Barry James Price

Shire is a global specialty pharmaceutical company marketing products to defined customer groups (specialist doctors). Sales and marketing is a core Shire competence. Shire combines investment in product development with careful attention to risk management. Shire currently focuses on three therapeutic areas - central nervous system disorders (CNS), gastrointestinal (GI) and renal diseases. Shire has particular expertise in ADHD as a result of its development and marketing of the leading brand in the US market, ADDERALL and the new once a day version, ADDERALL XR. The group has a sales and marketing infrastructure with a broad portfolio of products targeting the US, Canada, UK, Republic of Ireland, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. Shire covers other significant pharmaceutical markets indirectly through distributors. They have already appointed such distributors including, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Israel, Malaysia, Norway, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea and Thailand. It is founded in 1986

AES Chemunex SA manufactures and develops a full line of tools for microbiology laboratories. It provides microbiological rapid analysis systems intended primarily for pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and food processing laboratories. Its activities are organized into three segments: The Reagents and culture media segment. The microbiology equipment and systems segment deals with sampling tools, analyzers, incubation and temperature monitoring equipment, automatic seeding system. The services segment: After-sales services, technical consulting and training services. It markets its products under the brand names Reactifs RAL and Virion. The company was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Bruz, France.

BioSeek Plc provides human tissue-based research services for the pharmaceutical industry. It focuses on applying human primary cell assays and predictive disease models to the discovery and development of human therapeutics and safer chemicals. The company was founded by Eugene Butcher in March 1996 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

The Group's principal activity is the researching, development and marketing of prescription medicines. The Group operations focuses on three therapeutic areas - central nervous system disorders, gastrointestinal and renal diseases. The Group's marketed products for such disorders include ADDERALL and ADDERALL XR, for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, REMINYL for Alzheimer's, co-marketed with Johnson and Johnson and CARBATROL. for epilepsy. The Group is also developing a range of treatments for ADHD which may treat children, adolescents and adults extending the use of its current brand as well as researching non-scheduled compounds. The Group operates in the United Kingdom, the United States of America, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Canada, the Netherlands and the Cayman Islands.

Sarossa Capital Ltd. is an investment holding and management company. Its principal activity is investing in and growth and development of businesses which present opportunities for value creations. The company currently intends to indentify investment opportunities offering the potential to deliver a favorable return to shareholders over the medium term, primarily in the form of capital gain. The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Shire Plc is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the research, development, licensing, manufacturing, marketing, distribution, and sale of medicines. Its products include adderall, advate, adynovate, agrylin, antithrombin 3, aralast, bebulin, buccolam, feiba, firazyr, and foznol. The company was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland.

Summit Therapeutics Ltd. operates as a holding company, which engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of antibiotic medicines. The company seeks to expand its product candidate portfolio through the development of new mechanism and precision antibiotics. Summit Therapeutics was founded by Stephen Graham Davies and Kay Dame Davies in January 2003 and is headquartered in Abingdon, the United Kingdom.

Celltech Group Plc was one of the leading European biotechnology company which is engaged in discovery and development of innovative drugs. The company was located in Slough, United Kingdom.