Daiichi Sankyo

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Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited
Native name
第一三共株式会社
Daiichi Sankyō kabushiki gaisha
TypePublic KK
TYO: 4568
TOPIX Large 70 Component
TOPIX 100 Component
Nikkei 225 Component
IndustryPharmaceutical
Predecessors
  • Daiichi Pharmaceutical Company
  • Sankyo Company
FoundedTokyo, Japan (2005) (by merger)
HeadquartersDaiichi Sankyo Building A/B 3-5-1, Nihonbashi-honcho, Chūō-ku, Tokyo 103-8426, Japan
Key people
  • Sunao Manabe (Representative Director, and President)[1][2]
  • Ken Keller (President and CEO, Daiichi Sankyo, Inc.)[3]
Products
RevenueIncrease $ 9.028 billion USD (FY 2019) (¥ 981.8 billion JPY) (FY 2019)
Increase $ 1.276 billion USD (FY 2019) (¥ 138.8 billion JPY) (FY 2019)
Number of employees
15,348 (as of March 2020)
Websitehttp://www.daiichisankyo.com
Footnotes / references
[4]

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited (Japanese: 第一三共株式会社, Hepburn: Daiichi Sankyō Kabushiki-gaisha) is a global pharmaceutical company and the second-largest pharmaceutical company in Japan. It achieved JPY 981.8 billion in revenue in 2019. The company owns the American biotechnology company Plexxikon, American pharmaceutical company American Regent, German biotechnology company U3 Pharma, and recently sold Ranbaxy Laboratories in India. Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. is the producer of Benicar (Olmesartan), an angiotensin II receptor antagonist and top selling drug in the U.S. Global sales of Olmesartan in 2013 were 300.2 billion yen.

Daiichi Sankyo, Inc. (DSI) began operating in the U.S. in 2006. It is the U.S. subsidiary of Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited, and a member of the Daiichi Sankyo Group. The organization, which includes U.S. commercial operations and global clinical development (Daiichi Sankyo Pharma Development), is headquartered in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.

Daiichi Sankyo Europe, GmbH (DSE), the European subsidiary, is headquartered in Munich, Germany. The organization is responsible for development and manufacturing for 12 European countries.

Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited is a full member of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) and of the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA).

History[]

Daiichi Sankyo was established in 2005 through the merger of Sankyo Company, Limited (三共株式会社, Sankyō Kabushiki Kaisha) and Daiichi Pharmaceutical Company, Limited (第一製薬株式会社, Daiichi Seiyaku Kabushiki Kaisha), which were century-old pharmaceutical companies based in Japan. Sankyo Co., Ltd. was founded by Dr. Jokichi Takamine, who patented the isolation of adrenalin.[5][6] Takamine was also the first president of Sankyo Co., Ltd from March 1913 – July 1922.[7] In 1990, Sankyo acquired Luitpold-Werk Group, a pharmaceutical company based in Munich.[8] In 2019, Luitpold renamed itself after its American Regent brand.[9] American Regent, now based in the United States, is a subsidiary of Daiichi Sankyo.[10][11]

Kickbacks[]

As of 2015, Daiichi Sankyo was being "closely monitored" after settling charges concerning payment of remuneration to physicians in the form of speaker fees as part of company's Physician Organization and Discussion program, in violation of the False Claims Act, an anti-kickback statute.[12]

Daiichi Sankyo agreed to pay the United States and state Medicaid programs $39 million to settle allegations by the United States Department of Justice over kickbacks to doctors.[12] As part of the company's Physician Organization and Discussion program which ran from 2005 through 2011, Daiichi Sankyo paid physicians improper kickbacks in the form of speaker fees to induce physicians to prescribe Daiichi drugs, including Azor, Benicar, Tribenzor and Welchol.[12] Allegedly, payments were made to physicians even when physician participants in PODs took turns “speaking” on duplicative topics over Daiichi-paid dinners, the recipient spoke only to members of his or her own staff in his or her own office, or the associated dinner was so lavish that its cost exceeded Daiichi's own internal cost limitation of $140 per person.[12]

