Aptuit Wins Prestigious Scottish Training Award For Innovative Management Training Program.

GREENWICH, Conn. -- Award Highlights Aptuit's Dedication to Provide Customers with Accessible and Experienced Management To Streamline Drug Development Process

Aptuit, Inc., announced today that it has been honored with a Scottish Training Award at the 2005 Scottish National Training Awards, managed by UK Skills, for a program initiated in its Scottish facilities. Aptuit was nominated in the Partnership category for their implementation of an innovative program to develop leadership and business acumen among scientists and other professionals in Aptuit's Edinburgh-based location. The Oscar-style awards ceremony was held at the SAS Radisson Hotel in Glasgow on November 2nd.

"As the largest global provider of pharmaceutical sciences and clinical packaging and logistics services by capacity, it is essential that our senior managers have excellent commercial, business, and people management skills in addition to their in-depth knowledge of the industry," said Michael A. Griffith, CEO of Aptuit. "This program develops the tools our managers need to lead our integrated service model, the very core of our mission to engineer a better drug development process."

Aptuit's goal is to build a world-class drug development service company through acquisition and investments in talent, technologies and infrastructure. The Company has a staff of nearly 2,000 people who spearhead resources from seven global facilities that generated total revenues of over $200 million and served over 250 clients in the last year. Headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, the Company intends to invest $60 million in the business over the next three years to enhance operations, expand the product and service portfolio, and establish and support the industry's first seamless IT system that enables end-to-end customer-accessible project management and test data.

About Aptuit's Program:

The ground-breaking training and development program, developed in conjunction with Future Positive Consulting Limited, is designed to improve the leadership qualities of senior managers, increase profitability, reduce costs, and deliver structure to Aptuit's respective business units. Since its outset in 2001, the program has run 11 times and more than 130 people have been trained. The result has been a drastic reduction in voluntary staff turnover and absenteeism at their facilities in Riccarton, Livingston, and Bathgate. The program furthers Aptuit's commitment to training excellence at all of its facilities to provide experienced, horizontal management across projects. The Company plans to use this program as a model for ongoing training at all of its global facilities.

Aptuit is a leading player in the provision of drug development services, and in addition to being the largest global provider of pharmaceutical sciences and clinical packaging and logistics, it also has a global platform in preclinical services and technologies. The above program trains Aptuit's management team to develop the vision, mindset, skills, beliefs, and discipline to deliver to customers the Company's integrated suite of services including regulatory and strategic consulting, informatics, preclinical technologies, drug substance and drug product development, as well as clinical trial materials. Managers not only attend workshops, they perform business improvement projects and visit non-sector/industry companies to gain in-depth knowledge and to broaden their awareness of the business world.

About Aptuit

Aptuit, Inc. is a global leader focused on streamlining and supporting the drug development process for biotechnology and pharmaceutical innovators. The company was founded by a group of industry experts with extensive market experience who have a track record of building a similar, highly successful company through acquisitions and investment. Aptuit will provide a comprehensive suite of product development services and competencies to biotechnology companies and large, fully integrated pharmaceutical companies worldwide. Aptuit's mission is to engineer a better drug development process, and is partnered with Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, one of the world's largest private equity investors. For more information about Aptuit, please visit http://www.aptuit.com.

About The National Training Awards and UK Skills

The National Training Awards are universally recognized as the premiere training awards in the UK given to organizations and individuals who have achieved lasting excellence and success through exceptionally effective training. They are aimed at those who have decided to improve their chances of success through learning new skills. The Awards support the Government's commitment to lifelong learning, crucial to individuals' and business' success, and to the benefit of the UK economy as a whole.

The awards are managed on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills by UK Skills, an independent organization that champions skills and learning. The organization was established in 1990, with the primary purpose of raising skills levels in the UK through skills competitions. UK Skills also manages the Apprenticeship Awards on behalf of the LSC, Learning and Skills Beacon Status on behalf of DfES and the national team that competes in the World Skills Competition. For more information about the National Training Awards and UK Skills, please visit http://www.nationaltrainingawards.com.