Managing Expectations: "We're Still On Target" Says AstraZeneca CEO

Pascal Soriot says AstraZeneca remains on track to hit its $45bn sales target in 2023 – more or less - but to do that the UK's second biggest drug maker must maintain recent improvements in R&D productivity.

Pascal Soriot
Pascal Soriot Says AstraZeneca Still On Course To Hit 2023 Sales Target • Source: Scrip/LEllis

With growing product sales and a bulging, promising pipeline, once-troubled AstraZeneca PLC looks to be on the road to recovery and that 2018 will be a key year for that transition, according to CEO Pascal Soriot.

Presenting the group's fourth-quarter and full-year market update on Feb 2, Soriot told analysts and reporters that 2017 "was indeed...

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