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Wednesday, April 29, 2020

J&J teams up with Catalent to supply COVID-19 vaccine

Catalent (NYSE:CTLT) will collaborate with Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) unit Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies to accelerate manufacturing capacity and prepare for large-scale production of J&J’s lead COVID-19 vaccine candidate.
The parties will jointly invest in the scale-up of capacity over the coming months. Catalent expects to hire ~300 additional employees at its Bloomington, IN site starting in July with the objective of operational readiness for 24/7 production by January 2021.
Financial terms are not disclosed.
CTLT is up 6% premarket while JNJ is up a fraction, both on light volume.
https://seekingalpha.com/news/3565990-j-and-j-teams-up-catalent-to-supply-covidminus-19-vaccine

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