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Ranking of 20 Drug Companies' Sales Forces Shows Productivity Flat or Declining
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
Blog posts 2009-02-24
Ranking of 20 Drug Companies Shows Sales Force Effectiveness Reaching Plateau
A ranking of 20 drug companies by sales and marketing productivity shows that 10 companies saw upward trends in effectiveness in Q2 2009. Last quarter, 13 companies had upward trends. The numbers indicate that companies have started to reach a plateau in their efforts to wring more revenues out of...
Tags: Sales Force, Drug Company, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Sales, Marketing, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2009-08-07
GSK and Others See Massachusetts Showdown Over Drug-Marketing Reform
There are two ideas floating in the world of politics to curb the way drug companies give doctors gifts and often biased information. One of them is a good idea, and one of them is a bad idea. Drug companies -- such as GlaxoSmithKline -- have chosen...
Tags: Drug Company, Idea, Massachusetts, U.S. Senate, GSK, Government, Sales Force Management, Vertical Industries, Sales, Enterprise Software, Software, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2008-08-08
Ranking of 20 Drug Companies by Sales Force Effectiveness Shows Improvement in Q1
A ranking of 20 drug companies on sales and marketing productivity shows upward trends in effectiveness in Q1 2009. At the top of the table is AIDS drug specialist Gilead. At the bottom of the table is vanity pharma play Medicis. by Jim Edwards
Tags: Sales Force, Drug Company, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Sales, Marketing, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2009-05-14
Pharma Roundup: Schering-Plough Surveys Investors, Wyeth Defended, and More
Schering-Plough shareholders to have say on executive compensation, U.S. drug sales predictions lowered, McCain and Obama both promise hard line on Big Pharma. Also: two lawyers condemn unfounded anti-Wyeth opinions. by John Maas
Tags: Wyeth, Pharmaceutical Company, Schering-Plough Corp., Survey, Investor, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, John Maas, Drug Company, Marketing Research, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance
Blog posts 2008-10-29

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Dendrite International acquires a European Company
MORRISTOWN, N.J.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 8, 1996--Dendrite International, Inc. (NASDAQ/NMS:DRTE), the world's largest supplier of enterprise-wide customer management solutions to the pharmaceutical industry, today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire SRCI S.A. (Montigny-le-Bretonneux, France), the largest provider of custom-designed sales force management systems in France for the Over-The Counter...
Tags: Dendrite International Inc., SRCI S.A.
Research articles 1996-05-08
Elan Management Creates Self-Enrichment Plan as Pfizer-Wyeth Deal Threatens Bapineuzumab
UPDATE: Elan says the  share awards are part of "the normal annual compensation process" at Elan. See Elan's full statement in the comments section below. Elan's senior management have hatched a plan to enrich themselves in the event of a sale or takeover of their troubled...
Tags: Wyeth, Pfizer Inc., CEO, Elan, Corporate Governance, Sales Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Sales Force Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Investment, Finance, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2009-02-17
Amylin v. Eastbourne Slideshow Battle; It's All About the Stock Price
Amylin and Eastbourne Capital, locked in a fight for control of Amylin's board of directors, have escalated their war in the only way that beancounters know how: duelling presentations. You can see Amylin's here and a summary of Eastbourne's here. Eastbourne has kept it...
Tags: Stock Price, Stock, Board, Eastbourne Capital, Amylin, Corporate Governance, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Financial Accounting, Investment, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sales, Finance, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2009-05-06
Pharma Roundup: Pfizer Examined; Merck, UPS, and Wholesalers; and More
Pfizer's dangerous tendency to save management instead of its operations -- ... is one of the company's problems, according to some commentary in this analysis of the Biggest Pharma. Yes, it is the largest, but that certainly doesn't immunize Pfizer against the tremendous pressures of the current climate -- especially...
Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Pfizer Inc., Wholesaler, Merck & Co. Inc., Nasdaq Stock Market Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, John Maas
Blog posts 2009-01-20
GlaxoSmithKline Employees Fume Over Latest Round of Layoffs
GlaxoSmithKline is historically terrible at handling layoffs news, and the round of job cuts that appears imminent is no exception. (Update: the official announcement is coming on Wednesday.) As usual, the news is being debated all over the net before management has gotten out of bed just like last time....
