Despite the coronavirus crisis affecting the sales of wholesalers, too, Dona Logistica plans to expand with a third pharmaceutical warehouse in 2020.
“Like the rest of the industries, the pharmaceutical wholesale market, too, is affected by the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The low foot traffic in pharmacies led to a decline in sales and implicitly in the volume of purchases from wholesalers,” Mihaela Ungureanu, Dona group CEO told ZF.
“We have the necessary flexibility, however, to preserve profitability despite shrinking revenue, taking into account the minimal operating expenses of the modern logistics model we use.”
Dona established its pharmaceutical warehouse in 2014, when the law required pharmaceutical companies to separate their retail and wholesale operations.
The company has a pharmaceutical warehouse in Ilfov, another one in Cluj and plans to open one more in Bacau, Moldavia, this year.
“We have completed furnishing the regional warehouse in Cluj and will open a third in Bacau. We also plan to increase our vehicle fleet and invest in process automation. The total investments estimated for 2020 is some EUR950,000.”
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)