CJB is a specialist healthcare communications company. The Agency works with leading healthcare companies and government to develop high quality, integrated communication programmes.

CJB works across all traditional healthcare target audiences: specialists, GPs, pharmacists, pharmacy assistants and consumers.

The Agency has grown steadily since it was established in 1987, and enjoys long term relationships with some of Australia's leading pharmaceutical manufacturers.

Euro RSCG Life is a new breed of healthcare communications agency. An Agency built upon the sought-after blend of healthcare expertise with mainstream creative power.

Every client's brand team has at its core, specialists in healthcare surrounded by mainstream strategists and creative teams, working together across all key communication disciplines from Advertising, DM and Digital, through Data, Sales Promotion and Design.

Hammond & Thackeray was founded in 1983 and now have offices in Sydney, Melbourne & Auckland. We are affiliated with FCB worldwide with 190 offices in 104 countries and are part of the Interpublic Group. H&T Sydney provides full service capabilities including strategic planning, creative, media, studio and production.

We specialise in communication with GPs, specialists, pharmacists and consumers/patients. Our list of clients include: Abbott, Auspharm, AstraZeneca, Bayer, Bristol Myers Squibb, Boehringer Ingelheim, Boots Healthcare, Chemeq, CSL, DuPont, Eli Lilly, Paul Hartman, Johnson & Johnson Medical, Medical Research Trust, Merial, Merck Sharp & Dohme Australia, National Bank, Novartis, Pfizer Pharmaceutical Group, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, Pfizer Animal Health, Ridley Ag Products, Q-Med, Synthes, UCB Pharma, Vital Health Foods, Wyeth & Yates.

Ursa is Australia's largest independent healthcare agency. We offer fresh, invigorating thinking, and tailor our approach to the needs of your business.

Partners who own the business, work on your business. We believe every campaign should offer a measurable return on creative. Not only sales effectiveness, but also brand properties, process of development, cut through and longevity of the campaign.

Our strengths include specialized customer retention and compliance strategies, and unique creative solutions. Our clients include Schering-Plough Consumer Healthcare, Roche, GlaxoSmithKline, Novartis and Merck Sharpe and Dohme.

Catalent is a licensed manufacturer of therapeutic goods and an active member of ASMI, offering:

• Custom development, formulation and manufacture of softgel, tablets and hardshells.
• Unit packing into glass bottles, HDPE bottles and blisters
• Broad range of Rx, OTC, vitamins, minerals, nutritionals and herbals
• Stability and other testing

Founded in 1986, CPSA provides high quality packaging and technical support services to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries in our modern facility.

CPSA holds licenses with the TGA and APVMA.

CPSA can provide the following services:

• Blister packing (including Aluform) and blister sealing;
• Bottle filling of tablets and capsules;
• Liquid and cream filling into bottles, jars and tubes;
• Labelling, shrink-wrapping, cello-wrapping, tamper-evident label application and cartoning;
• Custom packaging;
• Release for Supply.

CPSA will work closely with clients as an extension of their own team and facility to ensure the product is of the highest quality and at the same time cost-effective.

Lipa Pharmaceuticals is a TGA licensed contract manufacturer that can produce non-sterile prescription medicines, over-the-counter and nutritional products in both solid and liquid dosage forms.

We have the capabilities to produce uncoated, film coated and enteric-coated tablets. We also have the expertise and capabilities to produce powders, hard shells, liquids and creams.

Mentholatum Australasia Pty Ltd offers contract manufacturing services in the following categories:

• Manufacture of creams, lotions, liquids and gels
• Manufacture of flammable liquids and gels
• Bottle filling of liquids and semi-solids
• Tube filling of plastic, laminate and metal tubes
• Chocolate-based therapeutic manufacture and packing

50 years TGA experience at your service

Archer Emery and Associates provides advice and assistance to companies that import, manufacture or sell medicines

Paul Archer, Julie Emery, Alan Duff and Ruby Campbell have a wealth of experience in the pharmaceutical industry including a combined 50 years with the TGA. We know and understand TGA legislation, procedures and systems because we helped design them.

Our experience will help achieve your goals quickly and cost-effectively:

• New product concepts
• Relationships with the TGA and Medsafe
• Product and variation applications
• Manufacturing and GMP of medicines
• Scheduling of medicines
• Preparation for the ANZTPA
• On-the-job staff training and mentoring
• Technical and label review

Our expertise includes:

• commercial agreements;
• patents, trademarks and copyright;
• clinical trials, registration and listing;
• manufacturing, labelling and marketing;
• poison scheduling;
• advertising including the TGAC, industry codes and trade practices;
• reimbursement and pricing;
• privacy and data protection;
• compliance and appeal mechanisms

IMS Australia was established in 1961 and is part of the global IMS network with offices in over 100 countries. With over 40 years of experience in Australia IMS is a leading source of Pharmaceutical information and analysis.

