CHARLES RIVER LABORATORIES INTERNATIONAL, INC. acquired River Valley Farms, a transaction completed in January 2004.
River Valley Farms operates in Discovery and Safety Assessment (DSA), is based in United States (Minneapolis, Minnesota). Charles River acquired River Valley Farms, a privately held medical device contract research business located near Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company provided preclinical evaluation and veterinary-medicine expertise to medical device makers, with particular strength in minimally invasive cardiovascular devices such as drug-eluting stents. Charles River combined it with its existing contract surgical research group to form a new unit called Interventional and Surgical Services (ISS).
Strengthen Charles River's position as a leading provider of outsourced medical device services by adding preclinical device-evaluation and surgical capabilities, forming the Interventional and Surgical Services unit.
Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.