Premarin Horses: How many does it take to make a billion dollars? Part 2

WRITTEN AND RESEARCHED BY JANE ALLIN Part 2 -- Every Figure Tells a Story So let’s get started. Be warned ahead of time that this estimate is very rudimentary and relies heavily on averages and interpolation of information collected from various sources. There are three main estrogens (along with other minor estrogen analogues), collectively referred…

Premarin Horses: How many does it take to make a billion dollars? Part 1

WRITTEN AND RESEARCHED BY JANE ALLIN Part 1 -- Introduction A billion dollars – lots of zeros. And keep in mind not just a billion dollars, but a billion dollars or more year after year – this has been the profit margin of the Premarin® family of drugs since Pfizer‘s $68 billion acquisition of rival…

Wyeth wins, horses lose, in the Premarin® drug sales sweepstakes

Written by JANE ALLIN Research Analyst | Int'l Fund for Horses Since the introduction of Premarin in 1942, much controversy has followed the lucrative market monopoly of the world’s first conjugated equine estrogen therapy for the treatment of postmenopausal women. Historically, the number of PMU farms, sequestered mares and by-product foals steadily rose until the…