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Product Re-Launch: Transforming Lackluster Pharmaceutical Products Into Market Success Stories


Press Release
April 12, 2006

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., April 11, 2006 /PRNewswire/ -- In order to ensure a successful re-launch that will accelerate product growth and overcome initial missteps in product positioning, product re-launch teams must shape a new core message that redefines their product's identity. Brand leaders must clarify and revise their marketing to emphasize the product's strongest new features or most viable new markets.

Product Re-Launch: Transforming Lackluster Pharmaceutical Products Into Market Success Stories is a benchmarking report by Best Practices, LLC, that highlights the winning strategies, field-proven tactics and experience-based pitfalls of companies that have re-launched or re-positioned a brand. The study gathers insights from 19 brand managers across 14 pharma and biotech companies. It is available online, along with a free excerpt, at http://www3.best-in-class.com/rr673.htm.

Best Practices, LLC's research revealed that benchmarked brand managers use an assortment of tactics to redefine their product character for re- launch:

- Changing core promotional messages
- Developing a position around an unmet medical need
- Articulating product benefits as opposed to product features
- Positioning against competitor products
- Clarifying targeted patient groups
- Revising marketing materials and details

The report also provides pharmaceutical executives the insights and strategies necessary to:

- Set re-launch strategy
- Determine required marketing resources
- Align sales force with product re-launch strategy
- Learn from case studies of blockbuster re-launch drugs

To download a free except of Product Re-Launch: Transforming Lackluster Pharmaceutical Products Into Market Success Stories, visit http://www3.best-in-class.com/rr673.htm or contact Dorris Huffstetler at (919) 767-9259 or for more information. dhuffstetler@best-in-class.com

ABOUT BEST PRACTICES, LLC

Best Practices, LLC is a research and consulting firm that conducts work based on the principle that organizations can chart a course to superior economic performance by studying the best business practices, operating tactics and winning strategies of world-class companies. Our clients include 43 of the 50 leading pharmaceutical companies. For more information, call (919) 403-0251 or visit www.best-in-class.com.

CONTACT: Jason Dean of Best Practices, LLC, +1-919-767-9240, or jdean@best-in-class.com

Web site: http://www.best-in-class.com/http://www3.best-in-class.com/rr673.htm/


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