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• Ranking of 20 Drug Companies' Sales Forces Shows Productivity Flat or Declining

  BNET - 2009-02-24

  A ranking of drug company sales productivity shows Gilead gets the most revenues in return for every dollar invested in reps and marketing. At the other end of the table, Sepracor gets the least bang for its sales, general and administrative buck see table below. ...

  Tags: Revenue, Pfizer Inc., Sales Force, Drug Company, Genentech Inc., Sepracor Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Sales, Finance, Jim Edwards

• NEJM: Foreign Drug Trials Could Hurt U.S. Patients

  BNET - 2009-02-19

  The increasing use of foreign drug trials may hurt U.S. patients because of genetic and environmental differences in overseas study subjects, a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests. "Are trial results accurate and valid, and can they be extrapolated to other settings?" asks a team from...

  Tags: U.S., China, India, Patient, Vaccine, Pfizer Inc., Drug Company, Clinical Trial, Trial, Argentine Authority, GSK, Healthcare, Jim Edwards

• FDA Caves to Pfizer, Industry on Antibiotics Ruling

  BNET - 2008-12-12

  The Food and Drug Administration has quietly withdrawn its order banning extralabel use of the antibiotic cephalosporin, so that it can "fully consider the comments" it has received on the issue. When the agency announced the order on July 3, drug companies and agriculture groups were outraged....

  Tags: Drug Company, FDA, Federal Government, Government, Katherine Glover, Pfizer Inc.

• Pfizer Leads in Layoffs While Drug Prices Soar

  BNET - 2008-04-10

  Big Pharma continues to lend new meaning to the phrase "doing more with less," because while the industry seems to get smaller every day, drugmakers are still pushing through big price increases on their leading products. Over at Pharmalot, Ed Silverman provides a helpful roundup tracking the...

  Tags: David P. Hamilton, Drug, Drug Company, Job, Layoff, Management, Pfizer Inc., Sales, Sales Strategy, Strategy

• PFIZER TO CUT DOWN 2,200 JOB

  - 2006-12-04

  AsiaInfo Services 12-04-2006 Pfizer to Cut down 2,200 Job SHANGHAI, Dec 04, 2006 SinoCast via COMTEX -- Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drugmaker, said on November 29 that it will axe 2,200 employees in its sales department in US, accounting ...

  Tags: drug company, job, Pfizer Inc., sales

• No magic potion; State life-science companies look for ways to survive, not a magic formula for success.

  - 2002-06-24

  Becoming the next Pfizer Inc., Merck & Co. or Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. isn't the first concern of the state's growing number of life-science companies. They're more concerned with looking for ways to sustain their businesses while facing a lim Becoming the next Pfizer...

  Tags: company, drug company, Pfizer Inc.

• Pfizer's prospects look good without Lambert;Analysts expected rebound in shares, but now merger adds uncertainty .(Brief Article)

  - 1999-11-08

  A combination of drugmakers, Pfizer Inc. and Warner-Lambert Co., would create the largest drug company in the world. But even if Pfizer isn't successful in luring Warner-Lambert into its fold, analysts say, the Manhattan-based drug company will be we A combination of drugmakers, Pfizer Inc. and...

  Tags: drug company, merger, Pfizer Inc.

• Manufacturing Phil: A Drug's Life

  BNET

  A Pfizer public education campaign and its cute mascot are praiseworthy, but neglect to mention the key stage in a drug's life. What will it take to make manufacturing a hot button issue and to better educate the public? Given the current consumer and media backlash against drug makers, there's...

  Tags: Pfizer Inc., Drug Company, Manufacturing