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LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Vectura Group PLC said its chief executive officer CP Blackwell and chief financial officer AP Hyland lifted their stake in the company to 0.03 pct and 0.04 pct respectively after they bought its 50,000 shares each through an exercise of options at 61 pence per share.

The company also said its two non-executive directors JR Brown and AJM Richards increased their stake in the company to 0.02 pct and 0.04 pct respectively after they bought the same number of shares through an exercise of options at the same price.

Just bought an interest at 46.22p per share today. I successfully traded these before, having bought innovata shares before being taken over a year ago. I sold at 92p and have watch them fall on the general lack of interest in small phamas. This fall may have been exaggerated. Apparantly, Co. broker, Piper Jaffray estimates VEC will have net cash of around 75,000,000 or about 23p per share by end of March 2008 and values Co's 8 pulmonary and non-pulmonary marketed products at 56p per share. Presumably, therefore,its 8 late stage developments etc are not attributed a value by the market. Of course there are the development risks of failure but the Co. does spread its risks. It is interesting that Fidelity has recently increased its stake to 5% and other notified holders have been Aviva, Amvescap and Legal and General. Aggregate Directors holdings are 430,000 shares.

sp up firmly today at 47p having dropped below 38p recently.

moving up in a weak market sp 51.25p

Vectura Group Plc. announced positive data from an early proof of concept study of VR147, a product in development for the symptomatic treatment of migraine.

With the compelling data completed earlier, the company said it will assess licensing options both for VR147 and for the use of its inhalation technology for the delivery of other triptans.

VR147 is an orally inhaled triptan therapy with the potential to provide enhanced benefits to migraine patients through its rapid onset of action, the pulmonary product development company said.

The triptan market currently dominates migraine therapy, with sales in excess of $2.3 billion in 2007

Vectra continues its recovery and is up over 20% over the past week. It is working with a Novartis subsidiary on a version of blockbuster asthma drugs. It is hoped that a cut price alternative to GSK's Advair and AstraZ's Symbicort can be produced once their Patents have run out.(brief summary of IC buy recomendation). I think Advair expires around 2013.

At a presentation given at Deutsche Bank 33rd Annual Health Care Conference Co said that it had a mature product pipeline and a stage development points. Has a steady revenue stream and strong cash position and will be cash generative this year although this is not necessarily consistant depending on its developments.

As Baylis mentions re VR147 they state that triptan is a big niche opportunity and phase 1 study early proof of concept product is safe and works, in that earlier relief is given when drug is inhaled. sp 60.5p

http://webcastingplayer.corporate-ir.net/player/PlayerHost.aspx?Ev

Should also of mentioned that they have continuing success with the Girohaler which the Co licenses out and are developing a variant of Girohaler for German Company Boehringer Ingelheim for use with their products.

Finals due to be announced on 22nd May.

understandable profit taking sp 56p but believe the sp is in upward trend. Holding for now.

Vectura Group said full year sales were up 80% to 25.2m, while pretax losses widened to 21.4m compared with a restated 8.5m last time.

The inhaled drug specialist said cash at its year-end point was 78.8m compared with 77.5m last year, and added that it has spent 29.7m in R&D, a 75% year-on-year increase.

The company said it is exploring partnering one or more of its proprietary programmes, including its migraine therapy, VR147, and its sexual dysfunction programme, which includes its inhaled drugs for erectile dysfunction, VR004, and premature ejaculation, VR776.

It said it was confident that it will achieve its goal of reaching a sustainable cash-generative position, aided by substantial milestones and royalties from its partners as its late-stage respiratory programmes are filed and come to market.

The company in a statement that its good performance was down to its acquisition of Innovata, a lung product specialist, in January 2007, for 131m in an all-share deal.

'This strong financial performance is attributable to the addition of the Innovata business, which contributed over 17m, or 68%, of revenues and 8.6m of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA).

'Our goal, to become a sustainable, self-funding principal player in the development of inhaled pharmaceutical products, has been strengthened by the acquisition and is validated by these results,' it said.

The acquisition of Innovata gave it established alliances with a number of additional companies, such as Baxter International, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck Generics (part of Mylan Inc), UCB and Otsuka Corp, the company said.

Company looking to be making headway. However, sold at 56p to book a good profit. If sp weakens again through lack of interest given general market conditions, I will consider repurchase.

LOOKS GOOD

Any idea what's going on here?

A good IMS, but the price is dropping rapidly

Red

Red - I was wondering about that too and the only thing I can find is that The Naked Trader announced on Friday he'd sold his shares in Vectura.

As I commented on the Naked Trader thread, his buys and sells move the market quite dramatically nowadays.

Well that was certainly some dip, but I would have thought such a dramatic change would have prompted some comment from the company even if it was " we no of no reason ..."

