OMRON Asia Pacific PTE LTD Philippine Branch will be working with pharmaceutical sales and distribution company Metro Drug Inc. to broaden its distribution network for OMRON Healthcare Philippines’ blood pressure monitors, nebulizers, thermometers, body composition monitors and TENS massagers. Through the partnership, OMRON products will now be available in independent pharmacies, hospitals and other medical institutions nationwide.
[L-R] Frans Velkers, chief operating officer of OMRON Healthcare Asia Pacific Region, and Jannette Jakosalem, chief executive of Metro Drug, at the signing of the MoA on the distribution partnership.
The newly forged collaboration with Metro Drug is part of OMRON’s aggressive expansion plans in line with its goal of boosting its share of the local healthcare market. Metro Drug has more than 50 principal local and multinational partners, 28,000 accounts nationwide and 100 percent coverage of relevant market.
“OMRON Healthcare is dedicated to its mission of improving lives and contributing to a better society. In line with this, we work rigorously to ensure that our state-of-the-art products are conveniently accessible to every Filipino, thus allowing them to take charge of their health in the comfort of their own homes. We are happy that our partnership with Metro Drug lets us reach more customers across the country,” shares Frans Velkers, chief operating officer of OMRON Healthcare Asia Pacific Region.
The partnership will broaden Metro Drug’s medical device portfolio. “We are delighted to welcome the world-renowned OMRON Healthcare products into the Metro Drug family. Our kababayans deserve only the best, especially when it comes to healthcare, and we are confident that with OMRON, we can offer them the top-caliber devices they need and deserve,” shares the Chief Executive of Metro Drug, Janette Jakosalem.
For more information on OMRON Healthcare, customers may visit https://www.omronhealthcare-ap.com/ph.
About OMRON HEALTHCARE Co., Ltd.
Committed to improving people’s lives, OMRON HEALTHCARE provides clinically proven, innovative medical equipment for health monitoring and therapy. Our product portfolio includes blood pressure monitors, nebulizers, electronic thermometers, blood glucose monitors and activity counters as well as body composition monitors and professional medical devices. For many decades, OMRON’s devices have helped people prevent, treat and manage lifestyle diseases both at home and in clinical practice in more than 100 countries in the world. OMRON HEALTHCARE Group is headquartered in Muko City, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan.
To learn more, please visit OMRON’s website at https://www.omronhealthcare-ap.com and the official OMRON Healthcare Philippines Facebook page.
About Metro Drug
Metro Drug Inc. (MDI) in its present structure came to be in 1997. Previously, MDI was known as MDDI – a joint venture company held by The Zuellig Corp. and Marsman & Co., Inc. MDDI was in the business of both consumer goods distribution and pharmaceutical distribution. In 1997, the pharmaceutical business split off, and Metro Drug Inc. was formed as a result. Two years later, in 1999, the senior management structure was changed to what it is today: a lean, flat organization enabled to move rapidly in response to customers’ changing needs and demands.
Pharmaceutical Sales and Distribution is Metro Drug’s principal activity. The organization has positioned itself to become one of the largest and most efficient distributors of pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostics and healthcare products.
