Novo and Lilly in race to invest the most in obesity drug production

Although both Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are making one billion-dollar investment after another in their production capacity, they are still deemed unable to meet the demand in the obesity market.
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Photo: Staff

Even though Denmark’s Novo Nordisk has just planned to invest EUR 2.1bn in an expansion of the pharmaceutical company’s factory in France, an US-based Eli Lilly is planning to invest USD 2.5bn in a brand new German factory, pharmaceutical analyst at the investment bank SEB, Martin Parkhøi, still does not believe that the two rivals in the obesity market will reach a capacity that can saturate it. 

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