Clarkston Merchant Partners Invests in Clarus Information

DURHAM, N.C. - April 15, 2009. Clarus Information, a business intelligence software vendor serving the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, announced that it has received a significant investment from Clarkston Merchant Partners and has entered into a strategic partnership with Clarkston Consulting. The Company will use both the investment and the strategic partnership to accelerate the commercialization of its pharmaceutical and biotechnology products.

About Clarus Information: Clarus Information is a niche, Business Intelligence (BI) software solution provider for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. The Company’s offering integrates compliance and business data together from disparate enterprise systems (ERP, DMS, CAPA, LIMS, LMS, and various MES). The Clarus Information solution provides proven financial returns through the following business benefits:

• Proactive identification of critical path and bottlenecks
• Electronic review of product genealogy
• Real-time batch management
• Management and reduction of non-process order activities
• Typical payback period has been about 12 months post-implementation

Clarus Information is different than other BI tools that are designed to work in many industries because Clarus Information was designed and pre-built by a manufacturer of pharmaceutical and biotechnology products to meet the specific needs and business processes of the health sciences industry.

About Clarkston Merchant Partners: Clarkston Merchant Partners (“CMP”) makes principal investments in companies and transactions where proprietary transformation opportunities exist. We combine deep domain insight and capital markets expertise with the capability to implement transformational change. CMP is closely aligned with Clarkston Consulting and is focused actively in three large market segments: (i) consumer/industrial; (ii) health care and life sciences; (iii) and technology and business services.

About Clarkston Consulting: Clarkston Consulting is a different kind of management and technology consulting firm. We deliver a unique experience for market leaders within the Consumer Products and Life Sciences industries. Considering professionalism, expertise, and value as prerequisites, we take service a step further through our unyielding commitment to the success of people as individuals, both our clients and our stewards. By combining integrity, adaptability, and a whatever-it-takes attitude, we have achieved an extremely high rate of referral and repeat business and an 7-year average client satisfaction rate of 97%.

For more information visit us at www.clarkstonconsulting.com

Contact:
DeShelia Spann
Clarkston Consulting
919.484.4681
dspann@clarkstonconsulting.com

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