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Pfizer Restructuring a Boon to CMOs and CROs
As big pharmaceutical companies restructure and reevaluate the way they do business, contract research and manufacturing organizations could reap greater financial rewards.


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On the basis of its past history, Blackstone is likely to hold on to PTS for three to five years, perhaps acquiring additional businesses to add to its offerings. With the favorable industry market conditions and PTS's major investments nearly completed (especially in sterile manufacturing), Blackstone is entering the contract manufacturing and development business at an especially propitious time.

Jim Miller is president of PharmSource Information Services, Inc., and publisher of Bio/Pharmaceutical Outsourcing Report, tel. 703.383.4903, fax 703.383.4905,
, http://www.pharmsource.com/.


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