Miguel Calado, has joined Hovione in the capacity of Chief Financial Officer and as a member of the Executive Committee, with responsibilities at Group level and his main mission aims to reinforce our financial performance and to develop our ability to measure management performance.

With 50 years old, dual national, Portuguese and US, he obtained his business training in Brazil, working first for Samarco Mineração, a company of the GE group. He spent 15 years with PepsiCo Inc. where he held a number of senior executive positions, first in Asia (Hong Kong and Singapore) as Vice-President Finance for Pepsi-Cola International-Asia Pacific, then as Senior Vice-President Finance and Chief Financial Officer for Frito-Lay International in the US. In 1998 Miguel joined Dean Foods as Executive Vice-President and President for International Operations. He is also a board member at HNI Corp and has an advisory role at the Universidade Católica in Lisbon where he occasionally teaches.  

“Management Meetings” – already know as MM, the first Management meeting took place on January 4th with the objective of presenting and discussing the Short Term Plan, the Vision Map and the most critical issues to be covered during 2006 at the Loures site. The new groupwide Internal Communication Plan to be implemented during the year was also presented. The day’s work, considered very rewarding by those present, gave rise to the strategic objectives for the Loures site for 2006.
The second meeting, held on January 20th, involved representatives from all sites: Macau, Hong Kong, New Jersey and Loures. Group issues concerning inter-site relations were addressed, intended to incentivate a better understanding of “the other side”. It was an excellent opportunity to get to know and work with colleagues from far away and resulted in a very successful session where inter-site problems were solved and objectives were set at Group level.

• Company strategy and management decisions communciation
• Vertical communication
• Horizontal communication between areas and sites

Communication is something that, as people, we do easily and instinctively every day but the fact is that it becomes more complex in organizations of a greater dimension. The plan will help to some extent but the commitment and efforts of all are essential for its success. Specifically, the 10 actions of the Plan (communicated in detail internally) will promote communication where it is most lacking. For example the recently implemented “Vision Map” will propagate our strategy, values and culture internally in order to establish a stronger connection between all employees and the business and its future. The iCLOCK, on the other hand, is a tool accessible through Sharepoint which centralizes in calendar form, all relevant company management events and respective documents concerning: Strategy, Human Resources, Finances, Sales, Internal Logistics, Events, CEO Communications, Top Management and Line Management communications (LM comms).
LM comms will, in turn, demand a conscious effort from management in sharing the information with their staff, a process which should be done at all levels. This is one of the most important and comprising actions of the plan.
Also to be noted is the fact that work is already underway to improve communication channels and information sharing tools such as Sharepoint. Finally, a questionnaire to all employees, to be carried out now and in a year’s time, will evaluate the performance and results of the implemented measures.

CPhl-The Largest World Fair for Chemical and Pharmaceutical Products
With 20,000 visitors from 110 countries, 1500 exhibition stands and 5 pavilions from the Madrid Fair, the show was held from the 1st to the 3rd of November 2005. Hovione participated for the 13th time at CPhl. To give an idea of the growth of this event, the first edition took place in 1990 with 250 visitors from 16 countries!
18 people from Hovione were present at our stand. Three days full of activity and intensive work with the Sales Group attending more than 60 meetings with customers and the Purchases Group taking part in 100 meetings with present and future suppliers.
Hovione features regularly in the event’s daily magazine showing the most relevant participants at the Show and also had an article published on the Show Daily by Guy Villax “GMP now Requirement – Finally!”

AAPS – American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists
Hovione exhibited for the second time at the AAPS annual meeting. This fair, held in Nashville, USA, from 6th to 10th of November 2005, is a meeting of researchers from the pharmaceutical industry and from the universities that develop new formulations. This meeting attracts around 7,000 people looking for new technologies and suppliers of raw-materials and services. Hovione’s presence in this show is in line with our strategy to offer galenic services that complement our main activity in APIs.. These services are related to particle design engineered with technologies such as micronization and spray-drying. Promoting these technologies and our experience in this filed is an element that distinguishes us from the competition and allows us to gather new contacts and potential customers. This year around 60 people visited our stand. 

Did you know that Hovione is visited every day of the year by foreign visitors? Customers, suppliers, consultants and auditors constitute a permanent flow of visitors, who together with our national visitors, enrich our experience and knowledge. The internal tools “Who’s visiting/Who’s travelling” available on the intranet provide a schedule of all business visits as well as trips made by our staff, including participation at conferences.

This way it is possible to assess the number and type of visits received at our installations as well as trips carried out by Hovione employees.

Besides these tools, there is an easier way to check if we have foreign visitors: a look at the flags hoisted at the entrance of the site will show you the nationality of the visitors. It is our way of welcoming and greeting visitors and of letting the community know that we have visitors!