Houston USA, London UK - Intertek Group Plc (Intertek), the leading international provider of quality and safety services to a wide range of industries, has acquired Alta Analytical Laboratories Inc (Alta).
Alta is a leading supplier of Immunochemistry and LC/MS/MS bio-analytical services to the pharmaceutical and biotech industries in North America. Alta has laboratories located in San Diego and near Sacramento, California with approximately 110 staff and counts major global pharmaceutical companies among its clients. Both laboratories are known for their technical expertise, rigorous compliance programs, and excellent customer service.
Intertek’s Executive Vice President and CEO of the Caleb Brett Division, Mark Loughead comments; “Alta has earned an outstanding reputation for quality and service and its expertise will further expand our ability to respond to the needs of the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry for outsourced R&D and testing support. It establishes a firm platform for further development for Intertek in the USA.” Intertek already provides testing services to pharmaceutical clients from its laboratories in the UK.
Bob Bethem and Jo Smolec, Ph.D., the Alta Analytical Laboratory business heads, comment; “Acquisition by Intertek allows Alta the ability to invest in the next phase of expansion to grow our services and offer extended expertise to our existing clients. Becoming part of Intertek’s global business and reach provides a powerful opportunity to expand our bio-analytical services to existing and new international customers and markets.”
About Intertek:
Intertek Group Plc (FTSE: ITRK) is a leading international provider of quality and safety services to a wide range of global and local industries. www.intertek.com
About Intertek’s pharmaceutical services:
Intertek provides testing and inspection services to the global chemical, petroleum and refining industries and provides a wide range of routine and non-routine laboratory testing services to support pharmaceutical, biotechnology and nanotechnology clients. A growing international network of Intertek laboratories serves clients on a global basis with services including laboratory testing, outsourcing, inspection, R&D and process services. Intertek laboratories are ideally suited to support a diverse range of fine chemical, pharmaceutical and biotech activities.
www.intertek-cb.com/pharma/index.shtml
About Alta Analytical Laboratory:
Alta Analytical Laboratory is a contract testing laboratory with two locations in California, USA; Sacramento and San Diego. Alta provides liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) and immunochemistry contract laboratory services to pharmaceutical, biotech and chemical clients. Alta provides Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) services for early drug development, and pre-clinical and clinical studies in the LC-MS/MS lab near Sacramento.
Contacts:
UK: John Conti-Ramsden, Ph.D.
Intertek Pharmaceutical Services
Telephone +44 (0) 161-721-2236
john.conti-ramsden@intertek.com
www.intertek-cb.com/pharma/index.shtml
USA: Erik Holladay, Global Marketing Director
Intertek Pharmaceutical Services
Telephone: +01.713.407.3500 (USA)
testingservices@intertek.com
www.intertek-cb.com/pharma/index.shtml
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