Tags: Layoff, Pfizer Inc., Sales Force, GlaxoSmithKline Plc., GSK, Tykerb, Sales Strategy, Workforce Management, Sales Force Management, Sales, Human Resources, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2008-11-04
Amgen More Dependent on Denosumab Than Ever, But What If FDA Delays Approval?
Amgen's Q4 results showed, again, how dependent the company is on the FDA coming up with a solid approval for denosumab, its osteoporosis drug. Revenues were down a little bit to $3.6 billion, but expenses ballooned. The revenue yield on its sales dollars collapsed 23 percent from...
Tags: Wyeth, FDA, Amgen Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Federal Government, Sales, Government, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2009-01-27
Alcon Incorporated Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you. [Operator Instruction] please stand by for your first question. Your first question will be from the line of Peter Bye of Jefferies & Co. Peter Bye – Jefferies & Co Thanks and good morning. I apologize if you’ve already...
Tags: Alcon
Earnings calls 2007-10-25
Need to know: Time Warner falls 7%... Greggs sales up... Kier deal
View video and Need to Know interactive heatmap Economics Interest rates: The Bank of England should cut interest rates by either a half-point or a full percentage point today, The Times Monetary Policy Committee recommended in a split vote. Three of the nine members of the panel said that no...
News items 2009-08-07
Forest Laboratories: Finding Ways to Bring Drugs to Market — Fast
Pfizer may be big, but Forest Laboratories is nimble. The smaller company competes by ushering drugs through FDA red tape in record time. Giant: Pfizer Shadow Success: Forest Laboratories, Inc. Pfizer market cap: $96.56 billion;...
Tags: Pfizer Inc., Forest Laboratories Inc., Federal Government, Business Structures, Government, Finance, Competition, Market Share, Forest Laboratories, Pfizer, Pharmaceutical Industry, Bystolic, Melanie Haiken
Articles 2009-06-10
The Pfizer-Shire Deal Worst-Case Scenario
Earlier this week shares of Shire rose on rumors that Pfizer may be interested in acquiring the company, which is best-known for its ADHD drug Adderall XR. The notion that Pfizer is in acquisition mode has been driving people crazy for days. (See BNET's coverage of Pfizer Pfever here.) ...
Tags: Patient, Medicaid, Pfizer Inc., Generic, Shire, ADHD, Vyvanse, Barr, Cola, Healthcare, Jim Edwards
Blog posts 2009-01-07
Tongjitang Chinese Medicines Co. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator instructions. We'll go first to Katherine Lu of Oppenheimer. Unidentified Analyst Good morning, this is inaudible calling for Katherine Lu from Oppenheimer. Congratulation on inclusion of Xianling Gubao into the essential drug list. Looks like this is the only drug that is included in...
Tags: Analyst, Medicines Co., Call Transcript, Health Care, Earnings, Pricing Strategy, Question, Government, Pricing, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Marketing Research, Healthcare, Marketing, Human Resources, Seeking Alpha
Earnings calls 2009-11-18
Five Masters of the Boardroom
Challenging times call for extraordinary board members who can thwart corporate chaos. Here are five who shine. img.boardmember {border:4px solid #edece7; background:#fff; padding:4px; float:right; margin:0px 0 10px 10px; } ...
Tags: Xerox Corp., Board, Director, Pick, Position, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Marie C. Baca, Board of Directors
Articles 2008-10-15
CEGEDIM Announces Acquisition Of Target Software
CEGEDIM, a European provider of CRM solutions for the healthcare industry, has announced it has acquired Target Software, Inc., a pharmaceutical CRM provider in the U.S. Target Software licenses its suite of CRM, sales force automation and drug sample management applications, known as Target SFA, to many U.S. pharmaceutical companies....
Tags: Cegedim S.A.
Research articles 2005-05-01
AZ looks to auto plants for efficiency gurus
Years ago, Japanese car manufacturers turned to management gurus to make their plants more efficient. Now, AstraZeneca is hiring automotive gurus to apply their efficiencies to drug production, the Financial Times reports. It's yet another example of how pharma is borrowing from other industries in an effort to cut costs...
Tags: efficiency, buyout, Pharmaceutical Company, guru, AstraZeneca Plc.
News items 2009-10-26
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