Aspen Holdings News

Cape Town – JSE Limited-listed Aspen Pharmacare (APN), South Africa’s largest pharmaceutical company, was presented with the Economic Diplomacy (Africa) Award by the South African Government at the prestigious 4th annual Ubuntu Awards, held in Cape Town on 22 March 2018. Accepting the award from Lindiwe Sisulu, Minister of International Relations and Cooperations (“Dirco”) on…

Johannesburg – JSE Limited listed Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Limited (APN), a leading global pharmaceutical company, has announced favourable results for the six months ended 31 December 2017. Aspen Interim Results release March 2018

Aspen Pharmacare billionaire Steven Saad opens up with the inside story of the fall of his shares. Exclusive on CNBC Africa first in business worldwide. CNBC Exclusive with Aspen CEO Stephen Saad from Aspen Pharmacare Pty Limited on Vimeo.

Johannesburg – JSE Limited listed Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Limited (APN), a leading global pharmaceutical company, has announced pleasing results for the year ended 30 June 2017. Download (PDF 86.7KB)

Price gouging is not in Aspen’s DNA, says founder Stephen Saad, incensed at the thought that his company would exploit the sick. But Aspen’s predicament, and that of all drug firms, boils down to the tension between a drug company’s perceived responsibility to provide life-saving drugs to patients at a reasonable price, and its natural…

One of Aspen’s key business imperatives is the creation of stakeholder value. The communities Aspen operates within remain amongst the Group’s most important stakeholders, with healthcare being one of the key aspects to ensuring sustainable communities. While South Africa is currently burdened with one of the world’s most disproportionate disease profiles, it also has enthusiastic…

Durban – JSE Limited-listed Aspen Pharmacare (APN), a leading pharmaceutical company in the southern hemisphere, has welcomed the statement issued by the Democratic Alliance (“DA”) earlier today in which it has confirmed that it is satisfied that there is no evidence that Aspen has engaged in alleged anti-competitive behavior as per the DA’s statement issued…

Windhoek, Namibia – JSE Limited listed Aspen Pharmacare (APN), a leading pharmaceutical company in the southern hemisphere, has announced that a memorandum of understanding (“M.O.U”) has been concluded between Aspen’s Russian business and the Vladivostok Far Eastern Federal University (“F.E.F.U”). The Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Mr. Yury Trutnev, who has delegated authority from the…

Having noted the report published in The Times of London on 20 May 2017 titled “Massive price rise for vital drug put pets’ lives at risk”, Aspen wishes to express its disappointment and concern that much of the information and clarification it provided to The Times’ Billy Kenber prior to the report being published has…

Aspen confirms that the European Commission has opened proceedings to investigate certain actions of Aspen Holdings and certain of its European subsidiaries. While Aspen is not currently in a position to comment on these proceedings, it reaffirms its commitment to fair and open competition in markets in the European Union and around the world. Aspen…

Durban – Media reports that the Competition Commission has decided to take up the Democratic Alliance’s request to investigate the alleged anti-competitive conduct of Aspen Pharmacare (“Aspen”) in South Africa, in its preliminary investigation into the pharmaceutical sector, has reference. Aspen welcomes the process and the opportunity to categorically set aside such allegations of anti-competitive…

In reference to the articles reported in the European press on 14 and 15 April 2017, Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Limited (“Aspen”) has the following comments: Aspen has clearly demonstrated its commitment to providing quality medicines affordably over many years. The supply of the oncology products in question is no exception. Aspen’s status as a responsible…