Elanco reaches for growth in billion-dollar itchy dog market
The Indianapolis-based company received U.S. regulatory approval last week for its second medicine in 18 months in what it describes as the $1.3 billion dog dermatology market.
The Indianapolis-based company received U.S. regulatory approval last week for its second medicine in 18 months in what it describes as the $1.3 billion dog dermatology market.
An Elanco spokeswoman said cuts to the company’s Indiana workforce are “very minimal.” Most of the eliminated positions are from the company’s planned closure of its German R&D facility.
David Ricks, speaking Thursday during a panel at the annual BioCrossroads Life Sciences Summit, also called for Purdue and Indiana universities to upgrade their lab facilities.
Indianapolis-based Alloy Partners says its OneHealth Studio, a venture studio that quietly began operating last month in partnership with Elanco Animal Health Inc., will be ready to create its first startups early next year.
Despite reporting a loss, the company saw quarterly growth in the double digits and raised its full-year earnings estimate.
It took only a five-line clause in the state’s August land sale to Elanco Animal Health to bring down what was left of a nearly 100-year-old crane bay along the western bank of the White River.
Indiana’s growing partnership with Portugal includes imports like rubber, plastics and chemicals, the latter of which is driven largely by pharmaceuticals, according to a Portuguese trade representative.
As Elanco Animal Health Inc. settles into its new home in Indianapolis, leaders in Greenfield have turned their attention to the future of the company’s former corporate campus.
A demolition ended plans to turn the crane bay structure into an events pavilion that could host farmers markets, weddings, corporate gatherings and other activities.
At Wednesday’s ribbon cutting, Elanco CEO Jeff Simmons said the new, three-building campus and developing OneHealth Innovation District “will write the history for the next 70 years of Elanco.”
The Indiana Economic Development Corp. approved $10 million in federal funding for the planned OneHealth Venture Studio, which will operate on Elanco Animal Health’s new Indianapolis campus.
The sales momentum comes as Elanco prepares to open its $200 million-plus corporate campus next month on the west side of downtown Indianapolis.
Retention of the crane bay structure had long been considered an integral part of the stamping plant redevelopment by neighbors and city leaders.
“The governor has been very clear: We’re just not in the land development business, and it’s not a core competency,” Commerce Secretary David Adams told IBJ.
Indiana Gov. Mike Braun said the agreement “enables Elanco and its partners, including Purdue University, to accelerate the creation of an innovation district in downtown Indianapolis.”
Elanco Animal Health last week released what CEO Jeff Simmons called its best quarterly earnings since its 2018 spinoff from Eli Lilly and Co.
As the Greenfield-based animal health company prepares to move into its new neighborhood, it’s working with community partners to help ensure some of its new neighbors have adequate food access.
The company, which makes vaccines, antibiotics and other animal-health products, said it now expects full-year revenue of between $4.57 billion and $4.62 billion.
Greenfield-based Elanco Health on Monday announced the $295 million cash sale of future U.S. royalty and milestone rights for the human use of a medication typically used for dogs and cats.
Greenfield-based Elanco said the facility has played a vital role in producing a number of product lines for the firm, representing $160 million to $180 million in annual farm animal revenue.