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Eisai’s UK investment to create 300 UK jobs

04-Dec-2008

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Eisai says that its £60m expansion of its R&D facility in Hatfield in the UK will create 300 new jobs, swelling its workforce to 500.

The 7,000 square foot facility will serve the firm’s clinical R&D, production and sales operations as part of the Japanese drugmakers efforts to consolidate its European operations.

In a press statement Eisai said that it considers the local scientific expertise and experience as key to its expansion plans in European drug market.