Parapharmaceutical Products In Italy

This report supplies information on the parapharmaceutical products Italian market and its competitors: market trends, SWOT and key success factors analysis, major companies performance indicators (total turnover, sector specific turnover, market shares and export quotas), business prospects and trends.

Scope

Use: medical devices for surgical and post-surgical use and for medication.

Client Groups: the parapharmaceutical sector has three main sales channels:

• Hospital structures (hospital companies, ASL and other entities, and private clinics);
• Pharmacies;
• Mass market (large-scale/organised distribution, parapharmacies and sanitary, orthopaedic and non-specialised retailers).

Segments

The market analysis is based on three business areas, each segmented according to specific use:

1. Medications:

• traditional, advanced and specialised medications;
• adhesive bandages;
• cotton

2. Medical Devices and Auxiliaries:

• catheters;
• stoma bags;
• syringes;

3. Dermatological Skin Products:

• disinfectants;
• anti-parasites;
• corn products and corn plasters.

The gauzes, bandages and medications and disinfectants segments do not include OTC-registered (self-medication) products. The sales analysis of the disinfectants segment refers solely to the hospital channel.

The report does not cover diagnostic, suture and laparoscopy products or cosmetics (covered in other Databank reports). It also excludes gloves, thermometers, urine containers, galenical products for generic use (petroleum jelly, alcohol, etc.), incontinency and orthopaedic products.

Methodology

Databank’s methodology for Competitors reports begins with a careful screening to identify the main organisations that are representative of a given sector. Several one-to-one interviews are then conducted with the selected organisations. Questionnaires are sent to all the leading companies on an annual basis. The information collected is then verified by an expert in the particular sector using a system of counterchecks to guarantee that the information is entirely reliable and consistent. The process is then completed using Cerved Group’s proprietary information about Italian enterprises. All Competitors reports also include details concerning the strategies and performances of the leading companies in each sector.

Wherever no specific source is indicated, the information published in these reports can be assumed to have been taken from Cerved Group’s proprietary information bank. Coverage of any sector in Competitors products may be used in company presentations or in training courses on the subject.