• Core Excipients

  • Functional Excipients for the Formulation of Solid Oral Dosage Forms

  • Coatings

  • Fully Formulated Conventional and Modified Release Film Coating Systems
  • Formulation Tools

  • Useful Tools for the Pharmaceutical Formulator

  • Education

  • Technical formulation and development seminars and forums
  • Evaluate

  • Competitor, Consumer Color Preference, Regulatory, Tablet Library of Shapes, and Trademarks

  • Develop

  • Unique Tablet Designs and Branding Solutions

  • Visualize

  • Concept to Prototypes using State-of-the-Art 3D Images and Models through our Tablet Design Centers

  • Brand Security

  • Understand Options and Learn of New Technologies to Protect your Brand
  • Technical

  • Global Technical Support, Technical Service Labs and Tablet Design Centers

  • Regulatory

  • Global Regulatory Support Services

  • Customer

  • Global Customer Support and Service Locations
  • Tools

  • Useful Tools to Assist Pharmaceutical Product Development

  • Literature

  • Extensive Collection of Articles, Product Literature, Application Data and Regulatory Documents

  • Education

  • Technical Formulation and Development Seminars and Forums
 

The BEST® Process for Solid Pharmaceutical Dosage Forms

BEST, the Brand Enhancement System for Tablets, is a differentiated and unique tablet design consultative service that establishes distinctive product identity, streamlines the solid dose development process, and enhances product lifecycle in a quick and cost effective manner. With our proprietary tools, marketing expertise, and product technology, Colorcon® can help you create a memorable brand for your solid pharmaceutical dosage form. 

The BEST Process

Colorcon relies on an extensive yet expedient process to begin developing the product profile that will lead to the tablet design of your pharmaceutical dosage form. Our team evaluates:

  • Competitive landscape.
  • Consumer color preference and shape options from major pharmaceutical markets.
  • Regulatory compliance.
  • Trademark opportunities.

 

Read below for key service highlights, or view our product information sheets for more detail.  
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Therapeutic Category and Competitive Environment Search

Using our one-of-a-kind database of branded Rx and OTC products, Colorcon conducts a therapeutic category search to analyze your competition. Our report allows you to quickly see what your competitor’s products look like, review your own corporate products for differentiation, and analyze the potential for medication errors.

Consumer Design Preference – Color, Shape and Logo

Research has proven that color can improve brand recognition by up to 80%. Through our exclusive global color insights database, we can provide you with color choices that will align with your target audience and brand attributes, and will please your entire team.

The BEST service works to develop a tablet shape that accommodates your product’s active ingredient, dosage size, delivery system and packaging requirements.

Logos or tablet identification marks are important elements in tablet design, enabling pharmacists, healthcare providers and consumers to easily identify medications. The BEST service can help you explore the ways that various tablet identification marks can be incorporated onto the face of your tablets.

Regulatory Compliance Service 

The BEST system for developing solid dosage products offers pharmaceutical marketers unique solutions.

As part of the BEST process, we assess the maximum daily allowance and perform both qualitative and quantitative assessments of potential coating formulations to ensure regulatory acceptance in your target geographic area.

Trademark Assessment

Through trademark database review, we compare your tablet design with those tablets known to be trademarked to ensure that the designs do not conflict with existing registered trademarks for tablets. While your legal team is ultimately responsible for establishing the trademark for your tablet, we can help maximize the chances of success by eliminating design possibilities that obviously infringe on existing trademarked tablet designs.

Contact Colorcon, and put all the BEST advantages to work for you to create a solid pharmaceutical dosage form that is unique, potentially trademarkable and easily identifiable.