Multinational drug-maker GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals expects to recover some lost ground with the revision of drug prices set to kick-in from this month. The company saw a 42 per cent fall in net profit at ₹96.54 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2014, compared with ₹169 crore in the corresponding period last year. Total income dipped 8 per cent from ₹713 crore in the quarter ended March 31, 2013, to ₹654 crore in quarter ended March 31, 2014. GSK Pharma’s India chief Hasit Joshipura said that a combination of factors including supply chain constrains in the international and local market had affected both pharmaceutical and vaccine segments.

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