PSC was Canada’s leading environmental testing business, while Maxxam Analytics was the number two player.  Maxxam also had clients in the industrial, oil & gas, food animal and DNA testing segments as well as nutritional labelling.  When Callisto merged PSC with Maxxam, Canada’s number one analytics business was created.

• Opportunity to create dominant business in an attractive industry with favourable growth trends.
• Industry consolidation opportunities.
• Improved management and focused resource allocation would drive both top and bottom-line growth by concentrating in the most profitable / highest growth segments.