Intas: Biosimilars Company Analysis

This analysis evaluates the company’s strategy and key strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats, and provides an overview of the company’s biosimilars portfolio, including analysis of key product profiles, examining key drivers and resistors to development, market sizing, specifics of development such as clinical trials (where available) for each key biosimilar molecule in development.

Features and benefits

• Strategic insight into the key strategies that have shaped the company's progress and/or will define its outlook going forward.
• Provides an indication of how biosimilars fit into the wider company context, and a history of deals & alliances.

Highlights

Having entered the biosimilars market in 2004, Intas currently markets four biosimilar products in India and other semi-regulated markets of Africa, Asia Pacific, and Latin America.

The company has had an active strategy of expansion overseas, but has now shifted to focus on targeting the domestic market due to lower than expected returns from biosimilars and the requirement for high levels of investment in order to penetrate major markets.

Your key questions answered

• See where Intas's portfolio of four marketed biosimilar products fit in to its wider strategy
• Assess the prospects for Intas's biosimilars pipeline, which includes the monoclonal antibody rituximab in Phase III development in India

Table of Contents

ABOUT THIS REPORT
Chapter structure
Strategic insight
Product analysis
Corporate structure
Data sourcing
Definition of biosimilars and copy biologics
PharmaVitae Explorer database

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Key findings
Intas biosimilars overview
Intas biosimilars infrastructure

STRATEGIC INSIGHT
Intas biosimilars SWOT analysis
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
Biosimilars account for only a small part of Intas’s business
Synergies with oncology generics and plasma protein products
Return to focus on the domestic market
Biosimilars face intense competition in India

KEY PRODUCTS
Intas’s biosimilar portfolio
Epofit/Erykine (epoetin alfa)
Market overview
Key competitors
Neukine and Neupeg (filgrastim and pegfilgrastim)
Market overview
Key competitors
Intalfa (interferon alfa-2b)
Market overview
Interferon alfa market size
Key competitors

CORPORATE STRUCTURE
Background
Company structure
Astron Research
Accord Healthcare
Intas Medi Devices
Intas Biopharmaceuticals
Deals and alliances
Recent developments

APPENDIX
References
Datamonitor reports
Exchange rates

List of Tables

Table: Intas biosimilars development and marketing capabilities
Table: Intas’s biosimilar brands price comparison with reference brands, 2012
Table: Intas's biosimilar/copy-biologic portfolio
Table: Sales of key epoetin brands in the seven major markets ($m), 2011–16
Table: Pipeline and marketed biosimilar/copy-biologic epoetin drugs, 2012
Table: Sales of key filgrastim and pegfilgrastim brands in the seven major markets ($m), 2011–16
Table: Pipeline and marketed biosimilar/copy-biologic filgrastim and pegfilgrastim drugs
Table: Sales of key interferon alfa brands in the seven major markets ($m), 2011–16
Table: Pipeline and marketed biosimilar/copy-biologic interferon alfa drugs
Table: Intas deal activity and biosimilar deals, 2010–12
Table: Exchange rates, 2012

List of Figures

Figure: The PharmaVitae Explorer
Figure: Intas biosimilars overview
Figure: Intas SWOT analysis
Figure: Proportion of government and private health expenditure versus personal disposable income in India and other major markets, 2009
Figure: Intas total company revenues showing share attributed to biopharmaceuticals, 2005–11
Figure: Synergies provided by overlap within Intas Biopharmaceuticals
Figure: Intas Pharmaceuticals sales, by geography, FY2008–10
Figure: Intas biopharmaceuticals' revenues, FY2008–FY2012
Figure: Intas Pharmaceuticals' revenues, FY2008–FY2012
Figure: Intas Pharmaceuticals' revenues, by geography, FY2011
Figure: Intas Pharmaceuticals' subsidiaries, 2012