Our customers include a wide range of organisations spanning from the Ethical, Self-medication and Biotech industries to medical researchers, public health authorities, and educators.

IMS offers services that include Market Data, Primary/Secondary Research, Forecasting, Training and Management Consulting. These services support our clients in optimizing their portfolios, ensuring successful product launches, managing brands, and improving the effectiveness of sales teams.

To find out more visit our website or contact us on: +61 2 9805 6800.

The Nielsen Company is a global information and media company with leading market positions and recognised brands in marketing information (ACNielsen), media information (Nielsen Media Research), business publications (Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Adweek), trade shows and the newspaper sector (Scarborough Research).

The privately held company has more than 42,000 employees and is active in more than 100 countries, with headquarters in Haarlem, the Netherlands, and New York, USA.

For more information, please visit, http://www.nielsen.com/.

Contract Services

• Temporary marketing resource for overloads, leave vacancies or stop-gaps
• Project work
• All major channels covered: pharmacy/grocery/Rx/specialty

• NPD development and project management
• Feasibility and market assessments
• Marketing, Business and Launch plans
• Marketing Planning

Oz Pharma’s principal is Anne-Marie Watson, a sales and marketing executive with 20 years experience in the ANZ healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. Oz Pharma offers high quality and confidential service, at competitive rates.

Remedies works in partnership with pharmaceutical companies to distribute single-doses of their products and in doing so affords them:

• Unique product sampling opportunities;
• Access to new sales channels (particularly in the ‘route-trade’); and
• Inclusion and association with other high quality brands

50 years TGA experience at your service

Archer Emery and Associates provides advice and assistance to companies that import, manufacture or sell medicines

Paul Archer, Julie Emery, Alan Duff and Ruby Campbell have a wealth of experience in the pharmaceutical industry including a combined 50 years with the TGA. We know and understand TGA legislation, procedures and systems because we helped design them.

Our experience will help achieve your goals quickly and cost-effectively:

• New product concepts
• Relationships with the TGA and Medsafe
• Product and variation applications
• Manufacturing and GMP of medicines
• Scheduling of medicines
• Preparation for the ANZTPA
• On-the-job staff training and mentoring
• Technical and label review

Our development services include:

• Product formulation and pilot batching. Analytical development --methods and validation
• Stability testing --4 walk-in stability ovens
• Clinical Trial preparation and management
• Dermatological claim substantiation --SPF, instrumental measurement, toxicity testing
• Registered Compounding Pharmacy on site

Our facilities include:

• A modern, well equipped formulating laboratory
• Pilot batching equipment
• Analytical laboratory
• Skin Test Clinic
• Compounding Dispensary
  

Cube is a Sydney-based independent public relations agency working across the health, lifestyle and nutrition arena. We are proud to offer – through our team’s individual and pooled expertise – a truly unrivalled skillset in Australia. Our consultants range from ex-journalists and PR majors to science graduates and medical writers, all determined to be visionary and break from tradition with every project and campaign. And journalists listen to us because our campaigns are credible, intelligent and creative. Cube has extended affiliations within the UK, US and Asia-Pacific PR network.

Visit our new media portal CUBISM, providing our thoughts and perspectives on a range of topics.

You can follow us on Twitter.

Become a ‘fan’ of Cube on Facebook.

Palin Communications is a boutique Australian public relations consultancy operating exclusively in the healthcare sector. It was established in mid 1997 and now has grown to be one of the most professional specialist healthcare consultancies in the country.
The company focuses primarily on the areas of healthcare media relations, pharmacy relationship programs, strategic communications planning, medical issues/crisis management and social marketing campaigns.

Palin Communications has specific expertise in the OTC environment. It also provides strategic counsel and media relations services to major corporations operating in the ethical, health insurance, medical indemnity and healthcare information technology sectors

Pathway International is a privately owned, Sydney based company offering a comprehensive range of high quality botanical extracts and specialty healthcare ingredients to the Complementary Medicine Industry.

Pathway International is considered as being the leading supplier of standardised botanical extracts with in-house capabilities to formulate products, which can be supported by technical and marketing packages. This allows the sponsor to promote the features and benefits of the formulation with confidence that the claims can be fully supported.

Pathway International exclusively represents leading manufacturers such as Indena (Italy), Horphag (Switz.), Lyc-O-Red (Israel), Kemin Foods (USA), Natural Remedies (India), Cran-Max® (USA) and Pharmachem’s Phase 2™ (USA).

Established in 2000, Cynergy Search is a privately owned Australian company which specialises in recruiting executives for the health care sector.

We are a discreet and highly ethical organisation whose reputation has been built on developing trust between our candidates and clients.

