Chapter 177 One Hundred Million
"The prescription is secret and will not be passed on to others. I understand!" He Youlong showed great interest in the prescription. "Doctor Li, how much do you plan to sell a bottle of your weight loss pills for?"
Li Quan had never really thought about how much the bottle should be priced at.
However, any weight-loss drug on the market that is really effective will cost at least five thousand yuan per course of treatment.
The effect of his weight loss drug is definitely better than any other one on the market.
Moreover, it is purely natural, not a western medicine or chemical product, and is safe and harmless.
Why is the word "harmless" put in quotation marks? Because it is only relative to the weight loss pills on the market, it will not have obvious negative effects. It will definitely cause some harm to the body.
All medicines are poisonous.
No matter how good the medicine is, it can be poisonous and harmful.
A pharmaceutical industry tycoon once said that if a drug is truly labeled as having no harm to the body, then this drug is either a health drug or a fake drug with no medicinal value.
Truly good medicines are all harmful to the body.
It must cause harm to the body before it can cure the disease.
"One course of treatment for my medicine is ten bottles. As for the specific efficacy, I believe Mr. He has also seen that one course of treatment can basically turn a fat man like Liu Chu into a normal body. In addition, my medicine is a traditional Chinese medicine, and I understand the ingredients and medicinal properties of each medicine. The harm they cause to the body is almost negligible."
"That is to say, there are basically no side effects. It is at least a hundred times safer than the Western medicine weight loss drugs on the market."
After Li Quan introduced the efficacy and dosage of the weight-loss drugs, he changed the subject.
"Mr. He is a successful drug dealer. I wonder what you think is a reasonable price for my weight loss pills?"
When drunk, be 70% sober.
Although Li Quan looks like he is drunk, he is actually very clear-headed.
Mr. He gave a meaningful smile.
"Haha, I thought Doctor Li was just an expert in medicine, but now it seems that he is also good at doing business! You are the lifesaver of my wife and son, so I will not beat around the bush or play any tricks, and will talk to you openly and honestly."
"Based on the efficacy of your weight loss drug, the market price can be set at 600 to 700 yuan per bottle. A course of treatment is about 6,000 to 7,000 yuan. However, we have to deduct advertising fees, profits of distributors, public relations fees, management fees, production costs, etc. If the production of your drug is not complicated and can pass high-level clinical trials, the public relations fees and production costs will be very low."
Mr. He is indeed a big shot among pharmaceutical companies. He knows all the cost budgets of a drug very well.
Public relations fees, everyone understands this.
It is the cost of making arrangements to ensure that the drug can obtain relevant licenses and certificates and be successfully marketed and sold.
It is not necessarily bribery of officials from regulatory departments, but rather normal expenses such as treating people to meals and handling formalities.
The procedure for obtaining a drug license is very complicated.
Need a professional to do the legwork.
If someone who doesn't know much about the business goes to apply for this certificate, he may not even be able to get it.
It is normal if it cannot be done in one or two years.
It's not that the regulatory authorities are deliberately blocking you, but there are indeed many procedures to go through and a lot of safety data to provide.
If drugs are not strictly controlled before they are put on the market and someone dies or an accident occurs, it is no joke.
"Doctor Li, let me tell you this. Your medicine is priced at 700 yuan per bottle. If I were a drug manufacturer, the shipping price could not exceed 500 yuan. The profit of 200 yuan needs to be left to the distributors, medical representatives, doctors, pharmacies and other people involved in the sales process. Only when everyone can make money can the medicine be sold well."
"In addition, after deducting the cost of the medicinal materials, the cost of a bottle of medicine should be controlled within 150 yuan. If it is mass-produced, I mean the shipment volume exceeds one million bottles, the cost will hopefully be reduced to less than 120 yuan."
This cost includes advertising fees, employee salaries, production equipment, factory buildings, packaging and other expenses.
The largest share of this should be advertising costs.
If it were someone else, Mr. He would definitely not tell us these detailed cost data.
He told Li Quan this mainly because he wanted to express enough sincerity.
Because he really wanted to work with Li Quan.
"That is to say, if a bottle of medicine is sold for 700, minus the various costs above 320, and then minus the cost of the medicinal materials, it is the pure profit. If you actually get it, it will definitely not be that much, because you still have to pay taxes."
Mr. He continued.
After hearing this, Li Quan realized that the money he earned from selling a bottle of diet pills was much less than he had imagined.
He really doesn't understand these aspects.
"Doctor Li, could you please tell us the cost of the medicinal materials?" Mr. He asked tentatively.
"The cost is not expensive. The cost of medicinal materials for a bottle of medicine is probably only a few cents." Li Quan hesitated for a moment and finally decided to tell the truth.
Mr. He suddenly became more interested.
"It's just . The cost of the medicinal materials is extremely low. If they can be mass-produced and put on the market, it will definitely be a huge profit. It's possible to make hundreds of millions of dollars a year."
Mr. He paused and asked directly.
"Doctor Li, are you interested in transferring this secret recipe? As long as it really has the powerful therapeutic effect shown just now, I am willing to spend 100 million to buy it."
"One hundred million..."
Li Quan was frightened.
I never thought that I could sell a weight loss pill recipe from Tao Hongjing for 100 million yuan.
Sophie's family's assets are estimated to be only tens of millions.
It should be less than 100 million.
In other words, if Li Quan just nods his head now, his wealth will surpass that of Sophie's family.
In the morning, I was still worrying about the 100,000 yuan dowry.
Now, Li Quan suddenly felt that money was just a number.
One hundred million yuan, even if you deposit it in a bank, the daily interest would be at least ten thousand yuan, right?
He could never spend all that money in his lifetime.
But people always have to have bigger ideals and ambitions.
When Li Quan was still studying, he knew that foreign countries were far ahead of China in many pharmaceutical fields.
Some advanced foreign drugs, such as targeted drugs and anti-HER2 drugs, are incredibly expensive. Foreign pharmaceutical companies mark up the prices by thousands or even tens of thousands of times and sell them to the Chinese people.
Every time he saw these messages, Li Quan felt angry and humiliated.
Now, God gave him a chance.
Maybe in the future we can build our own pharmaceutical factory, form a research and development team, and develop the most advanced medicine in the world, so that our people will no longer have to suffer from the slaughter of foreign profiteers because of illness.
No longer have to be controlled by others.
Li Quan thought it was not worthwhile to sell the secret recipe of weight loss pills for 100 million yuan.
As people around the world live better, obesity will become more common.
The market potential for weight loss drugs is huge.
This is a goose that lays golden eggs. You can't just sell it like this.
However, he now has no factory, no equipment, no experience and no funds.
Cooperating with Mr. He may be a very good choice.
Benefits can be shared, not divided.
Since there is money, we all make it together.
"Mr. He, if I don't want the 100 million, but instead cooperate with you to produce weight-loss drugs and share the profits, would you be willing?" Li Quan asked tentatively.
"Haha, quite interesting. I admire you more and more. You are so young, yet you are not confused when facing 100 million. You can still keep a cool head . You are the most outstanding young person I have ever seen."
Mr. He praised with a smile.
"Haha, you make it sound like you're so old!" Li Quan laughed happily.
He intuitively felt that Mr. He would agree.
