Brief Overview: Biopure has two new products namely Oxyglobin and Hemopure. Oxyglobin is a first of its kind‚ new blood substitute for the veterinary market and has passed all the tests and is ready for consumer use. Hemopure is another such blood substitute for the human market and it will take a minimum of two years to launch the product from now. There is a concern about creating an unrealistic price expectation for Hemopure by marketing Oxyglobin before Hemopure. Whereas another point of view
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Brief Overview: Biopure has two new products namely Oxyglobin and Hemopure. Oxyglobin is a first of its kind‚ new blood substitute for the veterinary market and has passed all the tests and is ready for consumer use. Hemopure is another such blood substitute for the human market and it will take a minimum of two years to launch the product from now. There is a concern about creating an unrealistic price expectation for Hemopure by marketing Oxyglobin before Hemopure. Whereas another point of view
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In addressing the issue‚ the following were considered: a sensitivity analysis for potential consumption of different price series‚ associated revenues and costs‚ and gross profit from different distribution methods. It is recommended that Biopure: 1. Introduce Oxyglobin immediately at a price of $100 to veterinarians. 2. Have an independent sales force distribute the product to maximize profits. 3. Advertise Oxyglobin in both veterinarian journals and trade shows. 4. Establish
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Biopure Corporation Case Study Richard Addington PHD Table of Contents 1. Executive Summary 2. Situation Analysis a. Human Blood Demand b. Human Blood Pricing c. RBC limitations 3. Internal Environment d. Strengths and weaknesses of Oxyglobin e. Strengths and weaknesses of Hemopure 4. External/Competitive Environment f. Baxter g. Northfield h. Biopure 5. Animal Blood Market 6. Marketing Plan i. Positioning j. Pricing
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in its ability to market its blood substitute technology for both animal and human use. Further‚ Biopure has the patents and FDA approval to forge ahead in the animal market with a two-to-five year time buffer from new competition (using similar technology). One of the company’s weaknesses is that it has not received FDA approval on Hemopure‚ and there are two other companies that could beat Biopure to the market with similar products. But if the FDA does not approve Hemopure‚ which could have
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Background Analysis Company Biopure Corporation (“Biopure”) was founded in 1984 with the primary goal of developing a human blood substitute‚ a product with the oxygen-carrying property of blood but without many of the limitations of donated blood. No blood substitute has received approval for any use anywhere in the world‚ but Biopure is one of three promising competitors in the field. After many years of research and development‚ Biopure just received FDA approval for the commercial launch of
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oxygen requirements in a broad range of potential medical applications. The main issue that is plaguing Biopure is how the possible launch of Oxyglobin will affect the future launch and pricing strategies of Hemopure‚ which could provide a larger return for their investment. Biopure’s strength lies in their ability to market its blood substitute products for both human and animal use. Biopure has a product that has been approved by the FDA for animal use and has the intellectual property that will
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veterinarians and trade fair attracted 2‚000 to 10‚000 veterinarian each. In additional to all the strategies above‚ we recommend BioPure to launch campaign “Love Me Love My Pet” in order to increase awareness to people and encourage them to save pet’s life like our own. For people not to differentiate human life and animal life but rather think of it in the same aspect. BioPure should joint this campaign with non-profit organizer and government in order to emphasize the important of the issue publicly
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How best to exploit the opportunity presented by Oxyglobin without jeopardizing the potential of Hemopure is a tough problem for Biopure’s executive. According to the financial analysis‚ it is suggested that Biopure begin to sell Oxyglobin at $150 per unit to emergency care practice at the Veterinary Blood Market and have its own distribution network. This will make a profit of $5 million at first year and $17 million thereafter. The steadfast income will consolidate Biopure’s financial structure
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units (1 million surgeries with requirements of 1-2 units / surgery). Trauma: Out of the 0.5 million trauma cases / year‚ currently only 10% received the blood on-time‚ while the remaining 90% had to wait until the victim arrived to the ER. We consider that this 90%‚ equivalent to 0.45 million cases would be the potential market for the product. The average units/patient for this cases is 3.2‚ thus the potential market in units is of 1.46 million units / year. Chronic anemia: the total current
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