In an environment where the very best talent only responds to a personal approach we are able to present the right opportunity to the right candidate and make a compelling argument for change.

Our focus is on our extensive network of candidates who rely on us to offer impartial advice and to guide their careers with honesty and integrity.

Clients come to us because we offer a long-term solution to their requirements for top talent.

Anthea Steans is a Consultant with more than 30 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry providing professional, confidential and timely regulatory consulting services for Australia and New Zealand. Advice and assistance provided in the following area:

• Product registration
• Medical devices
• Claims substantiation
• Advertising complaints
• Specialising in all aspects of switch including
• Strategic development and implementation
• Data requirements
• Dossier preparation
• Lobbying
• Personalised in-house training of staff

50 years TGA experience at your service

Archer Emery and Associates provides advice and assistance to companies that import, manufacture or sell medicines

Paul Archer, Julie Emery, Alan Duff and Ruby Campbell have a wealth of experience in the pharmaceutical industry including a combined 50 years with the TGA. We know and understand TGA legislation, procedures and systems because we helped design them.

Our experience will help achieve your goals quickly and cost-effectively:

• New product concepts
• Relationships with the TGA and Medsafe
• Product and variation applications
• Manufacturing and GMP of medicines
• Scheduling of medicines
• Preparation for the ANZTPA
• On-the-job staff training and mentoring
• Technical and label review

Consulting services to the non-prescription medicines and complementary medicine sectors and associated advertising, publishing and public relations organisations.

• Advice on regulatory projects and strategy development
• Advice on labelling and claim compliance
• Advertising and promotional strategy consulting
• Technical writing
  

Engel, Hellyer & Partners has been established for more than 18 years and provides a wide range of technical and regulatory services to the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, nutritional and agricultural/ veterinary industries.

Our team of consultants with over one hundred years of experience provides a personalised service with high standards of quality, ethics and professionalism. We advise on all aspects of regulatory issues including all types of TGA application:

• OTC medicines, sunscreen, herbal
• Vitamin & mineral products
• Prescription medicines
• Medical devices
• NICNAS applications
• NRA applications
• Labelling, promotional material

Sue Akeroyd and Associates are consultants and regulatory strategists, to the therapeutic, personal health care, and food industries; specialising in the regulatory requirements of OTC and complementary medicines, and the food/drug/cosmetic interfaces. SA&A provides highest quality service by maintaining leading edge understanding of regulatory environments, coupled with concomitant investment in extensive resources. SA&A is a member of all relevant trade associations.

Services provided include medicine and medical device Listing or Registration, ARTG record revalidation, TGA, CMEC and NICNAS substance applications/notifications as well as product and claims review, label review (incl. cosmetics, foods) and data sourcing. Training programs are offered for new staff, or management, or specialist topics (eg complementary medicine evidence review). Available for ad hoc and project work.

National Pharmacies is a highly respected South Australian based organisation, which has been caring for the community since 1911. National Pharmacies is the trading name of the Friendly Society Medical Association Limited. We are a mutual organisation where profits are returned to our members in the form of benefits and discounts.

For over 90 years National Pharmacies’ membership benefits, unique brand of personalised attention and extensive selection of products and services were available exclusively in South Australia. Today our operations include pharmacies in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales. We pride ourselves on providing high quality customer service to both members and the public. We offer a wide range of products and services, most of which are available through our online pharmacy.

Mercurial specialise in Sales Force Effectiveness & Marketing Effectiveness projects, typical examples include Commercial Excellence (MiPortal Services: web based, rapid, visual, interactive solutions); Business Intelligence/Reporting Services - data warehousing, integration, ETL, data mapping and outsourced automated reporting.

Mercurial’s highly customised solutions assist clients to implement and execute sales strategies much more effectively than has historically been possible, through better customer targeting, call planning and enhanced sales force productivity. These are all significant drivers of sales growth, sales force ROI and performance excellence.

Contact Mercurial to enhance the quality and velocity of your commercial decision making, where it matters most – at the customer interface.

Through our global network of offices, NZTE works to connect international businesses and investors with New Zealand business opportunities.

New Zealand encourages direct investment by and trade with international companies and business people, particularly those that result in the creation of new ventures, the relocation of existing operations to New Zealand, and strategic partnerships and joint ventures with New Zealand companies.

Our focus is on New Zealand businesses and industry sectors with high growth potential.
As your partner to conducting business or seeking investment opportunities in New Zealand we are able to:

• help with introductions to businesses
• provide information on quality products and services that might be of interest to you
• provide information on opportunities in New Zealand that might be of interest to you
• provide information on the New Zealand business environment and compliance issues
• provide market analysis, research and information
• act as your main government point of contact and advise you of any financial assistance that might be available.