In this issue, Top Team proposes five themes to a professional of the pharmaceutical industry for him to talk briefly about. The guest of this edition is José Ricardo Mendes, the general director of Ache, who has recently received some journalists for an interview. “We are known as the market byers” , he says. Follow it below:

Top Team: Exportation.

José Ricardo Mendes: In 2007 we are going to export approximately seven million dollars. In 2008, this number will reach fifteen million.

Top Team: Start-up Capital.

José Ricardo Mendes: Ache is ready in technical terms to raise start-up capital. However, I can´t say when it is going to happen because it depends on several things.

Top Team: Acquisitions.

José Ricardo Mendes: We are known as the market byers. In 2003, we acquired Asta Médica and in 2005 Biosintética. We have searched for selective acquisitions and for purchasing laboratories in order to ge into new markets.

Top Team: Aché main goals.

José Ricardo Mendes: To be the best and the most profitable company of the sector. Our last financial results prove that we´ve been on the right way.

Top Team: Launches in 2007.

José Ricardo Mendes: For this year, we are going to have twenty-five launches, five are prescription drugs while twenty are generics.