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News Release from: LGC
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 25 November 2003
EU Footprint Expanded with New Italian
Office
LGC Promochem, Europe's most comprehensive source of reference materials, has opened a new sales office in Italy, highlighting the company's commitment to extending its network.
LGC Promochem expands Main Body:- LGC Promochem, Europe's most comprehensive source of reference materials, has opened a new sales office in Italy, highlighting the company's commitment to extending its network of international operations and expanding its Europe-wide footprint With the acquisition and integration of Erre Emme Reference Materials, a family-owned Italian company, and a new office location in Sesto San Giovanni, north of Milan, LGC Promochem srl represents an expansion of LGC Promochem's activities in Italy
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 10 Mar 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Erre Emme's customers have been transferred to the new LGC Promochem organisation, which began trading on 1 September 2003.
Commenting on the new business, Elizabeth Bewick, General Manager, LGC Promochem, said: "The opening of our office in Milan reflects LGC Promochem's commitment to the provision of excellent customer service.
Italian customers can call and speak to our experienced product specialists to obtain information about the products we offer and to obtain after-sales advice.
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Our aim is to add value for all our customers at every stage of the buying process and we see a local presence as an important way of achieving this".
Gabriella Somaschini, former director and joint founder of Erre Emme, has been appointed as Country Manager for LGC Promochem srl and also has responsibility for the General Reference Materials sales of the new business.
She said: "The move will enable us to serve our Italian customers better.
Our new home in the Laboratorio Innovazione Breda will also provide us with good contacts to university institutes and local biotech companies.
Customers will also benefit from access to the wide range of products and expertise available from LGC, LGC Promochem's parent company".
LGC Promochem offers the full range of certified reference materials, including standards and matrix materials, ensuring that it meets the exacting needs of its customers.
It also offers pharmaceutical reference substances and impurities, as well as a range of high purity solvents, and is the exclusive European distributor for ATCC cultures and bioproducts.
LGC Promochem is a single source for all laboratories across Europe, offering custom solutions and expert product advice.
LGC Promochem's suppliers include organisations such as the Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements and the National Institute of Standards and Technology, as well as US Pharmacopoeia, Mikromol, Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, Cerilliant and LGC.
Through its network of offices across Europe and India, and with its experience in reference materials distribution, LGC Promochem can provide excellent customer service, faster delivery, local technical support and assistance with import requirements.
LGC Promochem is part of the LGC group of companies.
LGC is committed to good bioanalytical practice to improve analytical data and results; LGC Promochem's customers can benefit from the rapid growth of LGC's speciality services for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries over the past two years.
LGC Promochem will be demonstrating its comprehensive range of products and services at the RICH-MAC exhibition in Milan, Italy on November 25-28.
Visitors to the LGC Promochem stand (Hall 3/1, stand F03) at RICH-MAC can place their requests for products and literature.
Alternatively, orders can be placed via LGC Promochem's interactive website at www.lgcpromochem.com which offers an advanced search facility and online ordering to account holders for over 11,000 reference materials.
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