New Edinburgh site for labs and development will add 150 jobs
Quintiles Transnational Corp. is to build a new office near Edinburgh for its product development business in Scotland. This includes Quintiles Laboratories, and its NovaQuest group. The company will add 150 jobs in Scotland during the next four years and is investing $13 million in the new building.
The new 112,000-sq.-ft. facility will be built in Livingston, West Lothian, near the company's existing 36,500-sq.-ft. lab in Bathgate. Abbout 80,000 sq ft will be used for the laboratory business and the product development and NovaQuest personnel will move into the new building and will occupy about 25,000 square feet. Quintiles will have 390 employees at the two locations.
Quintiles is looking for opportunities to strengthen its global central lab network, according to 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."
Quintiles will sign a 15-year lease for the facility and will receive a $2.4 million Regional Selective Assistance Grant from the Scottish Executive.
Under terms of the grant agreement, Quintiles has agreed to add 150 jobs.
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