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Florida's Pharmed Uses Far-reaching Formula for Success.(Originated from The Miami Herald)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 1995 by Chandler, Michele
wants to replicate the kind of high-profile successes enjoyed by modern-day health care industry legends like Phillip Frost and Rick Scott.
De Cespedes wants his West Dade company, Pharmed, to one day be as notable as Frost's Ivax Corp., the world's largest supplier of generic medicines, or Scott's Columbia-HCA Healthcare, the world's biggest investor- owned hospital chain.
"These are two people I certainly have as my heros, or people I try to pattern our company after," said de Cespedes, who founded Pharmed with his brother Carlos in 1982.
Steady expansion made Pharmed the 48th-largest Hispanic-owned company in the nation last year, according Hispanic Business magazine. At $42.8 million in 1994 sales, it's several notches below Ivax and...
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