Medipal's Yoda on Business Strategy
Toshihide Yoda, Senior Managing Director at Japan's biggest wholesaler of pharmaceuticals, Medipal, discusses the company's investment and growth strategies as it plans to evaluate cash deployment strategies to ensure better returns to shareholders. He speaks with Shery Ahn and Haidi Stroud-Watts on "Bloomberg: The Asia Trade". (Source: Bloomberg)
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