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Overall, Schering-Plough shares in approximately 50 percent of the profits of the joint venture with Merck, although there are different profit-sharing arrangements for the cholesterol products in countries around the world. Schering-Plough records its share of the income from operations in "Equity income," which totaled $566 million in the 2007 fourth quarter, an increase of 40 percent versus $403 million in the fourth quarter of 2006. Schering-Plough noted that it incurs substantial costs such as selling, general and administrative costs that are not reflected in "Equity income" and are borne by its overall cost structure.
There is a separate co-marketing agreement with Bayer for ZETIA in Japan, where the product was launched in June 2007.
Sales of Global Pharmaceuticals for the 2007 fourth quarter totaled $3.0 billion. Included in the fourth quarter of 2007 are $409 million of net sales related to Organon, the OBS human health business.
Sales of REMICADE increased 35 percent to $455 million in the fourth quarter of 2007 due to continued market growth and expanded use across indications. REMICADE is a treatment for inflammatory diseases that Schering- Plough markets in countries outside the United States (except in Japan and certain other Asian markets) for rheumatoid arthritis, early rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriatic arthritis, plaque psoriasis, Crohn's disease, pediatric Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.
Global sales of NASONEX, an inhaled nasal cortico
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