Tuesday, July 17, 2018 Daily Archives

Difficult Q4 for Avid as it Pushes to Diversify Customers and Fill Capacity

Avid Bioservices says it has worked aggressively to expand since becoming a pure-play CDMO but needs increased customer diversification and capacity utilization to secure future growth. After selling off its internal monoclonal antibody programs to Oncologie and dropping its Peregrine Pharmaceuticals tag, Avid Bioservices completed its transition to a pure contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO). Six months on, the firm has reported a 62% year-on-year drop in its fourth quarter revenues to US$6.9 million (€5.9 million) and a fall…