Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) is a Contract Research Organisation (CRO) founded in 1951 in Cambridgeshire, England. It has two laboratories in the United Kingdom and one in the United States. With over 1600 staff, it is now the largest non-clinical CRO in Europe.
In 2009 HLS was bought outright and is now in private ownership. Prior to this, the latest Annual Report (2008) showed that the company had revenues of $242.4m and an Operating Profit of 14.8%.
Although HLS in the third largest non-clinical CRO in the world, it is probably better known to the general public as the target of a high profile animal rights campaign. The campaign, in the main, has been orchestrated by the animal rights group Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC)
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