VIVALIS WINS A 2012 DELOITTE TECHNOLOGY FAST 50 WEST AWARD

VIVALIS WINS A 2012
DELOITTE TECHNOLOGY FAST 50 WEST AWARD

Nantes & Lyon (France) - November 9, 2012 - VIVALIS (NYSE Euronext: VLS) announced today that it won first place in both the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 West and NYSE Euronext listed companies in the same category.

The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award was created in 1995 in San Jose, California, in the heart of Silicon Valley, and soon spread throughout the whole United States, then the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, Israel, and France. It was created to highlight the exceptional contribution of technology companies to economic growth.

For over 10 years, the award recognizes fast growing technology companies in their respective region.

Franck Grimaud, CEO, and Majid Mehtali, CSO, co-managers of VIVALIS, jointly stated, "We are honored to win both of the awards. These prizes recognize VIVALIS' development over the last five years. Over these five years, the number of commercial licensees of our EB66® technology for the production of vaccines and antibodies has increased more than twofold. At the same time, we have more than doubled our number of employee and entered a new market: the discovery of human monoclonal antibodies, where we have an important partnership with Sanofi Pasteur. During the same period, we have completed a successful IPO, and expanded internationally with the opening of a new subsidiary in Japan. These achievements have enabled an increased revenue diversification and represent the basis of our future development around our three strategic axes: the EB66® cell line, the VIVA|Screen(TM) antibody discovery platform, and a portfolio of proprietary monoclonal antibody products. We would like to congratulate all our teams who made this possible."

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About VIVALIS (www.vivalis.com)

Vivalis (NYSE-Euronext: VLS) is a biopharmaceutical company that provides innovative cell-based solutions to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry for the manufacture of vaccines and recombinant proteins, and develops monoclonal antibodies for the prevention and treatment of diseases with unmet medical needs. Vivalis' expertise and intellectual property are leveraged in two main areas:

1. EB66^® Cell Line

Vivalis offers research and commercial licenses for its EB66^® cell line, derived from duck embryonic stem cells, to pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies for the production of therapeutic and prophylactic viral vaccines, virosomes, VLPs and recombinant proteins, including monoclonal antibodies. Clinical trials of EB66^® produced vaccines are currently on-going in the USA and Japan and in 2012 a vaccine produced in EB66® cells received market approval in Japan for use in animal health.   Through these programs, Vivalis receives an upfront payment, clinical stage milestone payments along with royalties on licensees' net sales.

1. VIVA|Screen(TM) Human Antibody Discovery Platform

Customized solutions for the discovery, development and production of rare, fully human monoclonal antibodies are offered by Vivalis. Through these programs, Vivalis receives payments associated with the funding of discovery research, an upfront payment, clinical stage milestone payments along with royalties on net sales of licensed antibodies that are commercially developed from the use of the platform.

Based in Nantes and Lyon (France) and in Toyama (Japan), Vivalis was founded in 1999 by the Group Grimaud (approx. 1,700 employees), one of the worldwide leaders in animal genetic selection. Vivalis has established more than 30 partnerships and licenses with world leaders in biopharmaceutical industry, including Sanofi Pasteur, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, Transgene, Pfizer Animal Health, Kaketsuken, Kitasato Daiichi Sankyo Vaccine, Merial, Merck Animal Health and SAFC Biosciences. Vivalis is a member of the French ATLANTIC BIOTHERAPIES and LYON BIOPOLE bio-clusters and a member of the Japanese HOKURIKU INNOVATION CLUSTER FOR HEALTH SCIENCE based in Toyama.

About the Technology Fast 50

The Technology Fast 50 Award was created in 1995 in San Jose, California, (in the heart of Silicon Valley) and soon spread to the whole of the United States and then the United Kingdom, Canada, the Netherlands, Israel and France. The program is now operating in more than 40 countries and regions around the world. It was created to highlight the exceptional contribution of technology companies to economic growth.

Deloitte has in addition developed three continental rewards:

·                Europe, Middle-East and Africa: Fast 500 EMEA

·                North America: Fast 500 North America

·                Asia Pacific: Fast 500 Asia Pacific.

 To know more: www.fast50france.com

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