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Growth Spurt: Endo Pharmaceuticals



By Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

  Table of Contents:
  1. Growth Spurt: Endo Pharmaceuticals
  2. ' Thinking Big '
  3. ' Paying it Forward '
  4. ' Base Case '
  5. ' Pain'

Endo Pharmaceuticals started out small. But it acted from the beginning as if it would be a billion-dollar company.

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Endo Pharmaceuticals: Pain-Free in 2002

Percocet manufacturer Endo Pharmaceuticals worried it might grow so fast, it installed SAP R/3 as its enterprise planning software, from its inception as an offshoot of a Dupont-Merck joint venture. Last year proved the case: The company raised its "guidance" on annual sales for the year three times. And its final estimate was still too low.

  • Sales of Percocet and Lidoderm pain drugs spur first revision of projected revenue.

  • Migration begins to fourth version of SAP customer management software.

  • Cash flow doubles; net loss reduced by 45%.

  • Still on tap: Linking Futurecast sales-forecasting software to SAP.

    Final sales for the year: $399M

    Projection raised one last time

    $380M

    Projection raised again, to $350M

    $285.5M

    Projection raised to $300M at start of Q2...

    $174.9M

    $400M

    Sales projected

    for full year:

    $280M

    300

    200

    100

    $67M

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    BASELINE Company's guidance to market on expected sales for the year, before each quarter started.

    ACTUAL Endo's sales, year to date.

    Source: ENDO PHARMACEUTICALS



     
     
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