Obesity Market Snapshot: Marketing Partners Giving Obesity The Slow Goodbye
Executive Summary
After two years of almost nonexistent sales, analysts are ringing the death knell for the obesity market as revenues of once-promising obesity drugs continue to decline. The expectation is that virtually all of the major marketing partners will exit their respective partnerships in the near-term and more than one player could run out of cash.
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