Trandafir expects the same growth rate by the end of the year due to a plan implemented several years ago.
“In the first half of 2013 we sought to upgrade our fleet. We buy about 50 new vehicles every year. We opened a new warehouse in Brasov. We have six warehouses and only one of them still needs investments to upgrade it; we’ll begin construction work some time in the next few months,” Iulian Trandafir told ZF in an interview.
Farmexpert’s fleet numbers more than 170 vehicles.
The company posted EUR461 million revenue in 2012, according to the information on the Finance Ministry’s website and EUR19.4 million net profit. This is the highest profit made by a pharmaceutical wholesaler in 2012, after all.
“Farmexpert will remain the most profitable pharmaceutical wholesaler,” Trandafir said.
Farmexpert’s owner is Germany’s Alliance Healthcare Deutschland (formerly known as ANZAG), in turn held by UK’s Alliance Boots, one of the largest healthcare groups in the world. (EUR1=RON4.3895)
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)