“Schemes such as this are particularly abhorrent,” said Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.[12] “Manufacturers and physicians who engage in them are cheating Medicare and Medicaid out of millions of dollars and threatening programs upon which many elderly and disabled Americans rely. My office will take whatever steps necessary to guard against improper alliances between manufacturers of drugs and those who prescribe them. Through our corporate integrity agreement we will be closely monitoring Daiichi.”[12]

Acquisitions[]

In 2006, Daiichi Sankyo acquired Zepharma, the OTC drugs unit of Astellas Pharma. On June 10, 2008, the company agreed to take a majority (64%) stake in Indian generic drug maker Ranbaxy, with a deal valued at about $4.6 billion.[13][14]

It acquired in June 2008, contributing a therapeutic anti-HER3 antibody to the company's anticancer portfolio.[15] The company closed U3 Pharma in 2015.[16]

The acquisition of Plexxikon, a Berkeley, California-based pharmaceutical start-up company, was completed on April 4, 2011 for $805 million and an additional $130 million in milestone payments, pending on the success of Vemurafenib (Plexxikon's lead program) an oral, novel drug that targets the oncogenic BRAF mutation present in about half of melanoma cancers and about eight percent of all solid tumors. Daiichi Sankyo is retaining US co-promotion right of the (Roche licensed) drug. [17]

On April 7, 2014, Daiichi Sankyo announced it had agreed to vote its shares in Ranbaxy in favor of Sun Pharma's acquisition of 100% of Ranbaxy through the merger process which entailed a share swap. The transaction is set to close in December 2014, pending shareholder, court and regulatory approvals and other customary conditions. On September 29, 2014, Daiichi agreed to acquire Ambit Biosciences for approximately $410 million, the deal enabled Daiichi to gain the Phase III cancer compound quizartinib.[18] On April 20, 2015, the company announced it had sold off the 8.9% stake in Sun Pharmaceutical Industries it acquired when acquiring Ranbaxy, raising $3.2 billion.[19]

It transferred 41 of its products in Japan to Alfresa Holdings Corporation for JPY 4.2 billion in 2018 in order to focus on oncology.[20] The company acquired ramosetron, nicardipine and barnidipine from Astellas Pharma in October 2019.[21]

In January 2020, the company's market value rose above JPY 5 trillion after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval and release of Enhertu,[22] an antibody-drug conjugate for cancer treatment.[23] Daiichi Sankyo developed Enhertu in cooperation with AstraZeneca,[22] which agreed in March 2019 to pay up to $6.9 billion to Daiichi Sankyo in exchange for a share of Enhertu's sales.[24][25]

The following is an illustration of the company's major mergers and acquisitions and historical predecessors (this is not a comprehensive list):

Daiichi Sankyo
 
 
 
 
Daiichi Sankyo
 

Sankyo Company, Limited

 
 

Daiichi Pharmaceutical Company, Limited

 
 
 

Zepharma
(Acq 2006)

 
 
 
 

Ranbaxy Laboratories
(Acq 2008)

 
 
 
 
 


(Acq 2008)

 
 
 
 
 

Plexxikon
(Acq 2011)

 
 
 
 
 

Ambit Biosciences
(Acq 2014)

 
 
 

Products[]

This list is not comprehensive.[26]

Oncology
Cardiovascular
  • Benicar (olmesartan medoxomil) (also sold as Benicar HCT, Azor, Olmetec, Rezaltas, Sevikar, and Tribenzor)[31]
  • Effient (prasugrel) (co-marketed with Eli Lilly and Company; also sold as Efient)[32]
  • Lixiana/Savaysa (edoxaban)[33][34]
  • Minnebro (esaxerenone) (available only in Japan)[35]
  • Nilemdo (bempedoic acid, only sold in the EU) (also sold as Nustendi)[36]
Other

Pipeline candidates[]

Select mid-stage and late-stage investigational candidates in Daiichi-Sankyo's pipeline include:

References[]

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