Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Covance Revenues are up despite the Downturn Economy

ClinicalTrialsToday.com reports that Covance, biopharmaceutical drug development services company, has released very strong 4th quarter earnings in early and late-stage development segments.

Total revenue and net revenue are up from the same period last year, even though the state of our economy has faltered in the last couple of months. Joe Herring, Covance chairman and CEO, recently mentioned in a company release that:

"reduced demand in our Early Development segment from a combination of a lower level of new project initiations and increased project delays in our toxicology and clinical pharmacology services led to a sequential decline in segment revenue and operating income."

It will be interesting to see 4th quarter earnings of other clinical trials companies and see if they had comparable results.

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