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healthcare<br />
Kalbe Farma<br />
Creating Strong Footprints<br />
There have been umpteen stories of extraordinary successes, still that of Kalbe Farma<br />
is immensely inspiring, as though it is today the leading pharmaceutical company in<br />
Indonesia, it started in a garage. However it has focused on expanding continuously<br />
and has transformed itself to become a provider of an integrated healthcare solution<br />
In the last more than 50<br />
years, Kalbe Farma has<br />
grown both organically<br />
and through mergers<br />
& acquisitions, and has<br />
four business divisions: the<br />
Prescription Pharmaceutical<br />
Division, Consumer Health<br />
Division, Nutritionals Division<br />
and Distribution and Logistics<br />
Division.<br />
Through its business<br />
divisions it has created<br />
impressive verticals of<br />
prescription pharmaceuticals<br />
and OTC drugs, energy drink<br />
and nutrition products, as<br />
well as a robust distribution<br />
arm serving over one million<br />
outlets across Indonesia’s<br />
vast archipelago.<br />
continuous innovation<br />
Out of Indonesia, Kalbe<br />
Farma has established robust<br />
footprints in all ASEAN<br />
countries, and also in Nigeria,<br />
and South Africa. As a result<br />
it has emerged as a national<br />
pharmaceutical company in<br />
Indonesia with a competitive<br />
edge in the export market.<br />
It has also focused on<br />
innovations since its founding,<br />
and has grown its business<br />
on a strong foundation<br />
of innovations. It has<br />
established robust research<br />
and development activities<br />
in leading-edge generic drug<br />
formulation and continuous<br />
development of innovative<br />
consumer and nutritional<br />
products. Through strategic<br />
alliances with international<br />
partners, Kalbe have also<br />
started to support several<br />
successful research and<br />
development ventures working<br />
on cancer drugs, stem cells<br />
and biotechnology research.<br />
Currently, it employs 17,000<br />
employees, and has become<br />
the largest healthcare provider<br />
in Indonesia, with unrivalled<br />
marketing, branding,<br />
distribution, financial strength<br />
and research and development<br />
expertise.<br />
Working for the Society<br />
As a responsible company,<br />
Kalbe Farma shares its<br />
benefits of growth with all<br />
stakeholders, feeling that CSR<br />
is much more than simply<br />
corporate philanthropy. This<br />
includes its efforts to protect<br />
the environment, and apart<br />
from funding and initiating<br />
many CSR projects, it also<br />
invites its employees to take<br />
part in activities to support<br />
the community, thereby<br />
positioning these projects not<br />
simply as activities from the<br />
top but as an organizationwide<br />
calling to build a better<br />
world.<br />
In CSR, it is involved with<br />
Community Development,<br />
Commitment to Environment<br />
Protection, Fair & Responsible<br />
Labor Practices, etc.<br />
174 | ASIA ONE | april-mAY <strong>2018</strong>
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