South Asia’s largest pharma event, CPhI & PMEC India will be commemorating its 10th successful year with India Pharma Week, a week-long celebration packed with avant-garde events prior to the expo. Currently in its tenth year, the expo has grown from a three-day exhibition to a show spanning a week, November 17-23, 2016.

Though traditionally it is a three - day exhibition occurring at the Bombay Exhibition Centre (BEC), this year, for the first time, CPhI & P-MEC India (Nov 21 to 23) will be held concurrently at two venues- BEC & the MMRDA Grounds, Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC).

While celebrating a decade of CPhI India, the India Pharma Week will hold more than 10 events & activities taking place across the city of Mumbai focusing on business, knowledge, leadership, innovation, recognition and networking in the field of Pharma. The week will include a Pre-Connect Congress; Women in Pharma – Power Breakfast; the India Pharma Awards; Networking Evening; Plant Visits, Pharma Leaders’ Golf; the CPhI & P-MEC India Exhibition, a closed door CEO Roundtable and many more activities.

Incepted in 2006, the CPhI & P-MEC India exhibition has grown remarkably larger over the years with exhibitors and visitors engaging over significant levels of business. This year's event will see more than 1,300 exhibitors, a 100 plus countries’ participation and close to 40,000 attendees spread across the two locations in Mumbai. While BEC will have traditional participants for CPhI and P-MEC, the concurrent venue – BKC will also include participants for ICSE & BioPh.

Says Yogesh Mudras, Managing Director, UBM India , "CPhI & P-MEC 2016 is perfectly placed to provide a most comprehensive industry platform for every company that deals with pharmaceuticals in India. We have consistently received an overwhelming response from the participants. This year, we are extremely excited about the innovations we are bringing to the expo, which will simultaneously be held at the Bombay Exhibition Centre as well as the MMRDA grounds, BKC. In addition to the Pre- Connect Congress and CEO Roundtable the introd uction of ‘India Pharma Exporters - Collector's Edition’ & ‘The World of P-MEC - Collector's Edition’ will bring in more insightful exchanges amongst the industry veterans and stalwarts".

“CPhI is UBM's flagship engagement platform and the world's leading pharmaceutical networking event. If pharmaceutical key players have to congregate to connect, share and ideate then CPhI is the single largest global platform for them to do so.” he further added.

Originating from CPhI Worldwide - CPhI India was introduced in 2006. In less than a decade CPhI & P-MEC India have become South Asia's leading Pharma meeting place covering every step of the supply chain from drug discovery to finished dosage.

CPhI India is an industry platform for CROs, CMOs and manufacturers of API, Generics, Excipients and Drug formulation, Fine chemicals, Biosimilars, Finished Formulations, Lab chemicals and Biotechnology. Whereas, P-MEC includes manufacturers of Pharma Machinery and Equipment, Analytical Equipment, Automation & Robotics, Packaging Equipment & Supplies, Plant/Facility Equipment, Automation & Controls, Processing Equipment, RFID, Tableting / Capsule fillers, Clean room equipment, Filling equipment and Laboratory products.

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