Interview: GSK India's Playbook For Vaccines Dominance
Executive Summary
Deft pricing and effective physician engagement appear to have helped shape GSK's sustained dominance in the Indian self-pay vaccines market. GSK Pharmaceuticals India managing director, Annaswamy Vaidheesh, takes Scrip through some of the strategies at play including the sharp recalibration in the price of Synflorix and how the British multinational is harnessing digital technology to stay "close" to its customers.
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