Takeda's Weber: ‘Everything Relies On Our Ability To Deliver Innovative Medicines’

With the formal completion of its huge acquisition of Shire now just a day away, some eight months after it was first announced, Takeda CEO presses home what he sees as the key priorities and benefits of the combined operation - but the real work to realize these is just beginning.

Christophe Weber
Takeda's Weber A Day Away From Realizing Shire Dream • Source: Scrip

A day before current Shire PLC employees globally get their new takeda.com email addresses, the acquisition’s most public champion Christophe Weber said he is “excited and confident” about the combined company’s future and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.’s transformation into what he sees as “a global, values-based, R&D-driven biopharmaceutical leader.”

The Japanese firm’s president and CEO told a Tokyo press conference on Jan

After months of pre-closing preparations, working through the procedures and logistics, and facing some hostility from influential shareholders in Japan, the CEO seemed to have retained a clear focus on the single most important priority

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