Homegrown pharmaceutical firm Lupin Ltd is rationalising its product portfolio in the US, transitioning from simple oral solid medicines to more complex generics to overcome the impact of price erosion witnessed in the market, according to the company's CEO Vinita Gupta. With its planned product pipeline for complex generic medicines in the next two years, she said in the years to come the company hopes to have up to 40 per cent of its revenue coming from such medicines in the US market. "...Oral solids (are) still the bread and butter (for the company), but the kind of price erosion one has witnessed on the oral solid side, we decided that it made sense to rationalise the portfolio that does not make sense," she told analysts. Gupta further said, "Whether it's negative margin or low margin, it makes sense to really take the overhead out of our P&L (profit and loss) to improve profitability. We are taking those steps." She was responding to a query on Lupin's strategy to counter ..
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Lupin's performance was skewed on revenues front amid US and India posting lower than expected sales while RoW and South Africa saw better than anticipated traction this quarter.
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Quarter was challenging due to 'headwinds in the US on account of price erosion', says company.
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The Mumbai-based company said it is committed to providing affordable treatment options to healthcare providers and patients
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