Profile

Sagentia, formed as Scientific Generics in 1986, is an international product development and technology consulting organisation. In 2006, the company changed its name to Sagentia to coincide with the company’s 20th anniversary.

History

Sagentia’s heritage is linked to that of the 'Cambridge Phenomenon' – the high technology cluster based around Cambridge University in the UK that emerged in the 1980s. Sagentia was founded by Professor Gordon Edge, one of a small number of key individuals who have played a central role in the development of the cluster into the globally recognised position that it occupies today.
The company grew through the 80s and 90s, moving headquarters from their initial base near the Cambridge Science Park

Cambridge Science Park

The Cambridge Science Park, founded by Trinity College in 1970, is the oldest science park in the United Kingdom. It is a concentration of science and technology related businesses, and has strong links with the nearby University of Cambridge....

 to the current location in Harston, just south of the city of Cambridge

Cambridge

The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...

 in 1995.

Sagentia Group is currently listed on the Alternative Investment Market

Alternative Investment Market

AIM is a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange, allowing smaller companies to float shares with a more flexible regulatory system than is applicable to the main market....

 (AIM), and is a founder member of the Cambridge Network

Cambridge Network

The Cambridge Network is a commercial business networking organisation for business people and academics working in technology fields in the Cambridge area of the UK...

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The CEO is Brent Hudson, appointed in 2009 . In 2010, Martyn Ratcliffe purchased a significant stake in the company and was appointed Chairman .

Current business

Sagentia currently operates in 3 key global market sectors: medical, consumer products and industrial products.

The range of services offered cuts across all market sectors including product development

New product development

In business and engineering, new product development is the term used to describe the complete process of bringing a new product to market. A product is a set of benefits offered for exchange and can be tangible or intangible...

, design and build, intellectual property analysis and strategy and opportunity discovery at the front end of innovation.

Clients include: Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson is an American multinational pharmaceutical, medical devices and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. Its common stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the company is listed among the Fortune 500....

; AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca

AstraZeneca plc is a global pharmaceutical and biologics company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's seventh-largest pharmaceutical company measured by revenues and has operations in over 100 countries...

; BT; Department of Trade & Industry; Hasbro

Hasbro

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; PepsiCo

PepsiCo

PepsiCo Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York, United States, with interests in the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 with the merger of the Pepsi-Cola Company...

; Vodafone

Vodafone

Vodafone Group Plc is a global telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest mobile telecommunications company measured by revenues and the world's second-largest measured by subscribers , with around 341 million proportionate subscribers as of...

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The company has offices around the world: Cambridge, England; Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Hong Kong and is ISO certified: ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 13485:2003.

Awards

The company has won several awards in recent years:

• February 2009 - Safaricom & Vodafone won Best Mobile Money Service category in the GSM Global Mobile Awards 2009 for M-Pesa
  M-Pesa
  M-PESA is the product name of a mobile-phone based money transfer service for Safaricom, which is a Vodafone affiliate. It was initially developed by Sagentia before transitioning to IBM...
  
   developed for Vodafone by Sagentia
• December 2008 - ERBI Medtech Innovation Award .
• April 2008 - won the Technology, the Innovation and the overall Best Private Sector Project Awards at the Management ConsultingAwards for the M-Pesa
  M-Pesa
  M-PESA is the product name of a mobile-phone based money transfer service for Safaricom, which is a Vodafone affiliate. It was initially developed by Sagentia before transitioning to IBM...
  
  product .

Spin-outs

Sagentia created many spin-out companies over the years, including:

• CMR - listed on AIM, CMR Fuel Cells develop fuel cell 'stacks' for portable and small stationary power generation applications.
• Sphere Medical Holdings- Sphere Medical develop products that help raise the standard of critical care around the world.
• Intrasonics Ltd - mobile–TV interactivity
• TurfTrax Ltd - listed on AIM, originate and distribute data and data products to enhance horse racing, and the products of the associated betting industry and media suppliers, world wide.
• Sensopad - works with a unique sensing and identification technology.

In 2008 the company announced a change in direction moving away from venturing and focusing on the core consulting business.

External links

• http://www.sagentia.com
• http://www.sagentiagroup.com
• Financial Times
• Business Weekly
• New water meter register developed