In what the companies said was an alliance seeking “increased profit for both companies,” Eisai Co. Ltd. is gradually to transfer full ownership of its Elmed Eisai generics business in Japan to Nichi-Iko Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., one of the country’s largest generics concerns.
Nichi-Iko Aims For ‘Commanding Presence’ In Japan Generics Via Eisai Alliance
Eisai has become the latest R&D-based pharma company in Japan to offload its non-innovative products as it seeks to maximize their sales and focus more on novelty and, by implication, the rewards this can bring under Japan’s evolving reimbursement pricing system.
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