Attendance & Feedback



What people are saying
about ExcipientFest:
"ExcipientFest was very focused and one of the best organized events that we have participated in." 

"As for ExcipientFest, I feel it was one of the best shows attended this year in terms of organization, material presented and access to customers. We are planning on attending next year."

“I think ExcipientFest went extremely well and you should be proud the staff that helped put it together. We had a great time at the show. Hopefully, we will see you again at next years ExcipientFest.”

“It was a great event. We feel that it was successful and necessary for AAPS to be there. We are sure you'll see us again next year.”

"Once again,  your group did an outstanding job with ExcipientFest this May! We welcome the opportunity to participate again next year. The whole event was first class!"

"ExcipientFest... What a great event! You must be proud!"

"ExcipientFest was very well organized and we thank you for all your efforts. We thought it was a very worthwhile event."


 “My compliments to the team that made this ExcipientFest a real success. It was the first time for me to join and I must say I was very much impressed. The seminar was perfectly organized. The focus on Excipients makes the show really dedicated. The topics presented were very well received by the participants/audience. The location was excellent. The biggest players in excipients were there. Congratulations!”

“ExcipientFest was absolutely one of the best conferences I have ever been to due to the location, quality of the attendees, organizations exhibiting at the expo and the seminars. From a JRS perspective, we really appreciated all the contacts that we were able to make. This conference really provided me with a great opportunity to market JRS as well as have some fun on a personal level with the folks.”

“I spoke with many people there who were also in complete awe of the organization and the team behind ExcipientFest 2004. The team found the time to personally help each exhibitor, which you don’t normally see at other trade shows. JRS will do it’s best to continue to be a major sponsor of ExcipientFest events in the future.”

“Congratulations on the ExcipientFest Show! It is the first one I attended and was favorably impressed with the quality of the event. It is a great thing for Puerto Rico.”

“On behalf of Roquette I would like to congratulate your team for an EXCELLENT ExcipientFest Event. It was a mini AAPS, very professional from a Roquette point of view. We were able to "connect the business dots”.


Attendance Information:


· EF 2007 - Breakdown by Attendance:

Overall Attendance (+2% over 2006)
601 people
Average Attendance per day
400 people
Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Professionals
50 %
  • Technical Services/ R&D
15 %
  • Purchasing/ Materials
14 %
  • QA/ QC/ Validation
16 %
  • Manufacturing/ Engineering
5 %

Sales/ Marketing
48 %

University/ Professional Organizations
2 %

Other Service Organizations
0 %

Attendee Participation Breakdown (601)
Attendees
Percentage
  • Technical Conference Attendee
525
86 %
  • Short Course Attendee (I, II, III, IV)
89
14 %


Attendee Demographic Breakdown (601)
Attendees
Percentage
Puerto Rico
296
48 %
Off-Island Attendees
318
52 %
Off-Island Attendee Breakdown (357)
Attendees
Percentage
  • North America (USA & Canada)
290
91 %
  • Europe (France, Holland, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark)
14
4 %
  • Central America-Caribbean (Mexico, D. Republic, Argentina, Colombia)
10
3 %
  • Africa
1
0.3 %
  • Asia
5
2 %

· EF 2007 - Breakdown by Company:

Companies Overall
180 (up from 161 in 2006)
Individual- Sites/Plants/Businesses
203 (up from 182 in 2006)
Companies Overall
Companies
Attendees
  • Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Companies
74 (41 %)
230 (37 %)
  • Excipient Manufacturing Companies
43 (24 %)
198 (32 %)
  • Material Distributors
20 (11 %)
82 (13 %)
  • University/ Organizations
5 (3 %)
19 (3 %)
  • Marketing Companies
9 (5 %)
12 (2 %)
  • Others
12 (7 %)
31 (5 %)
  • Laboratories
14 (8 %)
39 (7 %)
  • Press
3 (1 %)
3 (1 %)

