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Broader Capabilities Keep Consort On Top At Device End Of Drug Delivery

 
• By Ashley Yeo

Drug delivery technology specialist Consort Medical has capitalized on device respiratory expertise for 50 years, but a renewed focus on strategic expansion has seen it make an IP play, move into the pharma side and target other delivery formats for global pharma industry customers. Its enhanced capabilities will keep rivals on their toes.

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Consort has many wheels in motion as it expands the business to be fit for purpose in today's market • Source: Shutterstock

Bespak Europe Ltd., the UK-based drug delivery device specialist, changed its name to Consort Medical PLC in 2007, and Bespak is now one of two divisions of the group, following the 2014 purchase of Aesica, a contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) serving pharmaceutical companies. The move to acquire a pharma CMDO was carefully executed, even though Consort CEO Jonathan Glenn was convinced early on that it was the next stage in ensuring a competitive future in a segment where Bespak has dominated for five decades.

"All our major customers are trying to consolidate their supply chains, so being able to offer a service all the way from APIs, through development, to finished manufacture, together with...

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