Better Health, Brighter Future
Jefferies Healthcare Conference – A fireside chat with Takeda leaders
Takeda President and CEO Christophe Weber, CFO Costa Saroukos, and R&D President Andrew Plump participated a fireside chat at this year’s Jefferies Healthcare Conference. They discussed Takeda’s strong financial results for FY2021, the outlook for FY2022 and what’s driving the company’s growth momentum.
FY2021 was a year of significant topline acceleration for Takeda, with the company recording its fastest underlying revenue growth[1] since we began measuring with this metric in 2013. Our growth strategy is fueled by a balanced and diverse portfolio that includes oncology, rare genetics and hematology, neuroscience, gastroenterology, plasma-derived therapies and vaccines. Within this portfolio, our most important global products and future growth drivers—what we call our Growth and Launch Products—are addressing important unmet needs, bringing substantial value to patients and expanding rapidly to new markets.
In FY2021, Takeda further demonstrated our ability to bring new therapies to patients, receiving our highest total number of approvals in a fiscal year across Japan, China, the U.S., and Europe and leading the industry in drug approvals in Japan in calendar year 2021.
Pipeline development continues to be a priority, and Takeda has one of the most exciting and diverse pipelines in the industry—90 percent of which did not exist six years ago. The company has 10 late-stage development programs for new molecular entities that have upcoming initial filing and expansion opportunities.
We are energized by our prospects for the future! Our purpose to create better health for people and a brighter future for the world is a core foundation of our global growth strategy and will help us create value for decades to come.
View a playback of the fireside chat here.
[1] Underlying Growth is a Non-IFRS measure, i.e., a measure not calculated and presented in accordance with IFRS. See slides 36, 49 & 51 of Takeda's full-year FY2021 investor presentation (available at takeda.com/investors/financial-results) for further information about Takeda’s Non-IFRS Measures and reconciliations to the most directly comparable measures calculated and presented in accordance with IFRS.
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