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Quantum Pharma - Considerably less flannel from new CEO

February 2017

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  • Epic Code:
  • QP.
  • Price:
  • 47p
Quantum Pharma was founded in 2004 by two accountants, former chief executive Andrew Scaife and former finance director Martin Such. They launched the company as a supplier of unlicensed medicinal products known as “specials,” which are prescribed by a doctor for a number of chronic conditions and prepared when a licensed product is not available on the market. This is a reliable but unexciting business and their plan was to take some of the unlicenced products and convert them to licenced medicines, where margins were substantial.Their initial triumph of getting VC backers and bringing the concept to the City proved short lived as sadly the guys became a little overconfident and made unnecessary acquisitions left, righ ...

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