Horizon Pharma's CEO Discusses Q2 2012 Results - Earnings Call Transcript

I will now turn the call over to Tim.

Tim Walbert

Thanks Bob. Good morning everyone and thank you for joining the call to discuss our second quarter 2012 results. I will begin this quarter’s conference call by discussing our results and the progress of our ongoing commercial launch of DUEXIS in the United States. And also I will discuss the recent U.S. FDA approval of RAYOS, where we are extremely pleased with the broad indications we received and the inclusion of rheumatoid arthritis data in the approved product prescribing information.

First, results we present today for DUEXIS show continued progress in prescription demand. We reported increase for DUEXIS of 91% gross revenues compared to the first quarter of 2012. We also reported an increase in total prescriptions for DUEXIS of 81% versus the first quarter of 2012. Bob will provide you more detail on DUEXIS revenue later on in this call.

To further our focus to driving sales growth to DUEXIS in the U.S. we are now focused on finalizing the expansion of our initial 80 person sales force to 150 sales representatives. In addition, we recently announced the co-promotion agreement with Mallinckrodt which is a pharmaceutical business of Covidien. We believe Mallinckrodt expertise in the distribution of pain therapeutic along with their experienced sales force in the osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis market is well suited to successfully help us market DUEXIS to their exclusive target.

Our sales force expansion along with this co-promotion will enable us to significantly expand our reach and frequency against key high value prescribing physicians to treat patients with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis. We believe the combination of our additional Horizon sales representatives along with the substantial promotional efforts of Mallinckrodt will increase our [call on] position target to five-fold from 10,000 physicians to 50,000 physicians beginning in the fourth quarter. Todd Smith will comment further on this in his remarks.

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