· EF 2007 - Attendance per Company

Company People
AAI Pharma
 3
Abbott Puerto Rico
 4
Abbott USA
 2
Able Sales
 4
AF Consulting Group
 1
Ajinomoto Aminoscience
 1
Alchemy Synergy Group, Inc.
 1
Alert Nutrition LLC
 2
Alianza para el desarollo de PR
 1
American International Chemical
 2
American Pharmaceutical Review
 1
Amgen
 2
Aqualon
 4
Asahi Kasei America
 1
Astra Zeneca
 23
Avery Dennison
 2
Barr Laboratories
 2
BASF
 9
Biddle Sawyer
 2
BioMartin Pharmaceutical
 1
Biovail Laboratories
 1
Biovail USA
 1
Blanver
 4
BMS Barceloneta
 2
BMS Humacao
 12
BMS Manati
 3
BMS Mayaguez
 1
BMS USA
 3
Borregaard
 1
Brand-Nu Laboratories
 1
Brenntag Canada
 1
Brenntag Caribe
 1
Brenntag North America
 3
Callaham Chemical- PR
 2
Callaham Chemical- USA
 3
Cardinal PR 409
 1
Cargill
 2
Caribbean Business
 2
Carrasquillo CPA Group
 1
CCL Label
 1
CGmp Group
 1
Charles Tennant & Company
 1
Chemic Laboratories
 2
Chemroy
 1
Chr.Hanssen
 3
Church & Dwight
 1
Clariant
 2
Cognis
 2
Colegio de Farmaceuticos de PR
 2
Colegio de Quimicos de PR
 6
Colorcon
 8
Colorcon PR
 1
Control Development
 1
Cordis, LLC
 2
Com Products International
 2
Cosmetic Specialties
 2
CP Kelco
 2
Croda
 3
Degussa
 3
Degussa Corporation
 1
Degussa Rohm Pharma
 2
Detrex
 1
DMV International
 4
Dober Group
 4
Doral Freight Logistics
 2
DOV Pharmaceutical
 1
Dow Chemical
 10
Dow Corning
 1
Drug Delivery
 2
Eli Lilly and Company
 2
EMD Chemicals
 2
Emerson Resources
 4
FDA
 1
FMC BioPolymer
 6
Foremost Farms USA
 1
Friesland Foods Domo
 1
Fuji Silysia Chamical
 1
Galephar Pharmaceutical
 2
Glaxo Smith Kline
 19
Global Pharma Supply Group
2
GPC
 1
Grace Davison
 1
Grain Processing
 1
Heirwall Sciences Laboratories
 1
Helm Mexico
 2
Hesego Industry
 1
ICL Performance Products
 2
Imaging Systems Technology
 2
Industrial Scientific
 1
International Association HS
 7
International Specialty Products (ISP)
 4
Inyx USA
 4
IPEC- Americas
 2
IPS
 1
ISP
 2
ISP (Mexico) SA de CV
 1
Ivax PR
 9
Johnny Rullan
 1
JRS Pharma LP
 7
Kerry Bio-Science
 5


Company People
KV Pharmaceuticals
 1
Lactose New Zealand
 2
Lilly del Caribe
 10
Luzenac
 2
Mallinckrodt Baker
 10
Mantrose Haeuser
 1
Manuel Del Valle Inc.
 1
Maprifarma
 2
Markan Global Enterprises
 2
Material Characterization Center
 3
Mays Chemical PR
 3
Mays Chemical USA
 1
McNeil PR
 2
McNeil USA
 2
Meggle
 1
Mentor
 1
Metrics
 2
Mineral and Pigment Solutions.
 2
Mingtai Chemical
 3
Mitsubishi Intl Food Ingredients
 1
Morflex
 1
MSD Arecibo
 1
MSD Barceloneta
 14
MSD Caguas
 2
MSD USA
 1
Mutchler Inc. USA
 6
Novartis Ex-Lax
 2
Novartis USA
 2
Noveon
 1
Novopharm Ltd.
 2
NP Pharm
 1
Ochoa Industrial
 7
Ortho PR
 3
Overnite Transportation-UPS
 6
Palatinit GmbH
 2
Pantheon/ MOVA Pharmaceutical
 35
Paular Corporation
 1
Peter Greven Fett-Chemie
 2
Pfizer Arecibo
 5
Pfizer Barceloneta
 3
Pfizer Caguas
 6
Pfizer Canada
 1
Pfizer USA
 6
Pfizer Vega Baja
 2
PFQ Magazine
 2
Pharma & Bio Ingredients
 1
Pharmaceutical Technology
 1
Pharmedia Compliance Consultants
 1
Phyto Riker Pharmaceuticals 1
Plus Pharma 3
PRIS-BioPharm 1
Procter & Gamble
 5
Productos Destilados SAIC y F
 1
Puritan Products, Inc.
 1
Qorpak
 2
Quality Chemical Labs
 2
Reed Exhibitions
 2
Reheis
 1
Rhodia
 2
Rohm and Haas Company
 4
Roquette America
 1
Roquette France
 1
Rosado y Morales
 2
Sachs Chemical
 2
Schering Plough
 13
School of Nursing
 2
Seaview Research
 1
Seppic
 1
Sera Care Life Sciences
 1
SPI Pharma
 2
Stepan Company
 2
Surface Measurement Systems
 1
Technoquimicas S.A.
 1
TEVA Pharmaceuticals
 1
Jordanian Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
 1
Traico
 1
Turdas Investment Limited
 1
Tychem
 2
Tyco Health Care
 1
Ultra Pure Solutions, Inc
 1
Unichem
 4
Univar USA
 12
Universal Capsules LLC
 2
Universidad Metropolitana
 2
University of of Ljubljana Faculty of Pharmacy
 1
University of PR (Medical Sciences)
 3
University of PR (Mayaguez)
 8
Valeant PR
 2
Valeant USA
 1
Validation & Engineering Group
 1
VWR Advanced Instruments
 4
VWR International
 2
Watson Laboratories
 9
William J. Hague LLC
 1
Wolff Cellulosics
 2
WR Grace
 1
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals
 22
Wyeth USA
 2
Zaycor Industries
 2


