Takeda-Shire In India: Sleeping Giant?
Executive Summary
Will Takeda take a less measured approach in India, where Shire brings it a significant on-market portfolio? Scrip outlines the current shape of things in the promising but complex emerging market as the two companies head towards combining forces globally.
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