Quintiles to Build New Structure for Expansion in Scotland

Quintiles to Build New Structure for Expansion in Scotland

June 06, 2007

Adding 150 New Jobs, Greatly Increasing Central Lab
Capacity


    RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., June 6
/Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- 

    Quintiles Transnational Corp. today announced that it
plans to build a new office near Edinburgh that will be the
Scotland home for its Product Development business,
including Quintiles Laboratories, and its NovaQuest group. 
The company also will add 150 jobs in Scotland over the next
four years.

    The new 112,000-square-foot structure -- which
Quintiles could expand to 132,000 square feet -- will be
built in Livingston, West Lothian, near Quintiles' present
36,500-square-foot laboratory.  The new building will
provide about 80,000 square feet of space for the
laboratory business.  Quintiles' Product Development and
NovaQuest personnel occupy about 25,000 square feet in a
Bathgate office, and these units also will move into the
new building.  Quintiles has 390 employees in the two
locations.

    "Our lab business is expanding -- globally and in
Europe -- because of our proximity to clinical trial sites
and our tight quality control," said Thomas Wollman,
Senior Vice President, Global Central Laboratories. 
"This new facility will enhance our level of customer
service in the UK and Europe, just as our new central lab
in Mumbai has improved service in India.  We will continue
to look for opportunities to strengthen our global central
lab network."

    The new structure will be developed and built by the
Keith Corporation of Charlotte, N.C., on the Alba Campus
business park in Livingston, about 15 miles from Edinburgh
city center.  Quintiles will sign a 15-year lease for the
facility.  Quintiles is receiving a $2.4 million Regional
Selective Assistance Grant from the Scottish Executive to
help offset some of the company's $13 million investment in
the new building.  Under terms of the grant agreement,
Quintiles has agreed to add 150 jobs over the next four
years.

    "We want to thank West Lothian Council, the
Scottish Executive and Scottish Enterprise for their
support in our project," said Graham Murray, General
Manager, Quintiles Laboratories Europe.  "Their
assistance, particularly the Regional Selective Assistance
grant, was instrumental in our decision to expand in
Livingston."

    About Quintiles

    Quintiles Transnational Corp. is powering the next
generation of healthcare by providing a broad range of
professional services in drug development, financial
partnering and commercialization for the pharmaceutical,
biotechnology and healthcare industries. With about 18,000
employees and offices in more than 50 countries, it is
focused on providing customer-centric solutions that are
the gold standard of the industry. For more information,
please visit the company's Web site at
http://www.quintiles.com .


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     Investor Relations
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