大衆市場における医薬品卸売業の動向とドラッグストアとの取引の方向性

概要

論文の詳細を見る
Alliance of business or capital and mergers between companies happen frequently. these are several main factors. First is the expansion of volume in investment for the development of new medicine. Second, the profit and loss depends on the price of the medicine set by the government. Third is the domitnation of the transaction process based on enterprise size. These are two kinds of medicine, "Iryoyouiyakuhin"and "Ippanyouiyakuhin". The former are products supplied to hospitals, clinics, and pharmacies. The latter are products supplied to drugstores for patients to buy mainly without prescription. "Ippanyouiyakuhin" includes "Haichiyaku" which supplies private homes with medical supplies based on a periodic free. The focus in this paper is on "Ippanyouiyakuhin" OTC medicines not including "Haichiyaku"; and the trends of drug wholesale and the direction of transactions for drugstores. The volume of OTC sales, however, are only 10〜20 percent of whole medicine market. Therefore, it is necessary to refer to trends in the OTC market.