Novugen

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Types of work

Brand DNA® | Brand Strategy

Brand Design (New Identity)

Brand Architecture

Brand Communications

Types of client

Pharmaceuticals / Healthcare

With the strategic vision of being able ‘to provide innovative and affordable, high-quality medicines to the vast pool of patients across the world’, Novugen Pharma established itself as: a first in Malaysia and furthermore, as a market leader among the top ten research-based pharmaceutical companies in South East Asia by the year 2022. The goal of Novugen is to focus on ‘difficult-to-source, first-to-market, niche products belonging to different therapeutic categories for global markets.’

The brand strategy was to align to both vision and goal and to position them as a responsive branded generic pharmaceutical company based in Malaysia – a rather audacious task.

“At Novugen, our purpose is to bring affordable medicine to the world. As disparities grow across the globe, the mandate is greater than ever to respond. We’ve assembled a team with years of experience in a vast range of roles across the pharmaceutical industry, all with one goal in mind: making high quality generic medicine more easily accessible and available faster to those in need,” emphasises their SVP for Business Development, Viqas Atiq.

Once the strategy and positioning was consensually agreed upon by the management team, Brandcourage developed all aspects of visual and verbal identity across both digital and conventional communications.


 

“At Novugen, our purpose is to bring affordable medicine to the world. As disparities grow across the globe, the mandate is greater than ever to respond.”

 

 


BRIEF
Malaysia is not well known as a global pharmaceutical hub. In fact, until Novugen and its sister company Oncogen, there were no manufacturers in the oncology/antineoplastics space in the country. Novugen sort to be a major player in the generics business — and by changing the formulation and/or active ingredient in “difficult to make” drugs, they saw an opportunity to take on the generic pharmaceutical giants like Teva, Mylan, Allergan, Sun Pharma, Fresenius, Endo International, Lupin, Natco and Kalbe Pharma.

 

Novugen Portfolio
Novugen Portfolio

RESPONSE 
The approach was to create a strong brand whose purpose was to accelerating affordable medicine — “As disparities grow across the globe, the mandate is greater than ever to respond. We’ve assembled a team with years of experience in a vast range of roles across the pharmaceutical industry, all with one goal in mind: making high quality generic medicine more easily accessible and available faster to those in need.”

 


Project team
Colin Anderson (Managing Director)
Gabriel Lee (Client Lead)
Collaborators
Chew Kok Hsiung (Design Director)

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