Hero of Hearts Chapter 1143: Ancient Recipes & Modern Rivals – Wei’s Pharmacy’s Stomach Medicine Showdown!
Welcome back, devoted readers! Chapter 1143 plunges us into the cutthroat world of pharmaceuticals, as Charlie uncovers a surprising challenge facing Wei’s Pharmacy.
Chapter Highlights
- Charlie investigates Wei’s Pharmacy’s recent performance, uncovering a significant obstacle in their market expansion plans.
- Liang reveals their ambitious new Chinese patent medicine for stomach ailments is facing an unexpected and formidable competitor.
- An international rival, Kobayashi Pharmaceuticals, has cleverly optimized an ancient Chinese prescription, giving them an unfair edge in the stomach medicine market.
Chapter FAQ
Q: What new product is Wei’s Pharmacy focusing on, and what challenge does it face?
A: Wei’s Pharmacy is developing a new Chinese patent medicine for stomach issues like pain and acid, based on ancient recipes. However, they’ve been outmaneuvered by Kobayashi Pharmaceuticals, who launched a superior product first.
Q: How did Kobayashi Pharmaceuticals gain an advantage over Wei’s Pharmacy?
A: Kobayashi Pharmaceuticals managed to obtain an ancient Chinese prescription and, surprisingly, optimized it to create a ‘stomach powder’ with better efficacy than Wei’s upcoming medicine, thus dominating the market.
Chapter 1143
Seeing that Liang was a little nervous, Charlie smiled indifferently, turned off the topic and asked, “By the way, how are you doing at Wei’s Pharmacy?”
Liang looked straight and reported: “Mr. Wade, the overall development of the pharmaceutical factory has been fairly stable recently, but it has encountered some obstacles in developing new markets.”
“What’s in the way?”
Charlie wondered, according to the strength of Wei’s Pharmaceutical, it should be mentioned that there are few rivals in the domestic pharmaceutical industry.
nevertheless, for the development of new drugs, as long as a good prescription is found, there should be no problem.
But if the prescription is not good, the strength of the pharmaceutical company is meaningless.
Liang hurriedly replied: “Recently, Wei’s Pharmaceuticals has invested heavily in developing a new Chinese patent medicine. The main effect is to drive away evil spirits and reduce dampness, cool the blood and relieve the core of the stomach, and treat stomach symptoms such as stomach pain, stomach acid, and retching. It has good curative effects.”
Charlie nodded and mentioned, “Stomach disease is also a disease that modern people easily get. As far as I know, there should not be too many stomach medicines in China. Except that Sanjiuweitai is somewhat famous, I have never heard of it. Are there any other well-known Chinese patent medicines for the treatment of the stomach? In this case, you shouldn’t be too hindered, right?”
Liang frowned and explained: “I developed this medicine since I saw that there are too many people in the city nowadays. Many young people who go to work have stomach problems at a young age, and there is a large group of potential customers, so I brought the team to tackle problems. I found a suitable recipe from countless ancient recipes, but I didn’t expect to be a step ahead by foreign companies, and they also optimized our original recipes.”
Charlie frowned: “Foreign companies? To plagiarize our ancient traditional medicine prescriptions? Don’t those companies mainly focus on western medicine?”
Liang shook his head and stated, “It’s not a western medicine, but Kobayashi Pharmaceuticals obtained an ancient prescription from our country, and later developed a kind of stomach powder based on it. The efficacy of this stomach powder is indeed stronger than our stomach medicine, so now the stomach powder market has been taken over by Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, which is highly unfavorable for us.”
He paused for a moment, and subsequently mentioned with a little frustration: “Leave aside, Kobayashi Pharmaceuticals has developed our ancient traditional medicine prescriptions. The level of development of our ancient traditional medicine prescriptions is indeed incredibly high. Since the era of Masao Kobayashi, they have been profiting from Kampo medicines all over the world. , Kobayashi Pharmaceutical’s background is too deep.”
“Kobayashi Pharmaceutical?” Charlie couldn’t help frowning when he heard this, and asked: “Kobayashi Pharmaceutical was so weak before, is it still so competitive now?”
Liang nodded, sighed, and declared, “Kobayashi Pharmaceuticals is the top pharmaceutical company in Asia after all. As long as it doesn’t hurt the bones, it has strong competitiveness, and they have the best hardware laboratory and R&D team in Asia. Therefore, they can optimize a stomach powder based on the ancient prescription.”
Charlie smiled slightly. He didn’t expect that Jiro undeniably had two brushes. The entire Kobayashi Pharmaceutical was pitted by himself for more than 10 billion, and he was about to turn over so soon.
At this time, Liang also sighed: “We didn’t make good use of the essence left by our ancestors. We finally let foreigners plagiarize it. It’s truly a shame.”
Charlie asked: “How big is the impact of Kobayashi Pharmaceutical on you now?”
Liang remarked: “The gastric medicine alone will have a exceptionally big impact. In the long run, Kobayashi Pharmaceuticals is now actively developing new drugs. I estimate that in the future it will gradually eat away our development space. The income has already been greatly affected. Almost all the money invested in stomach medicine has been squandered, and we will continue to research and develop new medicines. If it succeeds, it will be fine. If it fails, it will take us further into the quagmire.”
After talking, Liang stated again: “During this time, the World College Sanda Fighting Competition is about to begin. It will be held in Aurous Hill. This game is sponsored by Kobayashi Pharmaceutical, and the promotion is highly big.”
Charlie asked curiously: “Will Jiro come?”
Liang remarked: “I don’t know this yet, but it is mentioned that the award-giving guest for this finals is a high-level Kobayashi Pharmaceutical official. It is still unclear who it is. It may be Jiro.”
Charlie nodded lightly.
What do you think of this unexpected corporate espionage and the battle for ancient remedies? Share your predictions for how Charlie will tackle Kobayashi Pharmaceuticals in the comments below!