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Avacta Group appoints Abchurch

11 April 2011

Abchurch wins Financial Public Relations remit

Avacta Group plc has appointed Abchurch to provide a full financial PR and corporate PR programme to raise the profile of the Company within both the business and investment community.

Avacta is a world leading, UK-based healthcare equipment and instrumentation business, providing innovative, high value proprietary technologies and services to the life sciences/healthcare sector through two operating divisions. Avacta Analytical cuts the risk of failure in protein drug development, and Avacta Animal Health has diagnostics to test pets for disease.  

The Analytical division provides high-end analytical instrumentation and services to the biopharmaceutical sector, expected to be a $200bn revenue market by 2013, while Avacta Animal Health provides diagnostic products and services for the $1.5bn global veterinary diagnostics market. Longer term these diagnostic technologies will be transferred into the human clinical diagnostics market.

Adam Michael, Director of Life Sciences, commented: “I am extremely excited to be working with Avacta, particularly because of the outstanding engineering behind its instruments. There are multi-billion dollar, multi-national companies producing laboratory equipment for these markets, but here is a small British company, with products designed and developed in-house, already selling into the global market place. Avacta provides a research tool that is orders of magnitude better than the competition and will enable its users to significantly refine and cut the costs of their drug development process.

“We are very much looking forward to working with Alastair Smith and the Avacta team to broaden the City’s knowledge and understanding of the Company.”

Leading the Abchurch account is Sarah Hollins (Managing Director) who heads up the Abchurch Northern office, supported by Adam Michael (Director, Life Sciences & Healthcare), Simone Elviss (Account Manager) and Oliver Hibberd (Account Executive).

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Adam Michael
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