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Strategic Perspectives: Best Practice Promotion in Respiratory Disorders - Analyzing Promotional Expenditure in Asthma, COPD, and Allergic Rhinitis

Published by: Datamonitor

Published: Dec. 2, 2002 - 144 Pages


Table of Contents


ABOUT DATAMONITOR HEALTHCARE

About the Immune Disorders and Inflammation pharmaceutical analysis team

CHAPTER 1 Executive Summary

1.1 Scope

1.2 Datamonitor insight into promotion within the asthma market

1.3 Key metrics

CHAPTER 2 Strategies and Recommendations for Best
Practice Promotion

2.1 Anti-asthmatic gold standards

Leading products and companies

The physician viewpoint

2.2 Physician-based promotional recommendations

Sample heavily in the US and lightly in Europe

Sponsor more educational meetings and send out less mail

Ensure that detailing is helping and not harming your business - retrain your reps
frequently

Do not neglect delivery devices when promoting drugs

DTC advertisements are getting mixed reviews in the US, while physicians in
Europe fear their introduction

When detailing physicians who are not specialists, reduce the quantity of data
presented but not the quality

‘It’s pretty amazing to see what promotion can do’: promotional activity influences
the prescribing habits of the vast majority of physicians

2.3 Models of best practice

Launch strategies

Post-launch strategies

CHAPTER 3 Introduction to Promotion in the Respiratory
Market

3.1 The importance of promotion in the respiratory market

Maturity of the market

Increasing genericization

Cost-containment measures

Low disease awareness

3.2 Promotional spend in the respiratory market

CHAPTER 4 Promotional Expenditure Trends in the Anti-Asthmatic
Market

4.1 Overview of promotional spend in the anti-asthmatic market

4.2 Variations in promotional spend in anti-asthmatics by country

4.3 Variations in promotional spend in anti-asthmatics by class

4.4 Variations in promotional spend by key products

Beta2-agonists

Corticosteroids

Leukotriene antagonists

Combination products

4.5 Physician viewpoint

4.6 Case studies

Singulair: a marketing strategy success story

GlaxoSmithKline versus AstraZeneca: does promotional spend correlate with market success?

Country comparisons

Channel mix comparisons

GlaxoSmithKline shows high ROI across classes, as compared to AstraZeneca

CHAPTER 5 Appendix A

5.1 The CAM Group: data collation and methodology

Glossary of terms

5.2 Contributing experts

5.3 Physician questionnaire

5.4 Defining the respiratory market: EphMRA codes

5.5 Data coverage

5.6 Data

5.7 List of tables

5.8 List of figures

5.9 Bibliography

CHAPTER 6 APPENDIX B

6.1 About Datamonitor

About Datamonitor Healthcare

Datamonitor Healthcare’s research and analysis methodologies

6.2 Datamonitor Healthcare’s therapy area capabilities

About Immune Disorders and Inflammation

Datamonitor Healthcare’s consulting expertise

Datamonitor’s Therapeutic Consulting expertise

Key therapy team members

Simon Hemsworth, Director of Therapy Area Analysis

Simon Wright, Director Immune Disorders and Inflammation

David Abramson, Therapeutic Lead Consultant

David Luckenbach, Managing Analyst Immune Disorders and Inflammation

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Abstract

Introduction: Effective marketing is a driver of sales in any disease market. However, the dynamics of the respiratory market have resulted in promotion becoming the key determinant of product success. In particular, the role of DTC advertising remains controversial, but a correlation between investment in DTC advertising and sales generation in the respiratory market can be demonstrated, with companies that invest heavily in DTC promotion maximizing their returns.Scope: * Unique data and detailed analysis on respiratory market promotional spend in the seven leading markets: US, Japan, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, UK * In-depth analysis of promotional spend by year, channel, country, disease, company, class, and brand * Case studies featuring leading respiratory players: GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, and Merck * Recommendations on promotional best practice in the respiratory market. Report Highlights: Promotional prowess, not clinical effectiveness, drives commercial success. The dynamics of the asthma market mean that promotion is the key determinant of product success.The launch and graduation to blockbuster status of Merck’s Singulair demonstrates that effective marketing can more than compensate for the barriers to success presented by a clinically average drug.Investment in DTC advertising correlates with sales generation in the respiratory market; companies should invest heavily in DTC to maximize returns. Reasons to Purchase: * Access unique promotional spend data to quantify marketing effectiveness in the respiratory sector * Compare best practice promotional strategies with the market leaders * Understand how physicians' prescription patterns are influenced by promotional activity, and which channels they respond to * Benchmark your promotional activity against the market leaders

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