Month: September 2021

Lovely morning full of tea, coffee and cake at Morningside Pharmaceuticals to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.

As is the Morningside way, our colleagues went over and above to cook up some very delicious treats for others to enjoy, as part of Macmillan’s annual World Biggest Coffee Morning event.

A donation was made for each slice of cake sold, which was donated directly to the charity, which provides specialist health care, information and financial support to people affected by cancer. Macmillan also looks at the social, emotional and practical impact cancer can have, and campaigns for better cancer care.

The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning is Macmillan’s biggest fundraising event to support people living with cancer. Every year people all over the UK host their own Coffee Morning and donations raised on the day are made to the charity.

In 2020 the event raised over £10 million.

To find out more about Macmillan Cancer Support visit here.

Congratulations to the Morningside Team for winning a LeicestershireLive Business Award at a glittering ceremony, featuring Britain’s Got Talent Winner Richard Jones.

The award winning magician joined Leicestershire’s brightest and best businesses at the ceremony hosted in the Maher Centre, in Leicester, for the first live Business Awards event since before the Covid-19 pandemic locked down the world.

Morningside Pharmaceuticals were thrilled to win the Excellence in Science and Technology Award, which was collected by our Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Cliff Fung.

This is a very special award for Morningside because it pays tribute to a company that ‘has excelled in the field of science and technology, and recognises advancement and innovation’.

The judges were impressed by Morningside’s strong scientific and technological ethos, as well as the quality of our products. The judges were also looking for a dedication to sales performance, and a commitment to innovation and the sustainability of the business.

Morningside would like to dedicate this award win to our talented, dedicated and hard working employees, without whom, none of this would be possible.

As well as winning an award, Morningside also sponsored the Business Entrepreneur of the Year category, which was presented by our CEO Tim Brady.

This category is close to our hearts at Morningside, as our company was founded in the 1990s through an entrepreneur’s dream of ‘making quality healthcare an affordable and accessible reality throughout the world’.

Today, we’re immensely proud to be one of the Midlands’ leading Life Sciences businesses, but we continue to be proudly guided by our founding mission.

 

Truly inspiring evening at the 2021 LeicestershireLive Innovation Awards, which Morningside Pharmaceuticals were once again proud Headline Sponsors of.

The annual festival of ideas and all things innovative took place at the National Space Centre, in Leicester, where the county’s brightest innovators were honoured for their pioneering work, which is quite literally creating the future.

During the evening our Founder and Chairman Dr Nik Kotecha OBE, as well as leaders from the public, private sectors and academia, delivered rousing speeches, which showcased the hard work going on behind the scenes to promote and nurture innovation in Leicestershire.

Dr Nik’s speech focussed on Morningside’s journey as a leading innovator in the Life Sciences Sector, as well as how leaders from key sectors have come  together, this year, and are seeking to create a long term sustainable innovation strategy for the county and region.

The awards, now in their third year, are a flagship event in Leicestershire which celebrates the very best technology, services, digital advances, and creative thinking that the region has to offer.

Its aim is to celebrate the individuals, teams, businesses and public sector bodies that are leading the way in research and development and in manufacturing techniques, software and digital technologies. Alongside this, the awards also honour the engineers and construction specialists who are shaping our world.

Congratulations to all of the night’s nominees and winners. So many amazing stories, which are a testament to the dynamic, creative talents we are fortunate to have here.

Huge congratulations to our Chairman, Dr Nik Kotecha OBE, who has been named a Regional EY Entrepreneur of the Year Winner for the Midlands and South West, in the Sustainable Excellence category.

This is a particularly humbling moment for Morningside Pharmaceuticals, as we celebrate our 30th year, as well as to have our Founder honoured alongside so many inspiring , successful and talented people.

From an entrepreneur’s dream of ‘making quality healthcare an affordable and accessible reality throughout the world’, Morningside was established by Dr Kotecha in the 1990s as a start-up.

He noticed a gap in the market to supply international aid to lower- and middle-income countries. Today, and through a strong focus on innovation, investing in R&D and continuous improvement, the business uses novel technology to launch niche generic and branded medicines to expand choice and value for patients and pharmacies in the UK and globally.

With an inquisitive mind and a proactive approach, Nik has improved health care for communities living in more than 120 countries worldwide, since the company’s inception, as well as saved the NHS in the UK millions of pounds.

Morningside also continues to supply pharmaceuticals to aid agencies, charities and NGOs — including UNICEF, Red Cross and the World Health Organization (WHO); as well as works with partners in the private sectors in individual countries.

Dr Kotecha said: “It is a great privilege and a real honour to be nominated. One of my passions is working with young entrepreneurs to help them develop the necessary skills and experience to create the success stories of tomorrow.

“I hope my story and experiences can inspire and encourage others to try new things and follow their entrepreneurial dreams.”

As well as his successes in the business world, Dr Kotecha is also passionate about ‘giving back’, through Morningside’s extensive corporate-social-responsibility support, as well as through his significant philanthropic work.

To find out more about the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Awards visit here.

Morningside has proudly celebrated our 30^th anniversary with a summer party to thank all of our employees and their families for making the company the success it is today.

The outdoor event was hosted at Whatton House, near Loughborough, where a wide range of activities were set up, including bouncy castles, as well as traditional fairground-style games like hook-a-duck, the high striker, tin-can alley and giant jenga.

A celebratory BBQ was laid on for all of the guests, as well as a popcorn and candy-floss cart, which was a big hit with the adults and children alike.

As part of the festivities everyone came together for speeches by our Chief Executive Tim Brady and our Chairman Dr Nik Kotecha OBE, who founded Morningside as a home-garage startup with his wife Moni in 1991.

During his speech Dr Nik thanked every employee for their hard work and dedication over the years, as well as their families for all of the support they have provided behind the scenes.

He then went on to talk a little about Morningside’s rich history, from our origins of being a 100% export business to international Aid agencies, NGOs and charities, which in turn provide Aid to lower-middle income countries facing crisis. To this day Morningside remains one of the UK’s leading suppliers of a wide range of quality medicines to international Aid, and has exported to more than 120 countries, since inception.

Later in our journey the Morningside companies established a sales & marketing, Quality Assurance and regulatory presence in the UK. A focus on investing in R&D, innovation and continuous improvement led to the development of niche high-value molecules. At the same time the business invested heavily in infrastructure with the addition of 3 GMP approved warehouses, in order to build an international and UK distribution network.

In 2012 Morningside were humbled to win the Queen’s Award for Innovation: International Trade. In the same few years the first product was launched with full IP ownership and a substantial marketing investment was made to launch our Headline Brand range.

Fast forward to today and Morningside proudly delivers twice daily to the NHS in the UK and has 242 generic and branded licensed medicines in the UK and EU. Internationally, our focus remains on supplying Aid, as well as continuing to expand into new international markets, where product registrations in individual countries offer an opportunity to grow into the private sectors.

During this time Morningside and our Chairman, Dr Kotecha, have won numerous awards, including being bestowed as an OBE by HM Queen Elizabeth II (2017), being named the national Entrepreneur of the Year at the National Business Awards (2019), and Morningside being honoured with a Board of Trade Award by the Department for International Trade (DIT 2018).

Morningside has also received international recognition, and following a trade mission Dr Kotecha attended with former Prime Minister Theresa May to India in 2016, the PM said: “I am showing off the best of British on my trade trip to India – and Morningside Pharmaceuticals is a great example of what the United Kingdom can offer the world as we leave the EU.”

The 30^th anniversary celebration was rounded off with the cutting of the cake and a toast to Morningside’s rich successful past and very bright future.