Perrigo's 4th-qtr income climbs 6%

2 September 2007

USA-based generic drug and health care product developer Perrigo says that net income the the fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30, 2007, increased 53% to $19.7 million, or $0.20 per share. The firm explained that the improvement had been stimulated by higher sales of its prescription drug products, which contributed $44.1 million, up 34%.

Fourth-quarter revenues totalled $374.3 million, up 5.4% on the year-earlier comparable period. Perrigo's Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients operations achieved growth of 25% reaching $33.6 million.

In addition, turnover from other operations, consisting of Israel Consumer Products, Israel Pharmaceutical and Diagnostic Products segments, grew 2.7% to $39.3 million. Conversely, the firm's consumer health operations saw sales drop $1.0 million to $257.3 million.

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