Global Bio-Pharma CMO Market Report

Large pharmaceutical companies increasingly turn to contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs) solely to achieve efficiencies in cost, capacity and time-to-market, or to obtain a specific expertise not available in-house. Today, these factors still play a role, but now the most dynamic driver behind the use of CMOs in the bio-pharmaceutical industry is the integration of innovative and state-of-the-art process and production technologies.

The global bio-pharma CMO market has witnessed high growth over the last few years. The share of the CMO market of the total Bio-Pharma market has also increased over the period 2001-08. The growth in the bio-pharma CMO market has been fuelled by the outsourcing trend. Over the years outsourcing has become more of a strategic decision as companies look to lower their cost and capital requirements of setting up a plant.

However, some factors like global economic crisis, intellectual property risk, increasing regulatory cost and lack of integrated CMOs are acting as a roadblock in the path of overall industry growth which the industry players need to tackle in order to grow in the long term.

The bio-pharma CMO market can be segmented into Mammalian CMO market and Microbial CMO market. The largest share of the Bio-Pharma CMO market is held by the Mammalian CMO market.

The current report analyzes the bio-pharma CMO market. The various drivers, opportunities and the challenges faced by the market are discussed in detail. The competitive aspect of the market is also highlighted and the key players are profiled with their strategies for this market.

By combining SPSS Inc.’s data integration and analysis capabilities with our relevant findings, we have predicted the future growth of the industry. We employed various significant variables that have an impact on this industry and created regression models with SPSS Base to determine the future direction of the industry. Before deploying the regression model, the relationship between several independent or predictor variables and the dependent variable was analyzed using standard SPSS output, including charts, tables and tests.