CompAny pRoFilE
NAFTA headquarters for our field and product Europe and Africa
development programs and all NAFTA programs Within Europe, we have doubled the size of our
are designed and distributed from this facility. French resources, including ecotox and public
We now have the capability to conduct field health, following our acquisition of the Dow
studies throughout the entire NAFTA region via facility at Nimes and the creation of a joint
our own teams and our exclusive partners in venture with Antedis, which will be the focus of
the US and Canada, in order to deliver client our EU seeds business. Similarly, in the UK we
contracts to a high quality standard. will significantly increase our resources in 2008,
as well as establish a new regulatory and project
As a part of our expansion programme, we management service. In Italy, our exclusive
plan to establish fixed research facilities in the partner SAGEA Centro di Saggio provides services
south and mid-west of the US and in Mexico throughout the country. We have also grown our
over the next 12-18 months. Our company board operations on the Iberian Peninsula by adding
SynTech’s US HQ, Sanger, California
members realised that by adding strategically- a new exclusive partner in Portugal (AgroFile)
located fixed facilities, recruiting highly qualified and strengthening our Spanish team with new SynTech Research is a relative new comer
and trained staff, and exploiting existing facilities staff and locations, including a homogenisation in the crowded CRO market however,
and partners, SynTech Research would be able laboratory for residue samples. we have and will continue to grow at an
to provide relevant and robust services to the accelerated pace due to our Added Value in
majority of our clients in NAFTA. Our activities in the eastern regions of Europe project planning which is extraordinary to
have also grown, with our facilities in Austria traditional trial service delivery. We are and
In addition, we are planning to build a new and Hungary able to conduct trials in Southern will continue to position SynTech Research as
science base service in public health and Germany, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. In more than just another “service provider”.
veterinary medicine in the US. This will provide northern Europe, we have established a strategic Sure, if a client wants 20 trials on target x at
additional development and registration services collaboration with Redebel in Belgium. Initially, price y in countries a, b, and c, we can do it.
to our key clients for their biocide products. this was to strengthen our EU registration But some of our clients are not aware how
capabilities, but increasingly Redebel is also many trials are required and where; or we
Central and South America becoming involved in our field activities. Where see that their suggested trial program are not
Due to demand from our clients, SynTech has we do not have facilities or partnerships, we sufficiently focused. Because of our extensive
made a commitment to build a version of our have a network of established quality sub- Product Development experience when
NAFTA operation in Central and South America contractors. previously working in major multinationals,
during 2007–08. This will give us the capabilities we are able to help them develop improved
to provide field and registration services for In Africa, we have established a partnership with project plans. This may save time, and or
our clients in this region, particularly in Brazil, a quality CRO in South Africa. We are also actively study/trial numbers and so help keep Product
Argentina, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Ecuador, Columbia, considering establishing facilities in other key Development costs down, even though our
Bolivia, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Honduras. African countries and these would specifically unit price (for trials or a study) maybe higher
focus on the needs of the European region. than some of our competitors.
We will be able to provide a comprehensive
service for our clients who seek to develop Asia
global MRLs and import tolerances. We will have After two years of market research in Asia,
our own teams located in key countries such as where outsourcing is still comparatively limited,
Brazil, Argentina and Chile plus key local alliance we will start operations in South Korea and
partners elsewhere. To ensure our standards south-east Asia (centered on the Philippines)
are maintained, these partners have been from 2008. We intend to start operating a
appropriately trained and will be supervised field trial service in Japan in 2008–09. Then, in
and operate under SynTech GLP compliances. 2009–10, we anticipate establishing companies
All Central and South America programs will in both India and China. Eventually, we also plan
be managed by program management teams to establish an exclusive partnership with a local
COMPANy PROFIlE
located in the US. CRO in Australasia to deliver similar services.
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