03.02.2017
- UK consumer goods company Reckitt Benckiser is in advanced negotiations to buy US-based Mead Johnson Nutrition in a deal valued at $16.7 billion. The acquisition would take the...
30.05.2014
- Swiss food group Nestle has accelerated a push into the fast-growing skincare market, buying the rights to several injectable treatments for facial wrinkles and lines from Valeant...
07.08.2013
- Times are getting tough for European firms in emerging markets where HSBC talks of a cyclical "slowdown", Diageo sees "choppy conditions" and Unilever views deceleration as the...
22.07.2013
- British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline said on Monday some of its executives in China appeared to have broken the law in a bribery scandal, as it promised changes in its business model...
18.07.2013
- China announced a nationwide crackdown on the sale of illegal medicine on Wednesday and said it would tighten industry regulation, piling pressure on a sector already reeling from...
12.07.2013
- GlaxoSmithKline executives in China have confessed to bribery and tax violations, the country's security ministry said on Thursday, during one of a string of investigations into...
11.07.2013
- As activist investors launch more high profile corporate battles in the United States, in Europe they are eschewing public hectoring for private talks. Aggressive activism has had...
31.10.2012
- German fragrance and flavors maker Symrise plans to leverage its links with global consumer goods companies to take a bigger slice of the market supplying ingredients for skin and...
