About our Affiliate MembersThe PIA-PR Affiliate Membership Roster
In 1997, PIA-PR incorporated the Affiliate Membership concept and invited a select group of pharmaceutical industry suppliers, vendors, consultants and professionals participate to forge a mutually beneficial long term alliance. Chosen because of their tradition of support to the pharmaceutical industry, these organizations are representative of PIA-PR’s business partners and have enriched the PIA-PR member companies with their quality products and services. Following are excerpts from the PIA-PR Affiliate Member organizations’ many products and services.
Caribbean Architects & Engineers
Caribbean Architects & Engineers has been offering integrated architectural/engineering services to the pharmaceutical industry for the last 40 years. It has a staff of over 60 professionals specialized in pharmaceutical design in the fields of architecture, process architecture, process and equipment, civil, structural, mechanical, HVAC, electrical and instrumentation & controls. Services offered range from feasibility studies, master planning, conceptual design, construction documents preparation, construction support services and other specialized service such as Environmental/Permits, validation support, on-site project management, in-plant design, project controls and others. As an affiliate of Fluor we have the capability to offer our clients worldwide resoues to meet its project’s engineering needs as well as construction, validation and maintenance services. CA&E’s client’s portfolio includes most of the pharmaceutical plants in Puerto Rico, and it was the first engineering company to receive the ISO 9001 Certification. Our drafting resoues are trained to work on ACAD, Miostation, and 3D Modeling.
Caribbean Industrial Construction
Caribbean Industrial Construction, S.E. (CIC) serves pharmaceutical, industrial and Commercial industries as General Contractor in Puerto Rico. CIC is a locally owned company established in 1983 by Fred Gallo and Gustavo A. Hermida. It’s theme, Building Better Tomorrows, has been the driving force behind the company’s success. Key to CIC’s successful growth is its firm belief in being 100% client oriented, quality driven, and safety conscience, and its cost containment and schedule awareness. CIC initially began general contracting pharmaceutical projects, including renovations, GMP upgrades, expansions and new facilities construction, such as sterile and clean rooms. In expanding during the last two years to serve industrial and Commercial sectors, CIC has provided design / build and construction management as well as general contracting services. The Associated General Contractors of America has awarded CIC the Certificate of Excellence for Safety Programs. CIC has implemented its Teaming Partners Program, a state-of-the-art program that incorporates a Continuous Improvement process.
Fiddler González & Rodríguez
Fiddler González & Rodríguez, LLP is a full-service law firm with well established practice areas encompassing nearly all areas of law. With over 95 lawyers, the firm is one of the largest in the Caribbean and Latin America. The firm has a diversified client base that includes Fortune 500 companies, commercial and industrial organizations, telecommunication conglomerates, banking and financial institutions, securities brokers / dealers, investment firms, insurance companies, real estate and development firms, entrepreneurs, technology and e-commerce firms, venture capital firms, charitable organizations, universities, government entities, and a varied array of prominent local, national, and international companies. In addition, Fiddler González & Rodríguez, LLP is involved in major projects in Puerto Rico as counsel or adviser on infrastructure projects relating to mass transit, environmental pollution control, energy (electric power), water systems, telecommunications and solid waste management.
Grupo Ferré Rangel
The Ferré Rangel Group’s many communications products and services include: The El Nuevo Día newspaper– Puerto Rico’s leading daily with a circulation of 204,000 copies Monday through Saturday and 247,000 on Sundays. Primera Hora – the island’s fastest growing newspaper, designed to meet the needs of readers with little time to browse. Primera Hora’s circulation has reached 127,000 daily copies. The El Norte and El Horizonte – two regional papers that serve Puerto Rico’s Northern and Eastern localities’ growing populations. Advanced Graphic Printing – a commercial printshop that prepares and processes various types of informative material, such as brochures and flyers, from the creative conceptual stages through publication. The El Día Directo - a client relations, customer interaction and database management company that integrates promotional and direct-mail strategies to meet specific client needs, and manages the production and coordination of event and convention registers. Pronatura – a recycling company that designs and develops programs for corporate clients. Zonai - an internet enterprise that provides the El Nuevo Día and Primera Hora newspapers’ contents on the World Wide Web and develops additional content material for specific groups. Zonai is also available to design and develop corporate websites and web pages for strategic interactive marketing, etc. A “one-stop shopping” system enables the Ferré Rangel Group to develop whatever the client needs to ensure the desired results. What distinguishes the organization and adds value to its client relations is its ability to design and develop marketing / business strategies from the creative conceptual stage through realization, production, publication and final implementation.
