... R&D's responsibilities were three fold, including responsibility for the invention of new veterinary drugs, the further development of existing drugs in their portfolio and the development of veterinary varieties of human drugs on the market. The manufacturing division were responsible for the efficient and effective production of high quality pharmaceuticals engineered by the R&D team. As a result of consolidation, both of these functions had been brought together under the one roof. The organisation adopts a Functional Structure headed by a Corporate Body. Corporate is lead by the Managing Director (Fred Hartford). Reporting to the Managing Director is Bill Neal, the General Manager of Operations. Under this, the organisation is broken into two functions, R&D and Manufacturing headed by the Research Manager and Production Manager respectively. Until recently, the research manager had two Assistant Research Managers (ARM) reporting directly to him, giving him a span of control of 2. Each ARM was ...

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