Corporate Milestones 1991-1995
1995
January
Quintiles, Inc. opens office in Bethesda, Maryland, to provide services in the Washington, D.C., area.
February
Quintiles GmbH opens offices in Weil am Rhein to serve clients in southern Germany and Switzerland.
Quintiles Asia Inc. opens office in Osaka to provide clinical research services to clients in the region
March
Quintiles acquires pharmaceutical and biotechnology product development facility in Edinburgh, Scotland, to expand services worldwide.
April
Quintiles Laboratories Ltd. opens their European Coordination Center in Belgium to provide project management and investigator services for the central laboratory in Europe.
May
Quintiles acquires Benefit, a health economics company with operations in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Canada. A Benefit office opens in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Quintiles acquires San Diego Clinical Research Associates, a clinical research organization specializing in regional monitoring as well as allergies and infectious and respiratory diseases.
June
Quintiles opens Quintiles East Asia Pte Ltd. in Singapore to provide training and clinical trials capabilities to that region.
Quintiles opens office in Copenhagen to support clients in the Nordic countries.
September
Quintiles acquires G.D.R.U. Limited, a Phase I drug development facility in London. November Quintiles Preclinical Services forms to combine the preclinical capabilities of Toxicol and Quintiles Edinburgh.
Quintiles establishes the Emerging Companies Institute (ECI), providing customized services to meet the special product development needs of emerging biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies.
Quintiles completes a successful secondary stock offering with net proceeds to be used for general corporate purposes, including the acquisition and development of additional businesses, services and technologies.
1994
February
Quintiles opens office in Brussels, Belgium, for further European expansion.
Quintiles Australia Pty Limited opens a satellite office in Melbourne to expand regional monitoring services in Australia.
April
Quintiles Transnational Corp. completes an initial public offering of Quintiles stock.
Quintiles, Inc. opens office in Cranford, New Jersey, to serve clients in northeastern United States.
October
Quintiles Australia Pty Limited opens a satellite office in Adelaide to expand regional monitoring services in Australia December Quintiles S.r.l. opens in Milan, Italy, for further European expansion.
1993
June
Quintiles Australia Pty. Limited opens in Sydney to expand services in the Pacific Rim.
August
Quintiles Asia, Inc. opens in Tokyo to expand international services to Japanese clients.
1992
May
Quintiles S.A. opens in Paris to provide clinical research services to clients in southwestern Europe. August International Clinical Research Corporation, specialists in clinical trials involving CNS drugs, joins Quintiles as a wholly-owned subsidiary.
1991
March
Quintiles GmbH opens in Neu-Isenburg, Germany, to augment services to European clients.
November
Quintiles Laboratories Ltd. opens in Atlanta, Georgia, to provide clinical trial laboratory services to clients developing health care products.