· EF 2007 - Exhibitor Questionnaire Results:

Total Exhibitors

 69

Total Questionaires

 48

Sponsorship Level:
Gold
Silver
Bronze
26 (38%)
24 (35%)
19 (28%)

Question:
Yes
No

First Time Exhibiting at ExcipientFest
8 (21%)
30 (79%)

Question:
Excellent
Good
Fair
Poor

Overall Rating of ExcipeintFest
30 (76%)
8 (24%)
Comments:
Quantity Contacts and excellent meetings.
The best Show for our industry.
Great Focused event and 1st class.
Our favorite Trade Show/Work Shop.
Great opportunity to meet with customers.
Show hours too long.

Rating as Technical Event
17 (45%)
21 (55%)

As an Event for Business Contacts
27 (71%)
11 (29%)

Event Organization

 32 (84%) 6 (16%)

Overall Attendance Quality Range
19 (50%)
19 (50%)
Comments: Good sampling of professional disciplines.
Would like to see more R&D attendance from the US.
Technical Portion needs more attendance.
Less attendance on the 2nd day.
Lots of business contacts.

Overall Attendance Quality Rate
18 (47%)
17 (45%)
3 (8%)
Rate Achievement of your Objective(s) 19 (50%) 18 (48%) 1 (2%)

Primary Objective in Participating:

Meet qualified buyers
32%

Meet technical contacts for product approval
36%

Enhance Brand Awareness
34%

Other

How is ExcipientFest different from other events?
  • Intimacy of contacts, everyone gets to know each other.
  • Specialization & focus of attendees on Excipients (Very Targeted).
  • Good Participation of QC & R&D personnel.
  • Designed for tech knowledge, net-working and business meetings.
  • Excellent attention & care given to exhibitors & attendees.
  • More tech. focus vs. sales than other shows.
  • Good mix of the science and sales.
  • Relaxed atmosphere with technical component.

Would you like Excipientfest in a new and larger venue

Yes- 6 (15%)

Comments:
Bigger venue will bring more customers.
Needed for future growth.

No- 21 (56%)

Comments:
Smaller venue is more intimate and focused.
Current location is perfect.
Excipient Industry gets lost at bigger shows.

Indifferent- 11 (29%)

Why:
Ritz is good.
Like the small size, but understand the need for growth.
Recommended Changes or improvements for ExcipientFest Exhibitors:
Nothing- 21 (56%) Excellent job.
Perfect forum for the technical sell.
Job well done.
Changes- 11 (29%) Reschedule Exhibitor hour differently from seminar hours.
More areas for meetings.
Posters out of the isle ways.
Later hours for presentations (10:00 AM).
Refreshment available in all isles.
Audio too loud.
Do you plan to Exhibit at ExcipientFest 2007 (Puerto Rico, Ireland)
Yes No No Response
Puerto Rico<