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Europe’s Big Pharma Players Begin Tricky 2022 In Style

 
• By Kevin Grogan

Big pharma players have embraced a tricky operating environment in 2022 so far, treading a tightrope with political and financial challenges impacting their decision making and threatening to blow them off balance. However, what is not in doubt is the healthy growth experienced by those companies based around mainland Europe and the UK.  

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European pharma's first quarter financials have been delivered in a challenging and volatile operating environment, where the war in Ukraine and the impact of COVID-19 continue to have an impact, where inflation is up, as are energy and raw material costs and where political tensions are high.

Nevertheless, the continent's drugmakers delivered healthy growth in Q1. In the UK, AstraZeneca PLC continued to profit from the...

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