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Pfizer Divests Select China Prevenar 13 Rights, Staff As Domestic Firms Gain Traction

Competitive Presence Needed

 
• By Brian Yang

Following in the steps of Merck & Co. and GSK, Pfizer is turning to a Chinese partner to more broadly market one of its top vaccines in the country - but the US firm is going one step further.

A woman wears a facemask as she walks by the Pfizer world headquarters in New York on November 9, 2020.
Pfizer divests China Prevenar 13 rights to local partner amid strong competition, scale challenges • Source: KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images (KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

Pfizer Inc. is divesting most rights to its Prevenar 13 vaccine (13-valent, pneumococcal polysaccharide conjugate) in China to a domestic company, in the latest localization move involving vaccines from multinationals.

On 24 November, a post on the Chinese social media site Little Red Book (similar to Instagram) noted the move had been shared with the product's commercial team in China, sharing a screenshot related to an agreement with Keyuan, a trading subsidiary of

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