Drug major Sun Pharmaceutical Industries is gradually ramping up its speciality business across global markets as it aims to clock "low-to-mid teens" growth in consolidated revenues in the current fiscal. Addressing shareholders in the company's annual report for 2018-19, Sun Pharma Managing Director Dilip Shanghvi said the company is focused at growing each of its business verticals faster than the market in which it operates. "Our consistent focus is on growing each of our businesses faster than the market in which they operate. Our global specialty initiatives will supplement this objective as an additional growth engine," Shanghvi said. The company is targeting key ailments like psoriasis to gradually ramp up its global specialty business, he said adding that Sun Pharma would continue to invest in branding and promotion of its various specialty products. Besides, R&D investments for funding clinical trials of some of the specialty products are also likely to continue in ...
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Sales in the US were $443 million for the quarter, a 20 per cent increase over the same period last year, and accounted for 44 per cent of total sales
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The company had posted a net profit of Rs 1,342.50 crore for the corresponding period of the previous fiscal
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Shangvi feels the domestic market is big enough to accommodate both branded and unbranded medicines
The policy push comes as many generic drugmakers are still reeling from a brutal price war in the world's biggest drug market, the US.
As per media reports, the regulator is learnt to have found deficiencies relating to medicine quality, data collection, maintenance as well as quality control unit
The pharma company had reported a nearly four-fold jump in its consolidated net profit at Rs 1,241.85 crore for the third quarter of financial year 2018-19(FY18-19).
The company may also spend more on research and development (R&D) next year owing to clinical trials for new indications of its recently launched product Ilumya and others
The company had posted a net profit of Rs 321.57 crore for the corresponding period of the previous fiscal
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The move comes after its shares tumbled last week following reports about a complaint by a whistleblower to regulators relating to certain transactions involving the company and an executive director
The drug major said that its domestic formulations distribution shall be transitioned from Aditya Medisales, the current distributor, to a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sun Pharma.