Hewitt & Associates
Hewitt Associates is the largest multiservice consulting provider in the world and the largest benefits consultant in the U. S. with 75 offices in 34 countries. In Puerto Rico, Hewitt Associates provides a myriad of consulting services to the pharmaceutical industry making their knowledge of the industry one of their most important assets. Their services cover many aspects of the human resources function, specializing in: Human Resources Strategy and Technology; Human Resources and Benefits Administration (Outsourcing), Organizational Transition and Change (Mergers & Acquisitions), Talent and Reward Strategies (Compensation Research and Design), Retirement and Financial Management (Plan Design, Accounting & Recordkeeping), Benefits Program Evaluation and Design (Consulting and Brokerage), and Employee Communications. PIA-PR welcomes Hewitt Associates.
IMS Health, Inc.
IMS Health (NYSE: RX) isthe world's leading provider of market intelligence to the pharmaceutical andhealthcare industries. We offer a variety of solutions to help clientsunderstand the marketplace, improve marketing effectiveness and optimize salesproductivity. With a presence in morethan 100 countries and over 50 years of experience, IMS applies leading-edgetechnologies to transform billions of pharmaceutical transactions collectedfrom thousands of sources into strategic insights. Interpreted and analyzed byIMS experts, these insights are an unmatched source of trends and perspectivesabout the pharmaceutical marketplace - precise market intelligence that can betranslated into action.
The demand for reliablemarket intelligence and accountability in global healthcare has never beengreater. From researchers and payers togovernment agencies and pharmaceutical manufacturers, healthcare stakeholdersneed to better understand the role prescription drugs play in delivery high-quality,cost-effective care. At the same time, pharmaceutical companies faceunprecedented competition for market share and pressures to maximize brandlifecycles, all while providing the value of their medicines.
In today's complexhealthcare marketplace, a growing set of audiences depend on IMS to yield themost accurate perspective of global market dynamics. Our clients rely on us for information andinsights into:
- Commercial Effectiveness: From strategy through implementation, we help clients transform their commercial models, optimize sales force productivity, and manage sales territories to align with the realities of today's environment.
- Portfolio Strategy and Post-Merger Integration: With fewer resources and greater competition, it's imperative that clients accurately access market potential and business development opportunities to optimize shareholder return. Our next generation services help clients make better informed business decisions.
- Launch Readiness and Brand Management: IMS capabilities include launch planning and implementation to speed time to market and capture peak share during the critical launch phase. For more mature brands, our services include market segmentation, positioning, lifecycle management for prescription and consumer health pharmaceutical products, and health economics and outcomes research.
- Consulting and Services: Our IMS experts provide customized qualitative and quantitative analyses to help clients identify and evaluate market trends, strategies and tactics, and develop and implement customized software applications and data warehousing tools.
Our end-to-end solutions -integrating unparalleled information, analytics, consulting and services - playa central role in supporting high-quality, cost-effective healthcare. Ourpeople bring the facts and figures to life, leveraging our extensive globalnetwork and expertise.
Kelly Services
Kelly Services, Inc. is a Fortune 500 global staffing services provider headquartered in Troy, Michigan. It offers human resources solutions that include temporary services, staff leasing, outsouing, vendor on-site and full-time placement. With more than 2,200 company-owned and operated offices in 26 countries, Kelly annually provides its customers 800,000 skilled employees who deliver general office, accounting, engineering, information technology, law, science, marketing, light industrial, education and healthcare services. Founded in 1946 by William Russell Kelly, the eator of the modern temporary help industry, Kelly had $4.5 billion sales in 2000. Kelly Scientific Resources, a business unit of Kelly Services, leads the world in dedicated scientific staffing. It currently employs more than 5,000 scientists through 80 locations in nine countries. Kelly Scientific provides scientific staffing services on a temporary, project and full-time basis to a wide range of industries.
Lopito, Ileana & Howie Inc
In 1972 three creative partners, Lopito, Ileana & Howie, joined foes to start what would later become one of Puerto Rico’s top advertising agencies. What started as a creative “boutique” is now a one-stop shopping / full service agency, offering broadcast and print retail production, strategic planning, public relations, promotions and events marketing, interactive management, research and media reseah, planning and buying. Ranked among the top ten agencies for more than 15 years, LIH still offers the same commitment to personal attention to the client, respect and pride in eative work. LIH’s client roster includes, among others: Anheuser Busch, McDonald’s, Cingular Wireless, JC Penney, Glaxo SmithKline (Pharmaceutical and Consumer Divisions), Kimberly Clark, Unilever, Hershey, The Puerto Rico Milk Industry, UBS Paine Webber, TUTV/Canal 6.
Patheon Mova Inc.
