Cia de Distribn Integral Logista Hldg : Sanofi entrusts Logista Pharma with distributing its products in Spain

• Logista Pharma keeps boosting its growth in pharmaceutical distribution to Hospitals and Pharmacies.
• Logista Pharma will incorporate Sanofi's centre in Spain into its network of distribution centres.

Logista Pharma and Sanofi have signed an agreement by which Logista Pharma will take responsibility for distributing Sanofi products in Spain to Hospitals, Pharmacies, Health Centres and Wholesalers, among others, adding to the already in place in Canary Islands. The agreement, effective since October and providing for a progressive evolution, implies fully managing this distribution since January 2019.

Logista Pharma will also take responsibility of Sanofi's distribution centre in Spain located at Leganés and will incorporate the premise's staff. This centre is one of the largest in the country belonging to a single laboratory and manages an annual volume of 55 million units. The centre is equipped with cutting-edge technology allowing to manage products' location through a radiofrequency-identification system.

Logista Pharma, the Logista Group's company for specialized distribution and services to the pharmaceutical industry in Spain and Portugal, is registering a strong growth in recent years thanks to its growing services to laboratories and pharmacies, as well as the ongoing addition of new clients to its activity.

Logista Pharma is the undisputed leader in pharmaceutical distribution to hospitals, primary care centres and wholesalers, adding to its consolidated experience in distribution to pharmacies.

Sanofi is a worldwide biopharmaceutical company, focused on human health, from prevention, with vaccines, to innovating therapies for minority diseases or with wider reach and chronic. Sanofi is listed in the Paris Stock Exchange (EURONEXT: SAN) and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: SNY). It is present in over 100 countries and has over 100,000 employees and 20 research centres around the world.

Logista Pharma leans on the Logista Group's transport companies, Nacex, Integra2 and Logesta, to distribute pharmaceutical products in Spain and Portugal, including Balearic and Canary Islands, securing full operating integration, real time physical and thermal traceability, the highest quality standards and the use of cutting-edge information systems.

Logista is the leading distributor of products and services to proximity retailers in Southern Europe, reaching some 300,000 points of sale within capillary retail networks in Spain, France, Italy and Portugal, so facilitating the best and fastest market access to any kind of products.​