Formerly Cardinal Health PTS, Newly Named Catalent Now Operates as Independent Company



    Catalent Pharma Solutions, formerly Cardinal Health Pharmaceutical
    Technologies and Services, today announced its official launch as an
    independent operating company. The Blackstone Group acquired the
    business from Cardinal Health in April 2007.

    Catalent is a leading provider of advanced technologies, as well
    as development, manufacturing and packaging solutions for
    pharmaceutical, biotechnology and consumer healthcare companies in
    nearly 100 countries. Catalent offers its customers nearly 75 years of
    experience in providing advanced technologies and consistent product
    supply across nearly every major dose form type, and holds more than
    1,000 patents and patent applications.

    Catalent has a long heritage of dose form innovation. Catalent
    commercialized softgel capsule technology and Liqui-Gel(R)
    formulations, created the "fast dissolve" oral tablet category with
    Zydis(R), and introduced the vegetable-based capsule VegiCaps(R) Soft.
    Catalent's proprietary drug delivery and packaging technologies and
    expertise enable customers to achieve their desired clinical and
    market outcomes, and are used in many well-known consumer health and
    prescription drug products. Catalent is also known for its
    child-resistant, senior-friendly and compliance-enhancing packaging
    designs.

    Customers will continue to rely on Catalent and its team of
    specialized experts worldwide for its advanced technologies and
    substantial expertise.

    "Catalent intimately understands the global challenges our
    customers face while developing and commercializing life-enhancing and
    life-saving drugs or innovative consumer health products," said John
    Lowry, president and CEO of Catalent Pharma Solutions. "By
    consistently providing our customers with the technologies, services
    and reliable solutions they have come to expect from us, we enable
    them to focus on their own core competencies."

    The Catalent name was created to combine the ideas embodied by the
    words "catalyst" and "talent." Catalent serves as a catalyst for
    success for its customers, enabling them to ensure product supply and
    improve product effectiveness, while "talent" underscores the
    company's breadth and depth of scientific, technical and local market
    expertise around the world.

    About Catalent

    Headquartered in Somerset, New Jersey, Catalent is the leading
    provider of advanced technologies, and development, manufacturing and
    packaging services for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and consumer
    healthcare companies in nearly 100 countries. The company applies its
    local market expertise and technical creativity to advance treatments,
    change markets and enhance patient outcomes. Catalent employs
    approximately 10,000 at more than 30 facilities worldwide and
    generates more than $1.7 billion in annual revenue. For more
    information, visit www.catalent.com.