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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (66529)7/23/2005 9:29:11 AM
From: arun gera  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
What is the percentage of costs for a typical pharma company:

Sales & marketing as a percentage of revenue
Manufacturing as a percentage of revenue
R&D as a percentage of revenue

Cost of finding a unique medicine that others cannot make and market is going up. Have the Pharma companies raised their R&D? Or they are just copping out and creatively increasing the perceived value of their medicines by more advertizing.

>"TECHNOLOGY IS MAKING MEDICINES DIRT CHEAP." If you mean manufacturing costs, that is certainly the trend. But the cost of developing a new effective medicine is now higher than ever.>
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