BioGaia has signed a long-term agreement with Aché, for the exclusive rights to
sell BioGaia’s probiotic drops and tablets in Brazil. The products will be co
-branded and launch is planned to mid 2014.
Aché is one of the three most important pharmaceutical companies in Brazil. The
company manufactures and promotes more than 280 prescription, OTC and generic
drugs and has 3 300 employees, whereof more than 1 600 belong to the sales force
of medical representatives. Brazilian physicians rank Aché as number one of the
pharmaceutical companies.
”We are pleased to engage in an enduring collaboration with BioGaia, enabling
the launch of relevant products in the Brazilian market. The well-studied
probiotic products will address important unmet medical needs, especially in the
child health segment, and combined with the recognised country-wide footprint
and leadership of Aché, it will rapidly become an important therapeutic
alternative adopted by the physicians in Brazil”, says Celso Sustovich,
Executive Director of Aché.
“Our focus on the BRIC-countries is giving results. Brazil is a very important
market and both our drops and tablets are already registered there after a long
and difficult process. We are convinced that Brazil will become one of our most
important markets within a not too distant future”, says Peter Rothschild,
President BioGaia.
Both the BioGaia ProTectis baby drops and the BioGaia ProTectis tablets contain
BioGaia’s patented and well-researched probiotic strain Lactobacillus reuteri
Protectis. Today the drops are sold in 60 countries and the tablets in around 50
countries around the world.
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BioGaia has published this information in accordance with the Swedish Securities
Market Act. The information was issued for publication on 15 November 2013,
09:15 am CET.
For additional information please contact
Peter Rothschild, Chief Executive Officer, BioGaia: 46 8 555 293 00
BioGaia is a healthcare company that develops, markets and sells probiotic
products with documented health benefits. The products are primarily based on
the lactic acid bacterium Lactobacillus reuteri, which has probiotic, health
-enhancing effects. The class B share of the Parent Company BioGaia AB is quoted
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