Is the dip over & done I wonder!

Not a profitable company at present, but quite highly rated by some analysts.

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q/ao?s=VEC.L

Even 87p would look good!


Red

VR496 (cystic fibrosis) * Phase II proof-of-concept study results on track to read out in March 2011

Final year results out today and looking good for the future. Broker target of 120.

Peel Hunt reiterates buy with 132 target.

QVA149 Phase III study meets primary endpoint
RNS
RNS Number : 0694L
Vectura Group plc
30 August 2012



QVA149 Phase III study meets primary endpoint in reducing exacerbations in COPD patients, filing in EU and Japan by end of year



· SPARK demonstrated QVA149 statistically significantly reduced rate of moderate-to-severe exacerbations compared to glycopyrronium 50 mcg1



· Study showed QVA149 statistically significantly reduced overall exacerbation rates compared to glycopyrronium 50 mcg and open-label tiotropium 18 mcg1



· SPARK is the final study of the IGNITE Phase III clinical trial program intended for initial regulatory filings



Chippenham, UK - 30 August 2012: Vectura Group plc ("Vectura"; LSE: VEC) confirms the information released today by Novartis that results from the fifth QVA149 (indacaterol maleate / glycopyrronium bromide) Phase III study, SPARK, met its primary endpoint of a reduced rate of moderate-to-severe COPD exacerbations compared toglycopyrronium bromide (Seebri® Breezhaler®)1. SPARK is the final study intended for initial regulatory filings of QVA149 in Europe and Japan, which are expected in Q4 2012. US filing of QVA149 is expected at the end of 2014. To date, the first five studies of the IGNITE QVA149 Phase III clinical trials program have all met their primary endpoints of efficacy, safety, exercise endurance, and reduction of exacerbations1-5.



SPARK met its primary endpoint by demonstrating that patients treated with once-daily (QD) investigational QVA149 for 64 weeks demonstrated a clinically meaningful and statistically significant lower rate of moderate-to-severe COPD exacerbations compared to patients treated with QD glycopyrronium 50 mcg (p=0.038)1. The study also showed that the rate of moderate-to-severe exacerbations was numerically lower (p=0.096) in patients on QVA149 compared to open-label (OL) tiotropium 18 mcg1.



A further analysis of the data demonstrated that QVA149 was statistically significantly more effective in reducing the overall rate of all exacerbations (mild, moderate and severe) compared to glycopyrronium 50 mcg (p=0.001) and OL tiotropium 18 mcg (p=0.002)1. The adverse event (AE) profile of QVA149 was similar to both glycopyrronium 50 mcg and OL tiotropium 18 mcg1.



The management of COPD exacerbations is important to both patients and physicians, as exacerbations can impose a significant burden of morbidity, mortality, reduced quality of life and healthcare costs6,7. Frequent exacerbations are linked to an accelerated decline in lung function8,9 and patients are also known to have a poorer quality of life10. Admissions to hospital due to exacerbations are increasing11 and patients with more severe underlying disease account for around 70% of the direct medical costs of COPD12.



SPARK was a 64-week, multi-center, randomized, double-blind, parallel-group, active controlled study designed to evaluate the effect of QVA149 (indacaterol maleate 110 mcg / glycopyrronium 50 mcg) QD versus glycopyrronium 50 mcg and QD OL tiotropium 18 mcg on moderate-to-severe COPD exacerbations in 2,224 patients with severe to very severe COPD1.



QVA149 is an investigational inhaled, once-daily, fixed-dose combination of the long-acting beta2-adrenergic agonist (LABA) indacaterol maleate, and the investigational long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LAMA) glycopyrronium bromide, being investigated for the treatment of COPD in the Phase III IGNITE clinical trial program. IGNITE is one of the largest international clinical trial programs in COPD comprising 10 studies in total with more than 7,000 patients across 42 countries1-5,13-20. The first five studies (ILLUMINATE, SHINE, BRIGHT, ENLIGHTEN, SPARK) have already completed in 2012 with three additional studies (BLAZE, ARISE, BEACON) expected to complete by the end of the year. The studies are designed to investigate efficacy, safety and tolerability, exercise endurance, exacerbations, breathlessness and quality of life1-5,13-17.



Dr Chris Blackwell, Chief Executive of Vectura, commented:



"The SPARK study demonstrated a meaningful reduction in exacerbations in COPD patients; something that is of major benefit for patients and doctors and eases the burden of healthcare costs. We look forward to more detailed data from both glycopyrronium bromide (NVA237) and QVA149 at the upcoming European Respiratory Society meeting in Vienna in early September with the first filings for QVA149 expected in Europe and Japan by the end of this year."