Executive Summary: Drug Delivery Markets, Vol I: Oral Delivery

Containing a snapshot of the overall market analysis, each Executive Summary provides a description of the scope and methodology used in the report; a summary of results including market size and market growth; a sampling of charts and graphs when available; and a brief look at the trends shaping the market.

The report from which this Executive Summary is compiled is Drug Delivery Markets, Vol I: Oral Delivery, and the full study abstract is as follows:

The oral drug delivery market is the largest segment of the drug delivery market, and there’s no sign that it is slowing down. With pharmaceutical companies increasingly turning to drug delivery to extend the revenue-earning lifetime of their biggest products, and seeking to tap into the growing elderly population that requires products with a level of ease-of-use and cost benefit, it’s no surprise that the oral delivery drug market is a $35 billion industry and expected to grow as much as ten percent per year.

Kalorama’s Drug Delivery Markets. Edition 2 Volume I: Oral Delivery, the first volume of Kalorama’s popular series focusing on drug delivery systems, provides the definitive break down of the market for oral delivery drug markets. The report covers both the major technologies in oral delivery (controlled-release, delayed release, pulsatile-release, taste-masked and microemulsion formulations) and the products that use these delivery technologies.

In the reporting of market size and growth through 2010, Kalorama’s unique analysis also separates the value of the technology portion of the market from the active ingriedient portion of the market, allowing for a deeper understanding of the value of the market attributable to the delivery technologies themselves.

This focused report provides information on the revenues for relevant companies and provides information critical to assessing the opportunities available in this market, including:

• Legacy Companies in Oral Delivery as well as Recent Entrants
• Current World Wide Revenue Across Product Categories and Future Forecasts
• Challenges Faced by Oral-Delivery Technology Companies
• Success Stories and Pitfalls.
• The Trends That are Expected to Lead to Global Growth