Takeda, Others Look To Overseas Growth To Offset Sluggish Japan Market
This article was originally published in PharmAsia News
Executive Summary
Takeda Pharmaceutical and fellow Japanese drug makers share a need to look abroad for ways to increase business in a shrinking domestic market. That need was behind Takeda's largest-ever acquisition bid by a Japanese drug maker for a foreign firm, the $8.8 billion offer for the U.S. biotech Millennium Pharmaceuticals. Takeda has a weak business structure in the U.S. and Europe when compared with foreign competitors and needed an acquisition. The domestic pharmaceutical market is considered sluggish despite 4.6 percent growth last year. (Click here for more - a subscription may be required