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Hikma announces licensing agreement with Takeda
Hikma announces licensing agreement with Takeda.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 2206O Hikma Pharmaceuticals Plc 17 August 2017 \n\nPRESS RELEASE\n \n \nHikma announces new licensing agreement with Takeda for products in the Middle East and North Africa\n \n· Enhances MENA product offering in strategic therapeutic areas\n· Reinforces commitment to provide high-quality medicines to patients\n \nLondon, 17 August 2017 - Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC (Hikma) (LSE: HIK) (NASDAQ Dubai: HIK) (OTC: HKMPY), the multinational pharmaceutical group, today announces that through its wholly owned subsidiary Hikma Pharmaceuticals LLC, it has agreed to expand its licensing and distribution agreement with Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (Takeda), a global, research and development-driven pharmaceutical company, adding new products to its portfolio in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).\n \nMazen Darwazah, Vice Chairman and CEO of MENA and Emerging Markets said, \"Our large sales and marketing teams, with particular expertise in promoting cardiovascular and diabetes treatments, are well positioned to drive patient access for Takeda's products. We are pleased to be building on our partnership with Takeda to bring important medicines to the MENA region. By working with global partners we are strengthening our product portfolio in growing therapeutic areas and reinforcing our commitment to improving patient access to quality medicines.\"\n \nDanilo Cassani, Vice President and Area Head Near East, Middle East & Africa added, \"At Takeda, we put patients at the centre of everything we do. As such, our partnership with Hikma is a testament of our commitment to offer patients world-class cardiovascular and metabolism (CVM) medicines while keeping focus on our core therapeutic areas of oncology and gastroenterology. This will help better serve the unmet medical needs of patients.\"\n \nUnder the terms of the agreement:\n\n\n\n\n· \n\n\nHikma has been granted the exclusive rights to manufacture and commercialise three of Takeda's leading primary care product families - Vipedia™ (alogliptin), including Vipdomet™ (alogliptin/metformin) and Incresync™ (alogliptin/pioglitazone) (anti-diabetic), Edarbi™ (azilsartan), including Edarbyclor™ (azilsartan/chlorothal...