Drug research firm Covance plans $17.5M expansion, 203 jobs
Plans call for the company to spend $11.8 million on the real estate improvements and another $5.7 million on new IT equipment and freezers.
Plans call for the company to spend $11.8 million on the real estate improvements and another $5.7 million on new IT equipment and freezers.
A Covance Inc. investor contends in a lawsuit that the drug-testing company’s board erred in relying on what the shareholder called Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s conflict-tainted advice. Covance has major laboratory operations in Indianapolis.
New Jersey-based Covance Inc., which employs about 1,500 workers in Indianapolis and Greenfield, has agreed to be acquired by Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings for $6.1 billion. According to Bloomberg News, North Carolina-based LabCorp wants to add contract research services for drug companies to its offering of medical diagnostic tests, the companies announced Monday. Covance […]
Covance manages clinical trials for drugmakers including locally-based Eli Lilly and Co. It employs about 1,500 workers in Indianapolis and Greenfield.
The New Jersey-based pharmaceutical research company is seeking state and local incentives as part of the expansion, which would include a new laboratory, set to be finished in 2016. Covance already employs 565 workers at the site.
With President Barack Obama looking to squeeze a bit more revenue out of the pharmaceutical industry, the stakes just keep
getting higher for Eli Lilly and Co.’s efforts to develop drugs faster and cheaper.
Greenfield Labs operation expects to add 17 Eli Lilly and Co. workers after taking over staff of 264 in 2008 acquisition.
The Hancock County Council this morning unanimously approved a tax-incentive agreement that should lead Covance Inc. to add
315 jobs at its Greenfield Laboratories.