Healthcare Magazine September 2015 | Page 62

DROGUERIA INTI S . A .

Laboratory Drogueria INTI was founded in March 1936 , in the city of La Paz , Bolivia . Ernesto W . N . Schilling Huhn , created the company in order to cover one of the most important needs of Bolivians : “ accessibility to high quality medicines that were close to the community ”.

Although the company was founded under the name “ Drogueria Hamburgo ”, in 1947 they changed its name to Drogueria INTI SA . After raising brand recognition in the domestic market , the drugstore began internationalization practices by 1950 . Since then , INTI has been recognized in other global economies as a pharmaceutical brand with some of the highest manufacturing integration .
Drogueria INTI took a big corporate step after getting registered in the National Stock Exchange of Bolivia ( BBV ) to issue bonds through it . However , the company is still attached to the same structural values that have shaped the family company under the leadership of German visionary , Ernesto Schilling Huhn , almost 80 years ago .
Some of their main products are : Mentisan ( mentholated ointment , cough syrups , cough drops , flu medications ), VIMIN ( different vitamins and multivitamins in different forms ), tonic INTI ( multivitamin syrup with amino acids ) Pasuma ,
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