Alltech Announces Strategic Alliance Plus Partnership With SciQuest.com.Business Editors RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 1999 Alltech Associates, Inc is pleased to announce that, along with an elite group of industry suppliers, it has entered into a strategic alliance with SciQuest.com (Nasdaq: SQST) as Alltech's business-to-business partner in e-commerce. SciQuest.com offers a Web-based interactive marketplace ( http://www.sciquest.com ) for pharmaceutical, clinical, biotechnology, chemical, industrial and educational organizations worldwide. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Alltech President Rick Kurtz, "E-Commerce is a significant sales channel for Alltech Associates, Inc, and SciQuest.com is an important part of our company's future strategy to bring products to market and to serve the customer." This strategic alliance combines the market leading product offerings of prominent companies, such as Alltech, Ambion, Amersham and PerkinElmer, into SciQuest.com's comprehensive electronic marketplace services for scientific and laboratory products. Under the terms of the strategic alliance agreement, SciQuest.com will be Alltech's exclusive third-party provider of electronic marketplace services. Alltech has chosen to partner with SciQuest.com because of their strong marketing and sales expertise, extensive reach, technical capabilities and their continuing commitment to support Alltech and its product line. SciQuest.com also enables scientists and purchasing professionals to find, track and manage essential laboratory products more effectively and efficiently. The benefits of ease of access, value for money, and flexibility are making the Internet a preferred purchasing channel for many of Alltech's customers. "Delivering value-added services A value-added service (VAS) is a telecommunications industry term for non-core services or, in short, all services beyond standard voice calls and fax transmissions. in a reliable and efficient Internet environment is important to us, and we are pleased to be offering this to Alltech's customers," said Scott Andrews, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of SciQuest.com. "Our years of experience in the scientific and laboratory products arena, combined with our Web-based technologies, makes us ideally suited to uniquely meet Alltech's marketing, distribution and sales needs." About SciQuest.com SciQuest.com is a leading business-to-business e-marketplace for scientific products used by pharmaceutical, chemical, biotechnology, industrial and educational organizations worldwide. By leveraging its extensive laboratory products and supply chain management expertise with its exclusive product listings and robust portfolio of e-procurement solutions, SciQuest.com has the ability to reduce customers' procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. costs while increasing researchers' productivity. Additionally, SciQuest.com provides suppliers with a cost-effective sales and marketing channel. The company's e-marketplace is distributor-neutral and can be customized and seamlessly integrated with its customers' enterprise systems. SciQuest.com is headquartered in Research Triangle Park, N.C. with offices in Mountain View, Calif. and Plainview, N.Y. About Alltech Associates Alltech Associates, Inc is a leading manufacturer and supplier of chromatography chromatography (krō'mətŏg`rəfē), resolution of a chemical mixture into its component compounds by passing it through a system that retards each compound to a varying degree; a system capable of accomplishing this is called a products, including the most extensive line of HPLC HPLC high-performance liquid chromatography. HPLC high performance liquid chromatography. HPLC High-performance liquid chromatography Lab instrumentation A highly sensitive analytic method in which analytes are placed and GC columns available from a single source and a complete line of supplies and instrumentation for GC, HPLC, IC, TLC TLC total lung capacity; thin-layer chromatography. TLC abbr. 1. thin-layer chromatography 2. , Sample Handling and Filtration. Alltech has also developed and introduced instrumentation for chromatography that delivers improved performance and cost-saving advantages to the analytical analytical, analytic pertaining to or emanating from analysis. analytical control control of confounding by analysis of the results of a trial or test. chemist (jargon) chemist - (Cambridge) Someone who wastes computer time on number crunching when you'd far rather the computer were working out anagrams of your name or printing Snoopy calendars or running life patterns. May or may not refer to someone who actually studies chemistry. . From its principal office in Deerfield, IL, and its worldwide network of both branch offices and affiliated dealers, Alltech markets its extensive range of chromatography products on a global basis. |
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