Patheon is a leading global provider of contract dosage-form development and manufacturing services to the research-based pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Employing approximately 5,000 highly-skilled personnel, Patheon’s network of modern manufacturing facilities located in North America and Europe offer more than three million square feet of best-in-class capacity. With four facilities in the United States and Puerto Rico, four in Canada and four in Europe, Patheon can meet the international requirements of its clients. Its Pharmaceutical Development Services group (PDS) offers contract pre-formulation, formulation and analytical development, clinical trial materials (CTN) manufacturing, clinical packaging and scale-up services for pharmaceutical product of essentially all types, including biopharmaceuticals. Founded in 1974 and publicly traded since 1993, Patheon has always been exclusively focused on outsourcing. We proudly serve more than 250 clientes including may of the world’s leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. PIA-PR welcomes Patheon Mova General Manager and Vice President Puerto Rico Operations Luis Albors and its Director of Sales for Puerto Rico and Latin America, José Casellas.
Pharma-Bio Serv
In February 1993, Pharma-Bio Serv was established as a service company that offered technical services, process validation, cleaning procedures, product and process transfers, process optimization, and quality and regulatory compliance programs to the pharmaceutical industry. Pharma Serv is the regulatory compliance and validation largest company in Puerto Rico. The vision of the company is to provide high quality services to the pharmaceutical and related industries to maintain or improve their quality standards and competititve value. We currently provide cGMP compliance, commissioning, process engineering, a full range of validation services including computerized and automated systems, technology transfer, safety, industrial hygiene, environmental and training services to pharmaceutical, medical devices and biotechnology industries in Puerto Rico, Latin America, US and Europe.
RICOH Puerto Rico
Lanier is the world largest single distributor of office equipment, with over $1 billion in sales. Atlanta based Lanier markets, sells and services an award-winning array of DOCutivity solutions worldwide including copier/duplicator/printer units; digital color, facsimile, continuous recording, and dictation/transcription systems; integrated document solutions; multifunctional (MFD) office products; PC based healthcare solutions; and, system integration support. Lanier has over 1,600 sales and service centers in more than 100 countries worldwide. The company was registered as a corporation in Puerto Rico in 1992 and became Lanier Puerto Rico, Inc. In January 2001, Lanier Worldwide, Inc. and its subsidiaries were acquired by Ricoh Company Ltd., a Japanese company founded in 1936. Lanier Puerto Rico, Inc. will continue operating with its brand name.
UPS
Founded in 1907 as a messenger company in the United States, UPS has grown into a $49.7 billion corporation by clearly focusing on the goal of enabling commerce around the globe. Today, UPS is a global company with one of the most recognized and admired brands in the world. We have become the world's largest package delivery company and a leading global provider of specialized transportation and logistics services. Every day, we manage the flow of goods, funds, and information in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide.
URS Caribe, LLP
URS Caribe, LLP is a multidisciplinary engineering and architectural firm with over 152 on its staff. A major group within our staff is the Environmental Engineering and Permitting Group which consists of a group of professionals dedicated to environmental affairs. They are among the most qualified environmental engineers in Puerto Rico, possessing a thorough knowledge of the environmental laws and regulations overseen locally by the Environmental Quality Board (EQB) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
La Rosa del Monte
La Rosa Del Monte Group joined PIA-PR as an affiliate Member. La Rosa Del Monte Group has been serving the Puerto Rico & Continental US Markets for the past 40 plus years and is comprised of two primary operating subsidiaries, La Rosa Del Monte (LRDM) and Data Storage Centers (DSC). LRDM has specialized in office relocations, product distribution, machinery relocations, machinery packing & crating, rigging, logistics, transportation, and project management. LRDM has expanded geographically; we now have over 10 branches in the Continental US and the Caribbean. LRDM is capable of coordinating, managing and executing all types of projects worldwide by utilizing our strategic and qualified international partners. DSC is an external service provider that delivers an integrated suite of outsourced records and information management solutions. When we combined all of our services, we offer a single vendor approach to all of your records and information storage, imaging and destruction needs, regardless of media type. DSC’s commitment is to provide the tools and expertise to assist our customers, through the implementation of “best practices”, in managing a compliant, secure, cost-effective and auditable records and information management program.
PACIV
PACIV is a control system engineering firm specializing in single source solutions of control system, instrumentation, and regulatory compliance services for our clients’ plant sites.
One of their differentiators is the fact that they have a wide range of associates who provide seamless transition, full accountability and total commitment for these inter-related services; from their nstrument technicians to support all instrumentation services needed to put together a functional control system, automation engineers who design, configure and maintain control systems and engineers and consultants with the knowledge and experience necessary to satisfactorily meet all FDA regulatory compliance requirements and industry guidelines as per ICH, ISPE (GAMP/C&Q) and ASTM.
Their unique combination of one-stop-shop, technical expertise and commitment culture allows them o minimize time to market, reduce costs through economies of scale and meet all corporate and applicable regulatory compliance agency requirements.
PACIV is a Harvard Business School case study. They have also received numerous recognitions including: The Best 20 Best Employers in Puerto Rico and Global Supplier of the Year by Eli Lilly and Company.
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