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Alliance Pharma

October 2011

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  • Epic Code:
  • APH
  • Price:
  • 30.5p
Alliance Pharma sells 44 branded generic medicines, primarily in the UK. As we said in April, there were expected to be three challenges to results for the full year. Despite the latest interims bearing these out, H1 sales were up by 4% £24.2m whilst pretax profit was down 10% to £7m. Eps was 2.4p but this was boosted by a tax adjustment.Despite the H1 shortfall, Alliance still expects to produce its second best ever full year performance.  The biggest issue, of course, has been the halving of sales of Deltacortril, Alliance's treatment for rheumatoid arthritis and asthma (from £7.1m in H1 10 to £3.6m in H1 11). That follows the emergence of a second generic competitor at the end of last year resulting in lost mark ...

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