Pharmaceutical Analytical Testing Outsourcing Market

Company Headquarters: Darmstadt, Germany Founded: 1668 Workforce: ~60,348 Company Working: Merck KGaA (Merck) is a pharmaceutical company that offers a varied range of products subgrouped into three segments—healthcare, life sciences, and performance materials. The company delivers innovative health solutions and is dedicated to providing breakthrough solutions and technologies. The company research drugs in the areas of oncology and neurodegenerative as well as autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. It also markets cardiovascular, fertility, endocrinology, and over-the-counter products as well as products for industries such as pharmaceuticals, food, cosmetics, packaging, and coatings. It has expanded its global footprint through several mergers and acquisitions, such as the acquisition of Millipore and Sigma-Aldrich. The company is distributing its products in the following countries: China, India, Japan, Australia, Israel, United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Denmark, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Sweden, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, US, New Zealand among others.

Company Headquarters: London, UK Founded: 1888 Workforce: ~44,000 Company Working: Intertek Group plc is a one of the leading companies, which provides total quality assurance to industries worldwide. It provides various services including assurance, testing, inspection, certification, auditing, consulting, sourcing, and training. The company offers its products through its three segments namely, products, trade, and resources. Reservoir analysis is catered offered under the products segment. It offers high-quality reservoir fluids analysis for exploration and production clients across the globe. The company provides its products and services to various end-use industries, such as chemicals, construction, food & beverage, healthcare, energy, products & retail, and transportation. The company has 1,000 offices and testing facilities in more than 100 countries. ETL SEMKO (London), Alchemy Systems (US), Architectural Testing, Inc. (US), NTA Monitor Limited (UK), and Professional Service Industries, Inc. (US) are some of the major subsidiaries of the company.

Company Headquarters: Luxembourg Founded: 1987 Workforce: 45,000 Company Working: Eurofins Scientific is a leader in analytical testing services that provides clinical tests and laboratory services in drug discovery pharmacology, genomics, forensics, contract manufacturing organization (CMO), advanced material sciences, and for supporting clinical studies across multiple industries. Pharmaceutical, environment, food, and cosmetics are the major clients for Eurofins Scientific’s products. The company has around 800 laboratories across 47 countries. It has a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate and identify the safety, composition, authenticity, purity, and origin of biological substances and products, also used in clinical diagnostics. Geographically, the company operates in North America and South America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

Company Headquarters: US Founded:1977 Workforce: 200 Company Working: Toxikon is involved in preclinical contract research organization (CRO) for drug and medical device testing. Toxikon provides analytical, in-vivo, and in-vitro testing services for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industry. The services provided by the company include biocompatibility, surgical, ocular models, extractable and leachable (E&L), risk assessments, microbiology, toxicology, chemical characterization, impurities analysis, and synthesis and bioanalytical.

Company Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland Founded: 1878 Workforce: ~29,500 Company Working: SGS SA is one of the leading inspection, verification, testing, and certification companies, which sets a quality benchmark with its products in the oil & gas industry. The company has a service portfolioin line with exploring, extracting, refining, transporting or marketing oil, gas, oil sands or other hydrocarbons. It offers logging and calibration services, emissions measurements and metering consultancy services as well as it provides upstream services, such as reservoir and production fluids analysis, sample management & distribution, and unconventional resources services, for the analysis of coal bed methane, and well-testing services. Under its downstream services, it offers calibration services, facility audits, leak detection, and maintenance. It caters to the requirements of various end-use industries, such as agriculture & food, construction, energy, industrial manufacturing, mining, oil & gas, and transportation. The company has a wide geographic presence, with 2,600 offices and laboratories across the globe.

Company Headquarters: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK Founded: 1903 Workforce: 230 Company Working: Source BioScience is a healthcare and biotechnology company that operates businesses in three sectors, namely, healthcare, pharma biotech services, and life science research. The company is engaged in providing diagnostic and screening services to the healthcare sector as well as genetic analyses and biomolecular tools and products to the life science research and pharma biotech sectors. The services offered by Source BioScience in the health care sector comprises screening and reference laboratory diagnostic testing services for cancer and other diseases; whereas for pharma-biotech it offers a range of services from clinical trials, tissue pathology, immunohistochemistry, sophisticated image analysis, biomarker determination, and assay development to pharmacogenomics including genotyping and gene expression analysis.