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Merck Revenues by Geography (billion US$)<br />

United States Europe, Middle<br />

East & Africa<br />

Source: Company’s Annual Reports<br />

Merck & Co.<br />

Japan O<strong>the</strong>r<br />

Strategic Direction<br />

Merck will cont<strong>in</strong>ue "aggressive licens<strong>in</strong>g" next year <strong>in</strong> a bid to <strong>in</strong>crease<br />

bus<strong>in</strong>ess, and cope with <strong>the</strong> costly recall of Vioxx. The company expects to<br />

close 50 licens<strong>in</strong>g deals. A key strategy is to lower costs at all levels and make<br />

processes more efficient and cost effective.<br />

Their strategy will also focus on <strong>in</strong>vestigation and <strong>in</strong>-licens<strong>in</strong>g compounds,<br />

useful technologies and new ideas for drug development. In <strong>the</strong> field of<br />

<strong>in</strong>tegrated research, <strong>the</strong> company entered <strong>in</strong>to an agreement with H. Lundbeck<br />

A/S (Lundbeck) to develop and commercialise gaboxadol <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> United States,<br />

a compound for <strong>the</strong> treatment of sleep disorders, licensed to Lundbeck by a<br />

third party and currently <strong>in</strong> Phase III development.<br />

2000<br />

2001<br />

2003<br />

Biotech Initiatives<br />

Merck has partnered with Alnylam<br />

<strong>Pharmaceutical</strong>s, a small biotech company<br />

<strong>in</strong> Cambridge, Massachusetts work<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> field of RNA <strong>in</strong>terference, or RNA-i.<br />

Ano<strong>the</strong>r venture of <strong>the</strong> company is with<br />

Aton Pharma, Inc., a biotechnology firm<br />

work<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> areas of cancer drugs.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> field of genomics Merck has<br />

established a subsidiary, Rosetta<br />

Inpharmatics, which is leverag<strong>in</strong>g<br />

technologies such as gene expression<br />

profil<strong>in</strong>g to improve <strong>the</strong> discovery and<br />

development of new medic<strong>in</strong>es for<br />

diseases such as cancer, diabetes,<br />

Alzheimer’s disease and obesity.<br />

In terms of DTC, Merck is devot<strong>in</strong>g more<br />

resources to <strong>in</strong>novative communications for<br />

physicians via <strong>the</strong> Internet, offer<strong>in</strong>g both<br />

branded (product specific) and unbranded<br />

(general disease <strong>in</strong>formation) services. The<br />

company has also worked on enhanc<strong>in</strong>g<br />

service and <strong>in</strong>formation for its vacc<strong>in</strong>e<br />

customers. After a major make-over of<br />

MerckVacc<strong>in</strong>es.com, key customer<br />

registrations tripled and about 20% of<br />

registered customers purchased vacc<strong>in</strong>es<br />

via this Internet site.<br />

Strategic Analysis of <strong>the</strong> Pharma Market, Future Revenue <strong>Models</strong> and Key Players 63

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