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`PHARMA & HEALTHCARE  1/28/2013 @ 9:58AM  42,902 views
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`The Best Selling Drugs of All Time;
`Humira Joins The Elite
`
`When Abbott announced its full­year results last
`week, its anti­TNF inhibitor product Humira
`delivered a stronger­than­expected 23.1 percent
`year­on­year increase in Q4 sales (recorded at
`$2.7 billion). Annual sales for 2012 stood at $9.3
`billion, cementing the status of Humira as one of
`the biggest selling products of all time.
`
`Measured in terms of peak annual sales, Humira
`revenues in 2012 were marginally below the
`combined sales of Plavix recorded by Bristol­
`Myers Squibb and Sanofi in 2011. However, while
`Plavix revenues are now undergoing a dramatic
`decline following US patent expiry last year,
`Humira continues to act as a key growth product
`for Abbott/AbbVie, and is expected to do so for
`some time.
`
`Based on an annualised Q4 2012 performance,
`Humira sales would stand at $10.7 billion; thus
`full­year revenues for 2013 can be expected to
`easily outstrip those of Plavix and move closer to
`the peak $13.7 billion figure set by Pfizer‘s
`Lipitor.
`
`Pharma’s Biggest Blockbusters
`
`Brand name Primary indication(s)
`
`Peak year
`(to date)
`
`Peak year sales ($m)
`
`Product type
`
`Lipitor
`
`Plavix
`
`Humira
`
`Seretide
`
`Enbrel
`
`Abilify
`
`Crestor
`
`Dyslipidemia
`
`Atherosclerosis
`
`Autoimmune diseases
`
`Asthma/COPD
`
`Autoimmune diseases
`
`Schizophrenia
`
`Dyslipidemia
`
`2006
`
`2011
`
`2012
`
`2011
`
`2011
`
`2011
`
`2011
`
`13696
`
`9318
`
`9265
`
`8148
`
`7830
`
`7363
`
`7021
`
`Small molecule
`
`Small molecule
`
`Biologic
`
`Small molecule
`
`Biologic
`
`Small molecule
`
`Small molecule
`
`10/14/2015
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`The Best Selling Drugs of All Time; Humira Joins The Elite ­ Forbes
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`http://www.forbes.com/sites/simonking/2013/01/28/the­best­selling­drugs­of­all­time­humira­joins­the­elite/print/
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`

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`6798
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`6782
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`6260
`
`6216
`
`6177
`
`6053
`
`5947
`
`5479
`
`5452
`
`5445
`
`5216
`
`5026
`
`Biologic
`
`Biologic
`
`Small molecule
`
`Biologic
`
`Small molecule
`
`Small molecule
`
`Biologic
`
`Small molecule
`
`Biologic
`
`Small molecule
`
`Small molecule
`
`Small molecule
`
`Rituxan
`
`Autoimmune diseases
`
`Remicade
`
`Autoimmune diseases
`
`Losec
`
`Avastin
`
`Dyslipidemia
`
`Colon, lung, renal cancer
`
`Seroquel
`
`Schizophrenia
`
`Diovan
`
`Hypertension
`
`Herceptin
`
`HER­2 + breast cancer
`
`Singulair
`
`Lantus
`
`Zocor
`
`Nexium
`
`Zyprexa
`
`Asthma
`
`Diabetes
`
`Dyslipidemia
`
`Gastroesophageal reflux
`
`Schizophrenia
`
`Source:   FirstWord
`
`2011
`
`2011
`
`2000
`
`2010
`
`2011
`
`2010
`
`2011
`
`2011
`
`2011
`
`2002
`
`2007
`
`2010
`
`Whether peak annual Humira sales will ever
`reach the Lipitor benchmark is open to
`conjecture. Current consensus forecasts indicate
`that sales of the anti­TNF product will peak at
`around $11.2 billion in 2016, before a steady
`decline driven in part by loss of market share to
`oral alternatives, such as Pfizer’s Xeljanz. That
`said, if Humira can maintain the growth
`momentum seen in Q4 2012, these estimates
`may be revised upwards.
`
`Tellingly, each of the products in the list
`above best positioned to record an increase in
`peak annual sales over the next five years is a
`biologic; Humira, Enbrel, Rituxan, Herceptin
`and Lantus being the chief candidates. This is
`driven by a number of factors – the later launch
`of certain brands, for example – but also
`illustrates the robustness of leading biologic
`franchises that do not face direct substitutable
`generic competition.
`
`Thus, a number of the biggest selling biologic
`therapies are forecast to deliver substantial
`cumulative revenues once they have passed peak
`year sales. Roche’s Rituxan is a case in point –
`consensus forecasts indicate peak sales of $7.3
`billion in 2015, although annual revenue is then
`expected to remain pegged at around the $7
`billion mark for a number of years.
`
`A lack of small molecules expected to deliver
`significant growth moving forward demonstrates
`both the effects of the patent cliff and reduced
`ability by the industry to bring more products of
`this type/revenue scale to the market.
`
`10/14/2015
`
`The Best Selling Drugs of All Time; Humira Joins The Elite ­ Forbes
`
`http://www.forbes.com/sites/simonking/2013/01/28/the­best­selling­drugs­of­all­time­humira­joins­the­elite/print/
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`Closer analysis of cumulative sales across the five
`biggest selling products on a peak annual sales
`basis provides for some interesting trends. Four
`of the five products (Humira being the exception)
`were launched within a two year period (1997­
`1999) – a statistic which tells its own story.
`
`The first observation is that from a commercial
`perspective Lipitor is a truly unique product,
`having generated cumulative global revenues of
`approximately $130 billion since 2000. Former
`head of Pfizer R&D John LaMattina has
`described its sales performance as an
`“aberration” that will not be repeated (the ramp
`in sales between 1997 and 2000 – when revenues
`reached $5 billion – is best described as
`staggering).
`
`Of the other products it is the small molecule,
`primary care drugs Plavix and Seretide that have
`accumulated the highest revenues over the past
`11 years, at $73 billion and $62 billion,
`respectively. However, the susceptibility of this
`product type to generic erosion is illustrated by
`forecast cumulative revenues for Plavix over the
`next five years, at $16.1 billion. Seretide – which
`is likely to avoid direct substitutable competition
`for most of this period despite loss of patent
`exclusivity – is forecast to deliver cumulative
`sales of $32.2 billion.
`
`Reflecting in part its later launch – but also its
`market characteristics as a biologic – Humira is
`forecast to contribute revenues of around $58
`billion between 2013 and 2017, while Enbrel is
`forecast to contribute $45 billion. Thus Humira
`will further cement its status as one of the
`industry’s biggest selling products of all time over
`the next few years, and given uncertainty both in
`terms of branded and biosimilar competition,
`perhaps will catch the peak annual sales level set
`by Lipitor.
`
`The list of pharmaceutical products detailed
`above reflects the ‘golden age’ of the blockbuster;
`the industry is no longer able to deliver products
`that hold this level of commercial potential to the
`market with nearly as much regularity. Indeed,
`looking at current late­stage pipelines, there is
`only one product that analysts are confident will
`deliver peak annual sales in excess of $5 billion
`in the medium term; Gilead Sciences’ oral
`hepatitis C treatment sofosbuvir.
`
`10/14/2015
`
`The Best Selling Drugs of All Time; Humira Joins The Elite ­ Forbes
`
`http://www.forbes.com/sites/simonking/2013/01/28/the­best­selling­drugs­of­all­time­humira­joins­the­elite/print/
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