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November 26th, 2008
Abraxis Fires AstraZeneca, Gets Fired Up
Abstract:
Buoyed by deep pockets filled with cash after it separated from its generic drug business, Abraxis Bioscience (Nasdaq: ABII) is moving into the deep end with the big boys. The platform drugmaker decided to end its marketing agreement with AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) and sell its cancer drug Abraxane by itself.
It'll cost the company $268 million to get out of the partnership, but the timing seems right; Abraxane has been competing well against the other taxanes -- Bristol-Myers Squibb's (NYSE: BMY) Taxol and Sanofi-Aventis' (NYSE: SNY) Taxotere -- in the metastatic breast cancer market and is poised for growth into other cancers. It also has compounds in its pipeline that could be sold using the same drug delivery technology, so building out now isn't unreasonable.
The agreement still needs to be approved by Abraxis' board, but a thumbs-up seems likely, because if the company stays with AstraZeneca, it will have to start paying a commission of 50% -- more than double the 22% commission that AstraZeneca currently gets.
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