Xendo presently offering a wide variety of services has been in business for more than fifteen years. Our company's history is briefly outlined below.

2006

Xendo B.V. further expands in Scandinavia by founding ‘Xendo Pharma Services A/S’, a subsidiary based in Ballerup, in the area of great Copenhagen, Denmark.

As of January 1st, 2006, Univalid Holding B.V. has been restructurered and renamed Xendo B.V. Xendo employs close to 200 people and is comprised of three operational divisions:

• Xendo Drug Development B.V.
• Xendo Manufacturing B.V.
• Xendo Pharma Services B.V.

2005

Xendo Clinics B.V. opens a second 14-bed Clinical Pharmacology Unit for phase I/IIa clinical research on the premises of the University Medical Centre Groningen.

2004

Xendo Drug Development B.V. expands with Xendo Clinics B.V., a 12-bed Clinical Pharmacology Unit for phase I/IIa clinical research, and Xendo Pharma Design B.V., a consultancy firm focusing on strategic drug research and development, both on the premises of the University Medical Centre Groningen.

Xendo Drug Development B.V., a 100% subsidiary of Univalid Holding B.V., is founded in Groningen, to hold Xendo Laboratories B.V.

Quality Engineering, a business unit of Univalid Engineering B.V. internally merges with Univalid Metrology B.V. to form Univalid Technical Support B.V.

Univalid Bioprocessing B.V. moves its research and pilot laboratories from Delft University to the Bio Science Park in Leiden.

2002

Univalid Holding B.V. acquires a part of Bird Engineering B.V. to form Univalid Bioprocessing B.V. 

2001

Univalid opens a branch office in Sweden: Univalid Compliance and Validation AB, under Univalid Scandinavia AB.

2000

The company headquarters move from Amsterdam to the Bio Science Park Leiden.

Univalid Holding B.V. becomes the umbrella company over all operating companies. The names of the different operating companies in Leiden are uniformed:

• Eurovalid-Arthemius B.V. changes to Univalid Compliance and Validation B.V.
• Helix Engineering B.V. changes to Univalid Engineering B.V.
• Probion B.V. changes to Univalid Management and Development B.V.
• Vipquip B.V. changes to Univalid Metrology B.V.

Xendo Laboratories B.V. although part of Univalid Holding B.V. keeps its name.

1999

Xendo Laboratories B.V., a bioanalytical contract laboratory is founded in Groningen.

1998

Helix Engineering B.V. starts collaboration with Eurovalid-Arthemius B.V. to expand the range of services with pharmaceutical engineering.

New activities are employed by starting VipQuip B.V., offering services on metrology and calibration.

Probion B.V., delivering management and business development services to the (bio)pharmaceutical industries, teams up.

1997

Eurovalid B.V. and Arthemius v.o.f. internally merge to form Eurovalid-Arthemius B.V.

1996

Arthemius v.o.f. was founded, to bring additional expertise for the biotechnology sector.

1995

Eurovalid is incorporated into Eurovalid B.V.

1990

Eurovalid is founded in Amsterdam, providing compliance and validation services to the pharmaceutical industry.