Enter pharmaceutical distribution chains - Exit wholesalers?

Pharmaceutical wholesalers will have to adapt or die in a new environment w here pharmaceutical manufacturers increasingly club together to distribute their products through a single distribution chain. This is, of course, unl ess the wholesalers who had lodged a complaint with the Competition Board a gainst Synergistic Alliance Investments (Pty) Ltd (SAI) and International H ealthcare Distributors (IHD) accusing them of taking away their business an d threaten their livelihood, win their case. What will the impact be on dis pensing doctors, retail pharmacies and price? The following articles reflec t the different viewpoints.