PDI Sticks to Contract Sales
Executive Summary
While its competitors in the contract sales industry sell themselves as all-purpose marketing outsourcers, Professional Detailing Inc. is sticking to its core business of providing sales reps to pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Although PDI will eventually need to expand and diversify, most likely through acquisition, it should remain successful for some time as a pure play CSO.
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