type public traded as nyse crl industry pharmaceutical medical devices founded 1947 headquarters wilmington massachusetts key people james c. foster ceo revenue 1.13 billion fy2012 number of employees 7 500 1 website charles river charles river laboratories inc. is an american corporation specializing in a variety of pre clinical and clinical laboratory services for the pharmaceutical medical device and biotechnology industries . 3 it also supplies assorted biomedical products and research and development outsourcing services for use in the pharmaceutical industry . according to its website its customers include every major pharmaceutical and biotechnology company in the world major academic institutions and government research centers . 4 the company was founded in 1947 . the chief executive officer is james c. foster . with more than 7 500 employees the company has facilities in canada belgium finland france germany hungary italy ireland china japan the netherlands spain and the united kingdom . controversy edit the company has been the target of animal rights activists in the uk and us . it owned shamrock farm in england s west sussex which closed in 2000 following a 15 month campaign by animal rights activists . 5 6 in 2007 two monkeys at the company s sparks nevada facility had their fingers amputated after they were caught in the wiring of their cages while being moved and a third monkey suffered a cut to its tail . 7 in 2008 32 cynomolgus primates also known as crab eating macaques died of overheating at the company s sparks nevada laboratory after a climate system failure . peta filed a complaint with the usda over the incident . the following year a monkey died at the same facility after being left in their cage as it was going through a hot cage washer . charles river was fined 14 500 for the two incidents . the company subsequently closed their sparks facility . 7 8 peta owns 2 000 worth of shares in the company enough to introduce formal resolutions regarding animal care during the company s annual shareholder meeting . 9 mergers edit in october 2003 charles river laboratories merged with inveresk a uk owned research company . the company was known then as charles river laboratories . inveresk specialised in clinical research and pre clinical testing and their main facilities are in edinburgh scotland . in late 2009 charles river sold its clinical services division in edinburgh to quotient bioresearch company . in 2010 charles river laboratories attempted to acquire wuxi pharmatech a china based contract research organization but the offer was withdrawn when the deal faced opposition from several large charles river investors including relational investors jana partners and neuberger berman . proxy advisory firm riskmetrics had also recommended that charles river s shareholders vote against the proposed deal . in july 2015 the company announced it would acquire celsis international for 212 million . 10 in january 2016 the company announced it was set to acquire wil research for approximately 585 million in cash . 11 in june 2016 the company announced it would acquire blue stream laboratories . 12 notes edit safety assessment . http www.criver.com christensen carl roland . business policy text and cases . r.d. irwin 1982 p. 54 . charles river at a glance charles river laboratories . barnett anthony ; ridley yvonne 8 may 1999 . monkey farm death trail exposed . the guardian . retrieved 3 september 2015 . protest site monkey farm to close . . coventry evening telegraph . 11 march 2000 . retrieved 3 september 2015 . a b ghastly slaughter of research monkeys prompts calls for oversight . fox news . associated press . 17 march 2010 . retrieved 3 september 2015 . sonner scott 14 december 2012 . animal deaths spark call for fining of nevada other testing labs . las vegas review journal . associated press . retrieved 3 september 2015 . cooper warren 26 december 2012 . peta takes on merck pfizer animal testing policies . njn publishing . nj.com . retrieved 3 september 2015 . charles river buys celsis for 212m . gen. charles river labs to acquire wil research for 585m . gen. charles river laboratories acquires blue stream laboratories . retrieved 2016 06 28 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title charles river laboratories & oldid 730759309 categories companies listed on the new york stock exchangecompanies established in 1947companies based in wilmington massachusettsmultinational companiesanimal rightswilmington massachusettscontract research organizationsanimal testing in the united statesanimal testing in the united kingdom1947 establishments in massachusettslife sciences industryhidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 20 july 2016 at 23 39 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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