Roche's 1st-qtr 2006 sales rise 22%
Swiss drug major Roche says that its first-quarter 2006 sales jumped 22% on the like, year-ago period, to 9.8 billion Swiss francs ($7.78 billion), as revenue from its pharmaceutical products rose 19%, three times the global market growth rate.
The Basle-headquartered firm, which does not disclose quarterly profit figures, said that its portfolio of cancer medicines showed a very strong performance, with income from these drugs surging 52%. Roche's flagship antiviral, the influenza drug Tamiflu (oseltamivir) saw a 37% revenue rise while the firm's diagnostics division netted 2.09 billion Swiss francs.
Strong cancer drug sales
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