PPD

It appears that Wilmington’s PPD - Pharmaceutical Product Development – is no longer on the market. Rather than sell the company, as had been rumored for…

Economic growth strategy is dominating conversations from neighborhood associations to cities and counties -- to the state and federal levels. New Hanover…

UNCW’s Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, or CIE, has unveiled the business sector’s answer to match-making. At a breakfast on Thursday, the CIE…

In the wake of UNCW’s Information Technology Conference and the release of the Garner Report, the question of how to spur economic development in the Cape…

This weekend the Cape Fear region welcomes more than two thousand athletes from across the country for the sixth annual Beach2Battleship Triathlon. And…

Tomorrow marks the sixth annual Beach2Battleship Triathlon, which is sponsored by PPD, a Wilmington-based organization researching pharmaceutical…

Pharmaceutical Product Development – better known as PPD in Wilmington – announced this morning that it’s Board of Directors has named a new chairman and…

PPD’s new CEO Raymond Hill resigned Monday after only three months at his post and just a week after the company went private. PPD was sold to the Carlyle…

The $3.9 billion acquisition of PPD by the Carlyle Group and Hellman and Friedman is now complete.WHQR’s Michelle Bliss reports that company officials…