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Product Life Spans: Trends in the Quality and Staying Power of New Products

Published by: Decision Resources

Published: Jun. 5, 2008 - 37 Pages


Table of Contents


Executive Summary

Strategic Considerations

Stakeholder Implications

Commercial Potential and Staying Power

Historical Analyses

A Conundrum—Reconciling Respectable Industry Growth Rates with Poor New Product

Productivity

Promotional Expenditure

Range Extension

Product Quality: Potential Commercial Value

Assessment of Quality, 1990-2000

New Product Quality, 2005 and 2007

New Active Substances Launched in 2005 and 2007

Number of New Products with Commercial Potential

Burgeoning Blockbusters

Longevity: Trends in Product Staying Power

The Top 50 Best-Selling Global Products of 2006

Trends in Product Longevity, 1994-2006

A More Dynamic Market

Products Exiting the Best-Selling Global Product Rankings

Products Entering the Best-Selling Global Product Rankings

Evidence of a More Dynamic Market, 1994-2006

Are the Top 50 Best-Selling Drugs Representative of Product Longevity in General?

Three Factors That Contribute to Increasing Product Quality

Ability to Capitalize on Fewer Products

Biologics’ Effect on Average Longevity of Products

Pricing

Future Trends Impacting Product Quality

Patent Expiry Trends

Factors Relating to Generics

Local Products and Me-Too Products

Multiple Indication Trends

Contribution of Biologics

Trends in Intellectual Property Periods

Product Attrition Rates

Pricing of New Generations of Products

New Product Promotion

A Positive Outlook

Tables

1. New Active Substances Launched, 2007

2. Longevity of the Top 50 Best-Selling Global Products, 2006

3. Products That Exited From the Top 50 Best-Selling Product Cohort After 2005

4. Products That Exited From the Top 50 Best-Selling Product Cohort After 1994

5. Products That Entered the Top 50 Best-Selling Product Cohort of 1994

6. Products That Entered the Top 50 Best-Selling Product Cohort of 2006

7. Top 200 Best-Selling Cohort of 2005: Longevity of the Six Smallest Products with Sales That Peaked in 2005

8. Factors Affecting the Future Commercial Potential of Products

Appendix: Ninety-Seven Products Ranked in the Top 50 Global Best-Selling Products in 1998, 2001, 2002, or 2006

Figures

1. Global First Launches of New Products, 1990-2007

2. Global Growth Rate of the Pharmaceutical Industry, 1990-2007

3. Relating Global Reach to Commercial Potential: Trends in the Launch of Global and Local New Active Substances, 1990-2007

4. Growth in the Number of Global Blockbusters, 1986-2006

5. Longevities of the Top 50 Best-Selling Products, 1994 and 2006

6. Trend in Average Product Longevity, 1994-2006

7. Annual Sales Threshold for Inclusion in the Top 50 Best-Selling Global Product Cohort, 1994-2006

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The Methodology Used to Calculate a Product’s Longevity

Abstract

The commercial potential of products in development is vitally import to the pharmaceutical industry, which is now beset with productivity concerns, looming patent expiries, and declining growth rates. Many methods are used to produce sales forecasts, but a key element in these projections concerns the product’s staying power or longevity. In this report, we provide a logical analysis based on 12 years of data (1994 to 2006) to support a longer average product longevity than the norm, which is widely used in industry sales forecasts today. We also discuss a much-needed positive indicator for the pharmaceutical industry relating to the number of new products reaching the market.

Get the Answers You Need to Shape Your Strategy
  • A major issue in pharmaceutical development is the potential commercial value of a new product.What do successful, innovative products have in common? What are the trends in product quality since the 1990s? How does the quality and commercial potential of new products compare with products launched earlier?
  • A considerable increase in product quality has been occurring since the mid 1990s, whether mediated by longevity or not. What factors are leading to an increase in the commercial value of new products and an increase in their market staying power? What factors are contributing to these positive trends? Are these trends likely to continue?
  • Going forward, powerful forces will continue to affect product quality, both positively and negatively, in the next decade. Which of these forces are of greatest concern? Will the combination of these forces exert a positive or negative infl uence overall? How long can we expect current trends to continue?
Scope
  • Product quality and potential commercial value: assessment of quality over time, including 12 years of data from annual cohorts of global best-selling drugs; burgeoning blockbusters; global versus local products; new active substances.
  • Product longevity: methodology to calculate product longevity; trends in product staying power; 97 products ranked in the top 50 global best-selling products for 1998, 2001, 2002, or 2006.
  • A dynamic market: products entering and exiting the global best-selling markets; sales thresholds; factors infl uencing the market.
  • Outlook: patent expiries and product attrition rates; the role of biologics; pricing trends; generics erosion; new product promotion.


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