Kerry Bio-Science and Foremost Farms USA form strategic alliance

Published: 20-Oct-2006

Pharmaceutical excipient producers Kerry Bio-Science Sheffield Pharma Ingredients and Foremost Farms USA have formed a strategic marketing alliance that will significantly strengthen their combined market positions.


Pharmaceutical excipient producers Kerry Bio-Science Sheffield Pharma Ingredients and Foremost Farms USA have formed a strategic marketing alliance that will significantly strengthen their combined market positions.

The strategic alliance will enable pharmaceutical companies to consolidate excipient purchases from one source, due to the availability of rennet-free, Kosher-certified, cGMP-compliant anhydrous and monohydrate lactose excipients and contingency manufacturing.

With effect from 1 January 2007, the worldwide sales and marketing agreement gives Sheffield Pharma Ingredients a leading share of the global lactose excipient market. A business unit of Kerry Group plc, Sheffield Pharma Ingredients will develop and support excipient production at both the Kerry Bio-Science Sheffield Pharma Ingredients site in Norwich, US, and the Foremost Farms USA plant in Rothschild, Wisconsin.

Kerry Bio-Science Sheffield Pharma Ingredients will assume responsibility for the sales, marketing and technical support of Foremost Farms USA NF lactose products for pharmaceutical applications. In addition, Sheffield Pharma Ingredients will support new spray dried and monohydrate product development at Foremost Farms. New products are currently in development at both the Kerry Bio-Science Sheffield Pharma Ingredients and the Foremost Farms USA manufacturing sites.

'This agreement brings together more than 100 years of pharmaceutical innovation and excellence,' said Tim O'Reilly, global business director, excipients, at Kerry Bio-Science. 'Our Sheffield brand is now uniquely positioned to collaborate in drug and delivery development with customers from early clinical development to final dose formulation. The Foremost Farms USA product line and expertise will provide unmatched technology capabilities and reduce time to market for innovative products.'

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