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Quintiles Aims to Expand Business in Japan with More Employees: CEO

October 8, 2013
Quintiles Transnational Holdings CEO Thomas Pike said on October 4 that the company aims to secure human resources to expand its contract research and sales services in Japan, the second largest market for the company. “The major challenge for us…

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