Lilly Triples Investment in Growing Market for Diabetes
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Lilly Triples Investment in Growing Market for Diabetes
By Drew Armstrong - Nov 14, 2013 2:00 AM ET
Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY), the biggest U.S. maker of insulin products, will pour another $700 million into manufacturing capacity, more than tripling its investment in the expanding market for diabetes treatments.
Lilly is expanding plants in Puerto Rico, China, France and at its headquarters in Indianapolis. China alone will see a $350 million buildup that will enable Lilly to produce more insulin cartridges for re-usable devices.
“We’re doubling down on insulin, and diabetes,” Enrique Conterno, the head of Lilly’s diabetes business, said in a telephone interview. The $700 million brings to $1 billion the amount Lilly is spending on insulin manufacturing this year.
The number of diabetics worldwide is projected to grow to 592 million in 2035 from 382 million this year, according to a report released today by the International Diabetes Federation. Those rates are growing rapidly in emerging markets, with 80 percent of diabetics living in low- or middle-income countries, the foundation said.
Lilly is expanding into more cities and regions in China, where international drugmakers dominate the insulin market.
“We have been really investing in that field, and if you look at some of the results we’ve had, we’re gaining market share,” said Jacques Tapiero, Lilly’s president of emerging markets.
Lilly has said that it will have a treatment in every major class of diabetes therapy, from pills to insulin injections. It has had less success developing drugs for other diseases, though, and Conterno said diabetes is competitive.
The setbacks for Lilly’s experimental medicines and the heavy wager on the diabetes market led Jami Rubin, an analyst with Goldman Sachs Group Inc., to downgrade the stock to sell from neutral on Nov. 11. An experimental drug for Alzheimer’s disease also has a low chance of success, Rubin said.
Ramucirumab, a compound in the final round of testing usually required for approval, was given a priority review designation by U.S. regulators for gastric cancer though it failed to meet trial goals in breast tumors.
To contact the reporter on this story: Drew Armstrong in New York at darmstrong17@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Reg Gale at rgale5@bloomberg.net
Lilly Triples Investment in Growing Market for Diabetes
By Drew Armstrong - Nov 14, 2013 2:00 AM ET
Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY), the biggest U.S. maker of insulin products, will pour another $700 million into manufacturing capacity, more than tripling its investment in the expanding market for diabetes treatments.
Lilly is expanding plants in Puerto Rico, China, France and at its headquarters in Indianapolis. China alone will see a $350 million buildup that will enable Lilly to produce more insulin cartridges for re-usable devices.
“We’re doubling down on insulin, and diabetes,” Enrique Conterno, the head of Lilly’s diabetes business, said in a telephone interview. The $700 million brings to $1 billion the amount Lilly is spending on insulin manufacturing this year.
The number of diabetics worldwide is projected to grow to 592 million in 2035 from 382 million this year, according to a report released today by the International Diabetes Federation. Those rates are growing rapidly in emerging markets, with 80 percent of diabetics living in low- or middle-income countries, the foundation said.
Lilly is expanding into more cities and regions in China, where international drugmakers dominate the insulin market.
“We have been really investing in that field, and if you look at some of the results we’ve had, we’re gaining market share,” said Jacques Tapiero, Lilly’s president of emerging markets.
Lilly has said that it will have a treatment in every major class of diabetes therapy, from pills to insulin injections. It has had less success developing drugs for other diseases, though, and Conterno said diabetes is competitive.
The setbacks for Lilly’s experimental medicines and the heavy wager on the diabetes market led Jami Rubin, an analyst with Goldman Sachs Group Inc., to downgrade the stock to sell from neutral on Nov. 11. An experimental drug for Alzheimer’s disease also has a low chance of success, Rubin said.
Ramucirumab, a compound in the final round of testing usually required for approval, was given a priority review designation by U.S. regulators for gastric cancer though it failed to meet trial goals in breast tumors.
To contact the reporter on this story: Drew Armstrong in New York at darmstrong17@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Reg Gale at rgale5@bloomberg.net
