They've made so much money off of it already that it's just an investment. Like any other company, it's simply considered to be a good business practice to have the ability to produce enough supply of your product to meet demand.

And for the time being they need to meet the demand for their drugs one way or another, whether it's building a new facility (the demand is currently very high - building takes too long) or buying facilities from a contract manufacturer. They've chosen to find a way to meet the demand themselves. By manufacturing it yourself, you have more quality control too.

Even once there are enough bad side effects associated with the semaglutide drugs that the public starts shying away from using them, there's always something else new in development. When that happens they'll already have the pipeline in place to produce it. If the next 10 or 20 drugs they come up with don't take off like the semaglutide drugs have done, they can still set up contracts with other drug companies to use those facilities to manufacture drugs for other drug companies.

It's a win-win for them.


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I suspect we've only just begun to see the sheer number of places online that will sell compounded stuff that they claim to be semaglutide with that sort of overnight delivery advertising.