The stand-alone division will be the latest addition to a growing list of such public companies recently spun out of larger drugmakers.
Sanofi said Friday that it plans to separate its consumer health division into a stand-alone company next year, turning the 50-year-old French drugmaker into a pure-play biopharma for the first time in its history.
Sanofi’s consumer health division sells over-the-counter medicines like the allergy pill Allegra and the pain-relief cream Aspercreme. It has significantly smaller revenue than either Haleon or Kenvue, with €1.2 billion in sales in the third quarter. Kenvue’s sales for the same period were $3.9 billion.
Sanofi won’t complete the separation until the fourth quarter of next year at the earliest. It hasn’t settled the details. but says that the “most likely path” would be the creation of a listed company based in France. Sanofi is among the last of its American and European big pharma peers to abandon the diversified model that drugmakers adopted in the 1960s and 1970s. As Barron’s reported in June 2022, big pharma firms have been dumping their side businesses since the early 2000s, a process that has culminated in the past few years as virtually all of the major drugmakers have emerged as pure play biopharmas.
Demand for Beyfortus has been so strong that on Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning about a shortage, calling for rationing of doses. The Sanofi ADR is up 27% over the past 12 months, while the DRG is up 9.9%.
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