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Pharmaceutical Industry
Benchmarking Metric Report 2010 - Emerging Markets

(TEMPE, Arizona) September 29, 2010 — CAPS Research publishes the first in a series of five new pharmaceutical industry benchmarking reports focusing on "Emerging Markets." In this report, emerging markets are defined as geographic regions in which pharmaceutical manufacturers do not currently have a supply management organizational presence. About 46% of the survey participants reported they do have supply management organizations physically located in some emerging market regions. One-half of the survey participants who do not yet have supply management professionals physically located in these regions reported they anticipate doing so within the next three years. Overall, 80% of the participants reported that during the next three years they expect growth within supply management organizations located in the emerging market regions.

The Pharmaceutical Industry Benchmarking Metric Report 2010 - Emerging Markets is available on the CAPS Research public website www.capsresearch.org. First time visitors will be prompted to register to access the benchmarking reports. For more information about this or other benchmarking reports, contact CAPS Research at research@capsresearch.org.

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CAPS Research is a nonprofit research organization founded in 1986 to provide leading research to our strategic-minded corporate sponsors and to the public. Our mission is to work in partnership with a global network of executives and academics for the discovery and dissemination of strategic supply management knowledge and best practices. CAPS Research is jointly sponsored by the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, the Institute for Supply Management™, and Global 1000/Fortune 500-size organizations.

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Debbie Maciejewski
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Email: dmaciejewski@capsresearch.org

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