Global Reach

Connecting Capabilities to Global Needs

The parent's commercial mandate is to open and hold markets that its operating companies can then supply. Manufacturing is one part of that chain; the registrations, the local representation and the route to the customer are the parts that decide whether the manufacturing has anywhere to go.

Primary Export Markets

Long-term supply networks.

Our strategic commercial expansion strategies are highly focused on establishing robust, long-term supply networks across key international regions, including:

01

The CIS Region

Delivering advanced formulations tailored to specific regulatory environments, including the Russian Federation.

02

Southeast Asia

Expanding distribution and healthcare access points throughout Vietnam and neighboring markets.

03

West Africa

Securing reliable, high-volume pharmaceutical supply chains across Ghana and Nigeria.

Regulatory pathways

What each market requires.

The CIS Region

Registration across the Eurasian Economic Union runs through a single harmonised procedure covering Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the Russian Federation. Since 1 January 2026 that procedure has applied across the union in full, so one accepted dossier carries the product into all five markets.

Amendments in force since June 2025 also widened the GMP basis: an applicant may support the file with a GMP certificate from an EAEU authority or an equivalent from the FDA, EMA or PMDA, undertaking to complete an EAEU inspection within three years of registration.

Authority
EAEU unified procedure
Dossier
EAEU CTD, Modules 1–5
GMP basis
EAEU, or FDA/EMA/PMDA equivalent
Local presence
Authorised representative in a member state
Statutory review
210 days, excluding clock stops

Southeast Asia

Vietnam assesses against the ASEAN Common Technical Dossier, so one dossier structure serves the market and, with country-specific annexes, its neighbours. Marketing authorisation is governed by Circular 32/2026/TT-BYT, issued on 29 July 2026 and effective from 1 October 2026, which replaces the circular that had applied since July 2025.

The Certificate of Pharmaceutical Product requirement has eased in successive revisions: a single CPP from the manufacturing country's authority, or from an EMA or stringent regulatory authority, and deferred submission is now permitted in defined cases.

Authority
Drug Administration of Vietnam
Dossier
ACTD, Parts I–IV
Governing rule
Circular 32/2026/TT-BYT
Local presence
Representative office required
Statutory review
12 months from submission

West Africa

Ghana's Food and Drugs Authority and Nigeria's NAFDAC both assess in ICH CTD format and both hold WHO Maturity Level 3. NAFDAC reached ML3 in 2022, the first national regulator in Africa to do so for medicines and vaccines, and had that status reaffirmed with effect from 30 June 2025.

Nigeria's documentary chain is heavier than most: the Certificate of Pharmaceutical Product and the GMP certificate must be authenticated by the Nigerian Mission in the country of origin, not merely notarised. Approval follows dossier review, inspection of the production facility and laboratory analysis before the Food and Drug Registration Committee issues the certificate, which runs five years and is renewable.

Authority
FDA Ghana · NAFDAC Nigeria
Dossier
ICH CTD with WHO CPP
Maturity level
WHO ML3, both regulators
Local presence
Registered local agent
Certificate validity
5 years, renewable (Nigeria)

Current as at August 2026; indicative, not contractual. Registration requirements and assessment timelines are set by each regulator and revised periodically — Vietnam's governing circular changed in July 2026 and the EAEU transition completed in January 2026. Confirm the current position with the relevant authority or local agent before relying on any detail above.

Why the registration holder matters

Whoever holds the registration holds the market.

In every one of these markets a foreign manufacturer is barred from holding the registration in its own name. It passes to an authorised representative, a local agent, or a locally established entity.

01

Marketing Authorisation holder

Holding the authorisation keeps the dossier, the brand and the customer relationship inside the group. Where a third-party distributor holds it instead, continued access to that market depends on that relationship continuing.

02

Local Technical Representative

Acting as the appointed representative in territories that require one — regulatory correspondence, pharmacovigilance obligations and post-marketing commitments handled directly rather than through an intermediary.

Market context

The base we build from.

India supplies roughly one in five generic medicines sold worldwide and ranks third globally in pharmaceutical production by volume.

US$31bn
India pharma exports, FY2025-26
US$8.10bn
Q1 FY2026-27, up 6.8%
3rd
Global production by volume
US$65bn
Industry export target, 2030

Export figures from the Pharmaceuticals Export Promotion Council (Pharmexcil), quarter to June 2026. The 2030 target is from Healing the World: Roadmap for Making India a Global Pharma Exports Hub, published by the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance, IDMA and Pharmexcil in February 2025. Figures describe the Indian industry, not the company.