-location, multi-product Company with 4 units and 310 employees on rolls and four Units.

VISION • Being a quality conscious organization,

SMS vision circles around quality and customer satisfaction.

• SMS believes in delivering the best value to the customers in a most economic way.

• The efforts are aimed towards achieving our goals as well as providing value to the end user

Mission

• To develop new molecules and take them to market

• To set bench marks as a leading quality manufacturer

• To develop and patent cost effective process for API's, manufacture and market them in regulatory markets. 

• Manufacture & supply intermediates to patent holders in US & EU.

Objectives

• Current Focus: SMS is focused on API manufacturing and is the single largest producer of anti-ulcer products and is renowned among the clientele for the excellent quality of product and customer service

• We aim to become pioneers in the industry and forge everlasting relationships with customers in API

 Symbol

 Slogan

“Values Life,Values Quality”

Organization structure

CHAIRMAN & MANAGING DIRECTOR

P. RAMESH BABU

Mr. P. Ramesh Babu, a Post-graduate Technocrat, started his career in the year 1984 with Cheminor Drugs Ltd.

• Jt. Sec. of the Bulk Drug Manufacturers Association during 1999•Regional Chairman CHEMIXL for Hyderabad region in 2000.

•Member of Pharma Taskforce committee constituted by Chief Minster of Andhra Pradesh in the year 2003

Products

• API's and Intermediates

• Bio Products

• Inorganic Products

• Nutraceuticals

APIs• Anti Ulcer• Anti Fungal• Anti Migraine Fungal• Anti Cancer• Anti Hypertensive• Anti depressant• Anti Psychotic• Anti Obesity• Anti Parkinson

BIO PRODUCTS

• Solanesol

• Diosgenin

• 4-Hydroxyiosleucine

• Nicotnie Polacrilex Resin

INORGANICS

• Iron III Acetyl Acetonates

• Cobalt II Acetyl Acetonates

• Cobalt III Acetyl Acetonates

• Nickel II Acetyl Acetonates

• Copper II Acetyl Acetonates

Manufacturing units of SMS Pharma