James Andrews Grant

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.

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

Biochem Pharma, Inc. provides bioinfomatics tools, biotechnology databases and consulting services to the genomics, proteomics and biopharmaceutical industries. They provide the cutting edge strategic intelligence needed to exploit information and to develop future business strategies.