India’s Ranbaxy: another can of worms
Last week Ranbaxy Laboratories, India’s biggest pharmaceuticals company, must have thought it had at last settled an eight-year dispute when it paid $500m in fines and compensation and pleaded guilty to felony charges related to production and distribution of adulterated drugs in the US.
But it isn’t over yet. Daiichi Sankyo – the Tokyo based drugmaker that paid quite a premium for a controlling stake in Ranbaxy back in 2008 – has taken the row to a new front. Continue reading »
Ranbaxy pleads guilty and settles US felony but outlook remains unclear
The US subsidiary of Ranbaxy Laboratories, India’s biggest pharmaceuticals group, has pleaded guilty to felony charges related to drug safety and will pay $500m in what the US Department of Justice called the largest such settlement to date with a generic drug manufacturer.
It lifts a cloud hanging over Ranbaxy for the past eight years. But it is still not clear when the company will be able to resume exports to the US from its two factories at the centre of the scandal, which have been at a virtual standstill since 2008. Continue reading »
Ranbaxy: losses, again
Shares in Indian generic drugs group Ranbaxy Laboratories dropped 4.2 per cent on Wednesday to Rs399.20, having lost 4 per cent in the previous session, after the company posted disappointing financial results.
The numbers caused analysts to question the company’s expenses and launch of new drugs, given the performance. Continue reading »
Ranbaxy creates India’s first new drug
With the Wednesday launch of Synriam, an anti-malarial, Ranbaxy Laboratories became the first Indian pharmaceutical company to produce a fully-indigenously developed drug.
India’s largest pharma company hailed Synriam – developed in coordination with the Indian government and part of the company’s corporate social responsibility initiatives – as a milestone for the Indian pharmaceutical industry and a vital new therapy in the fight against malaria. Continue reading »
Ranbaxy’s relief after FDA approval
Shares of India’s biggest pharmaceutical company, Ranbaxy Laboratories, opened up 10.4 per cent on Thursday, following news that it had received FDA-approval to market its generic version of Pfizer’s anti-cholesterol drug, Lipitor.
The approvals on Wednesday came at the last moment, just one day before Ranbaxy would be legally allowed to sell the drug, which is expected to generate $500m-$600m in sales for the company in the next six months. Continue reading »
Ranbaxy’s high blood pressure day
Wednesday should have been a great day for India’s largest pharmaceutical company, Ranbaxy Laboratories. After all, it is one of two companies that, come Thursday, will be allowed to sell a generic version of Lipitor, Pfizer’s blockbuster anti-cholesterol drug.
Instead, shares in Ranbaxy, which had global sales of nearly $1.9bn last year, fell 3.88 per cent on news that the FDA had yet to award the company approval to market Lipitor, the best-selling drug in the pharma industry’s history, in the US. Continue reading »
Ranbaxy: is India’s pharma trailblazer running out of steam?
Some top executives enjoy enormous longevity at the helm of Indian companies. That can’t be said these days of those at Ranbaxy Laboratories, a once family-owned pharmaceutical company that was bought by Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo two years ago.
Since the Japanese took control of India’s largest generic drugs producer, the company will have had three chief executives in little more than two years. That’s not a good sign.
First, Malvinder Singh (pictured here), the former family owner, quit. Now his replacement, Atul Sobti, has done the same. Continue reading »
[Snap]: Ranbaxy chief to step down
Atul Sobti, chief executive and managing director of India’s top drugmaker is to step down on August 18. Sobti has been in the job just over a year.
The company also released forecast-beating Q3 earnings today. Shares are down 0.5 per cent in late trading. More to follow.
Piramal’s plans for a block-buster: dream or reality?
Indian drugmaker Piramal appears to have hit a sweetspot with the sale of its generic drugs business to Abbott Laboratories of the US for $3.7bn last week. The deal gives Piramal the money to pursue its big ambition – to develop a drug of its own. Even for a company with this much cash in the bank that will be a tall order. Continue reading »
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