co.don AG: positive business performance in 2012
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co.don AG, one of the leading companies in the production of autologous
cartilage cell transplants for the treatment of articular and vertebral damage,
can look back on a positive financial year 2012. The strategy of securing the
Germany market - also as a reference for the planned international activities -
is succeeding. According to preliminary figures, revenue here rose by about 21%
(unaudited). Including the sales performance in foreign markets, total revenue
growth of around 16% to ?2.7m was achieved in 2012 (unaudited).
Thanks to the acquisition of two new investors, co.don AG received funding of
some ?3.9m. The shareholders' meeting adopted a proposal from the Executive
Board and Supervisory Board to create new approved capital of ?3,554,292 and
authorised the Executive Board to increase existing share capital to ?10,662,876
when the new approved capital is entered in the commercial register. The capital
increase was carried out in August 2012. The shareholders' meeting also passed a
resolution to expand the Supervisory Board from three to six members.
The additional capital will in particular cover the substantial expenses for
clinical trials and therefore of applying for a central marketing authorisation
for co.don AG's main product from the European Medicines Agency (EMA). In June
2012 the recruitment phase was successfully completed for the Phase II clinical
trial. In December 2012 the full set of approval documents was filed with the
European Medicines Agency in London. The product can still be sold in Germany,
the main sales market for co.don AG, until the marketing authorisation is
granted, because the company applied for the appropriate approval from the
national German federal authority before the deadline. At the same time co.don
AG is intensifying its marketing and sales activities in non-EU countries.
In March 2012 co.don AG was the main sponsor of the First Berlin Cartilage
Symposium. Some 120 physicians from Germany and abroad met to discuss the latest
developments, current methods and their experiences of regenerative articular
surgery. As the symposium was such a success, a second event will take place on
12 April 2013.
In June 2012 the American patent office granted co.don AG a patent to produce
autologous intervertebral disc cartilage cell transplants. The company has
therefore been able to protect its production process in one of the world's
largest sales markets for healthcare.
The orthopaedic department of the Agaplesion Elisabethenstift hospital in
Darmstadt became the first clinic in Germany to be recognised as an official
teaching centre by the International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS). Since
2006 the consultant Dr. Thomas Schreyer has applied the method developed by
co.don AG to treat cartilage damage in the knee joint.
"Joint preservation before joint replacement - over 5,000 knee and spinal
cartilage patients have already been treated. According to the experts who use
the treatment, the success rate is 85%", explains Dr. Baltrusch, CEO of co.don
AG. Compared with other therapy options the treatment is often much more gentle
and in Germany the costs are reimbursed by both statutory and private health
insurance. Every year more than 175,000 knee replacement operations are carried
out in Germany. "With our procedure", says co.don CEO, "cartilage damage can be
repaired gently and replacement surgery often averted."
About co.don(®) AG:
The company is based in Teltow, Brandenburg, and was founded in 1993. Since
2001 the biopharmaceutical specialist has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock
Exchange (ISIN: DE000A1K0227). co.don AG(®) uses tissue engineering - the
cultivation and growth of autologous tissue cells - to develop innovative
products and therapeutic concepts for the orthopaedic and neurosurgical markets.
The cell-based biological drugs (autologous cell transplants for articular
cartilage and intervertebral disks) are produced without the use of antibiotics,
growth factors and genetic engineering. The Executive Board of co.don(®) AG is
made up of Dr Andreas Baltrusch (CEO) and Ms Vilma Methner (COO, CSO).
Further information is available from: www.codon.de
Press contact
co.don AG
Matthias Meißner
Warthestraße 21
Tel: 0049 3328 43 46 37
Fax: 0049 3328 43 46 43
Email: pr(at)codon.de
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