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Generic Drugs (GDs) market is booming now-a-days. Many new
companies after seeing the range of profits in the Generic drugs industry are
trying to enter the field of generic drugs.
Jubilant Organosys, a Contract manufacturing firm, is planning to make
big investments in the generic drugs space. Jubilant Organosys is well known
name in the market of branded drugs. Jubilant already has a good range of
products that are sold as the generic versions of the drug. Jubilant is now
planning to file applications to sell 10 new generic drugs whose patents are
expired in the European and the United States
markets every year. These drugs will be manufactured in the new plant in India.
Jubilant Organosys new plant is in Roorkee (India).
The new plant is developed according the international standards. The company’s
new plant recently received the regulatory nod and is approved by the European
drug regulators association. Jubilant Organosys is expecting to get the
standard certificates from the Food and Drug Administration in United
States within the period of next 6 to 7
months. So Jubilant Organosys will be able to sell its new range of generic
drugs in both American and European markets.
Jubilant Organosys will be bringing the new drugs in the
category of cardio vascular system (CVS), respiratory, anti-infective, gastrointestinal, and central nervous systems (CNS). “The
promotion and marketing of these generic drugs would be done through the
agreement with drug marketing companies in the Europe and United
States,” a company executive told in a press
conference. Though, none of the company’s filings is first-to-file (FTF)
applications. Generic drugs get 180 days marketing exclusivity with the
innovator’s drug if it is an FTF application upon patent expiry.
According to the market surveys United States
is the world’s largest generic drug market. In next 3 to 4 years, around
$80-100 billion drugs are expected to lose their patent protection. Thus,
generic companies are targeting the United States
market by launching generic drugs in the United
States. Jubilant Organosys is presently
having around nine generic drugs in the United States
market from its US
subsidiary Cadista Pharmaceuticals’ plant in Maryland
(NJ). Still five new generic drugs are pending for the approval. Jubilant
Organosys had acquired Cadista, a generic pharmaceutical company, in 2005.
Presently, generic drugs are contributing nearly 3% of Jubilant’s total sales
of Rs. 1,976 crore in 2007-2008. Jubilant Organosys is trying to raise the
sales of generic drugs to about 10-12% in the next economical year. Jubilant
Organosys will be investing about 100 crores in the research, manufacturing,
and clinical trails of these new generic drugs. Jubilant Organosys also has the
plans to increase the sale of generic drugs and capture at least 15% market of
generic drugs in United States
and European markets.
Jubilant Organosys is planning to increase the value chain which will help it
in increasing its sales. Jubilant Organosys is already manufacturing active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) for several big giants in the
field of generic drugs. The clinical trials and research of the new generic
drugs would be done at the Jubilant Organosys research facilities in India.
Jubilant Organosys is also planning to get this drugs soon in the Indian market
and then in the American and European markets.
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