UMORU ABDULKADIR
A leading Pharmaceutical manufacturing and the first pharmaceutical company in the country, May & Baker Nigeria, has signed a partnership agreement with Sanofi Nigeria Limited – a subsidiary of French pharmaceutical giant, Sanofi to produce four brands of the latter.
The company in a statement Wednesday said the four Sanofi products, which would be manufactured by May & Baker Nigeria will be sold in Nigeria and West African markets, include Flagyl tablets and Suspension and Tarivid tablets, anti-infective medicines and Malareich tablets, an anti-malaria drug.
“This agreement not only serves as a direct response to the call by the National Agency for Foods and Drugs Administrations and Control (NAFDAC) for pharmaceutical brands owners to localise their production by using locally available capacity to produce quality products in the country but also a step forward in the nation’s quest for medicine security and self-sufficiency,’ the statement said.
This positions Nigeria as an exporter of the drugs that have interesting markets in West Africa. Apart from expanding the portfolio and services of May & Baker, Nigeria’s economy will also benefit in the trade partnership as it opens a new pharmaceutical market for both Nigeria and the company.
May & Baker is taking on the challenge of localising foreign brand products through its facility which it said can “produce six billion tablets and 37.5 million 60ml liquid medicines annually.”
Founded on September 4, 1944, May & Baker is the first pharmaceutical Manufacturing Company in Nigeria. After its establishment, it went through different ownership of foreign multinationals but became fully indigenous in 2002 having being listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange in 1994 where it has won the coveted award of sectoral leadership of Healthcare sector six times.
In 2008, the company was awarded the International Organization for Standardization (iSO) Quality, Management Certificate, in recognition of the conformity of her management system to best international standards which was further upgraded to NIS ISO 9001:2015 in 2017.
The company has won several other awards including the PMG – MAN awards for the attainment of WHO GMP.
In 2018, May & Baker also won the highly coveted National productivity Order of Merit award
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