Ash Stevens recognised as a top performer at the 2016 CMO Leadership Awards
The 2016 awards also included a new award category that recognises CMOs that have excelled in one or more of eight 'individual attribute' performance categories
Ash Stevens, a leading provider of global contract pharmaceutical drug substance development and active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing services, recently received recognition at the 2016 CMO (Contract Manufacturing Organisation) Leadership Awards Ceremony as an overall top performer in all five core performance categories.
The award ceremony took place at the 'W' Hotel in New York City on 16 March 2016. This is the second consecutive year that Ash Stevens has been recognised in all five categories, albeit the 2015 results were conducted by a different marketing research and intelligence firm using different criteria methodology.
This year, the five CMO Leadership Award categories included Quality, Reliability, Capabilities, Expertise and Compatibility. The CMO Leadership Awards are sponsored by the industry leading publication Life Science Leader. The awards are based on independent market research data provided by the firm Industry Standard Research (IRS), which employs benchmarking methodology to measure actual CMO performance metrics over that of marketing and reputation perceptions.
The 2016 awards also included a new award category that recognizes CMOs that have excelled in one or more of eight 'individual attribute' performance categories in the areas of Cultural Fit, State-of-the-Art, Innovation, On-Time, Right-First-Time, Strength of Science and Reputation. Ash Stevens received recognition in all eight categories, making it a clean sweep for the evening.
'It is quite an honour to be recognised for the second consecutive year at the CMO Leadership Awards Ceremony in all five performance categories, particularly when two different marketing research firms and criteria were employed in 2015 and 2016 to do the metrics and both firms independently arrived at similar results,' said Dr Stephen Munk, Ash Stevens' President and CEO. 'This year's results are based mainly on feedback from respondents who have worked with us in the past 18 months. We welcome their response since customer feedback is our best source for learning and continuous improvement.'
