Quintiles Transnational Corporation - Introduction

Introduction

4709 Creekstone Drive
Riverbirch Building, Suite 200
Durham, North Carolina 27703-8411
U.S.A.
Telephone: (919) 998 2000
Fax: (919) 998 9113
Web site: http://www.quintiles.com

Private Company
Incorporated: 1982 as Quintiles, Inc.
Employees: 16,000
Sales: $2.04 billion (2003)
NAIC: 541710 Research and Development in the Physical Sciences and Engineering Sciences; 541910 Marketing Research and Public Opinion Polling

Quintiles Transnational Corporation is a comprehensive provider of contract research, marketing, and sales to the global biotechnological, pharmaceutical, and medical device industries. Quintiles also provides a full range of policy consulting and disease-and-health information management services to the international healthcare industry. The services offered by the company include centralized clinical trial laboratory management, data management and biostatistics, regulatory toxicology, pharmaceutical sales and marketing, health economics and healthcare policy consulting, and the development and packaging of clinical trial materials. With offices in more than 49 countries, Quintiles operates through three major groups: Commercialization, which is responsible for strategic marketing services and sales force deployment; Product Development Services, which is responsible for all phases of clinical research and outcomes research consulting; and PharmaBio Development, which is responsible for creating unique alliances that help customers obtain Product Development and Commercialization services. Quintiles has access to unique patient-level healthcare information and data products from Verispan LLC, a joint venture co-founded by Quintiles and McKesson Corporation.