30 Jun 2004
Univar consolidates and strengthens its approach to the Personal Care and Pharmaceutical industries
In a move that has further focused its efforts on delivering value to customers, Univar Ltd has consolidated its operations by creating a dedicated sales and services contact for the specialist personal care and pharmaceutical markets. In place since 1 January, the new organization is already making a positive contribution to improved customer services.
According to David Jones, Managing Director, Personal Care & Pharmaceutical Division, Univar Ltd: “By creating a single contact point we have clarified and shortened the lines of communication with our customers. This has simplified our interface with the market and positioned us to respond more rapidly to customers’ needs. Moreover, to ensure the right response we have an expanded team of specialist account managers, three for personal care and two for our pharmaceutical business, who fully engage with all aspects of customers’ needs including product blending and sampling.”
The commercial team includes the key appointments of Jason Harrop as Sales Manager UK, and Rachael Lewis who fulfils a newly created marketing planning role, which gives emphasis to meeting customers’ evolving future needs.
The Personal Care & Pharmaceutical Division builds on the platform of Univar’s former Anstead International subsidiary, a world-class supplier of high quality specialty ingredients for personal care and pharmaceutical formulations. “This consolidation and strengthening,” says Jones, “is geared to ensuring that each customer is able to access the individual attention, time and expertise necessary to achieve the ingredient solution that best suits his needs. And we believe that our customers are already benefiting from that advantage.”
Univar Ltd operates from a state-of-the-art headquarters located at Basildon, Essex, UK. This purpose-built 25,000 ft2 (2,325 m2) facility includes temperature-controlled warehousing with computerised product handling. Further facilities comprise a laboratory complex where product testing and formulation is conducted according to industry and customer specifications. Univar Ltd ‘s Quality Management System is approved to BS EN ISO 9001/2000 and is committed to meeting the pharmaceutical industry's current Good Manufacturing Practice (cGMP) guidelines.
Offering the broadest specialty ingredient portfolio of any distributor in the UK, and with access to global product sourcing through its parent company, Univar Ltd can meet virtually any customer need. This one-stop sourcing capability is supported by fully integrated product distribution and back-up services that include comprehensive technical assistance, product development, in addition to formulation and testing.
Drawing together over 40 years of experience in distributing ingredients sourced from the world’s leading producers, as well as its own formulated and branded products, Univar Ltd has an outstanding reputation for delivering a high level of technical service and application expertise to an established UK customer base. It is intended that the new organisation will add further breadth and depth to those services.
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Univar PCP
Rachel Lewis
UK Marketing Manager
Personal Care and Pharmaceutical
International House
Zenith
Paycocke Road
Basildon
Essex
SS14 3DW
United Kingdom
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About Univar
Univar N.V. is a chemical distribution leader in North America and Europe, with annual sales of approximately 5 billion euro. The company serves customers in key industry sectors from a broad-based product offering sourced from the world’s foremost chemical producers. Customer sectors include amongst others: food, pharmaceutical, personal care, natural resources, cleaning products, polymer and plastics, paints and coatings, metallurgy, textile. They are supported through an extensive network of 195 centres located throughout the USA, Canada and 14 European countries. For more information: www.univarcorp.com