Pharmaceutical Corp Backgrounder
March, 1998-No.2      News Of Interest For Pharmaceutical Corp Managers...


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Pharmaceutical Corp Realigns To Sell More And Improve Pharmaceutical Corp's Top Line

John Leone, SVP and General Manager of Pharmaceutical Corp (Pharmaceutical Corp Pharmaceuticals) recently realigned the US sales organization –focusing it on specific customer segments and strategic products. Now the sales force in the world’s largest market will be able to work more effectively than before.

Selling more and improving the top line are the Company’s first priorities for 1998–and the US realignment is a concrete example of the plans being taken to accomplish this.

Under the new set up, the Oncology Division remains unchanged, but the balance of the US sales effort will:


• Concentrate on defending RPR’s US share of the Asthma market–its largest franchise.

• Spearhead RPR’s entry into the area of Women’s Health with new HRT products.

• Capitalize on new indications for Lovenox, principally for unstable angina, and

• Support Synercid – the Company’s groundbreaking new antibiotic.


The realignment will result in a consistent national marketing strategy–a change from the more locally driven “business unit” concept which had been in effect earlier.

Changes in the existing sales forces were made by shifting sales representatives to more strategically important areas. An infectious disease sales force was added. Pharmaceutical Corp’s goals for 1998 are to grow the US business by 9% and increase sales to $1.1 billion.


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