Sidney Taurel
Sidney Taurel
Sidney Taurelis a Moroccan-born American businessman. He is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Eli Lilly and Company. He became chief executive officer in July 1998 and chairman of the board of directors on January 1, 1999. He was succeeded as chief executive officer by John C. Lechleiter on April 1, 2008. He now serves as an advisor at Moelis & Company...
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While the first quarter was a challenging quarter, it underscores the importance of building a strong pipeline and effectively launching new products,
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Our strong bottom-line results in the first quarter reflect the execution on our commitment to grow sales at a faster rate than our expenses.
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Our overall growth for the next several quarters will be generated from newer product sales, line extensions of existing products and recent product launches, ... As a result, we will rely less on Prozac sales growth.
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In a year of urgent needs, Lilly and its employees stepped forward with extraordinary efforts. To ease the suffering of hurricane and earthquake victims, we gave essential medicines, cash, and supplies. To ensure that seniors and low-income patients had affordable access to drugs, we offered six patient assistance programs. And to halt the spread of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, we partnered with the World Health Organizations and other groups to share expertise, improve treatment, and save lives.
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I hope they won't push too much farther. If they stopped right now, it'd be fine with me.
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That means up to 10 products that will be launched between 2001 and 2004, which will help us weather the storm,
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During his tenure, Charlie used his broad business experiences and sound judgment to help steer the company through many challenges over the past decade. Through Charlie's leadership, we have built a world-class financial organization and strengthened Lilly's reputation for sound financial operations, transparency in our financial reporting, and strong internal controls.
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We are asking for a rehearing on the decision by the appeals court, and if that fails we have the option of going to the Supreme Court, so the case is not over,
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the right dose of the right drug to the right patient at the right time.
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As our product line continues to become more diversified, we have become less dependent on Prozac performance. Major products introduced in the last five years accounted for fully one-third of our sales in 1999 and had a combined growth rate of 41 percent during the year.
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I am committing all the necessary resources of the company to address these issues, ... We will continue to work closely with the FDA in order to deliver on our promise to bring these innovative new medicines to patients as quickly as possible.
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Now that we've done all this, our destiny is in our hands. It's up to us to perform. This new structure will help us better execute our strategy.
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We want to be sure that our leadership team is in the best position to help people throughout the company deliver for the customer now and in the future. John's new role is an important step in making that happen.
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As we see the cost-containment methods being used by the private sector being now applied now to this Medicare business, I think those plans will extract higher and higher discounts from the industry,