17.05.2011 • News • generics • Pharma • Shlomo Yanai

Teva CEO Shlomo Yanai Says Always Looking for More Acquisitions

Teva CEO Shlomo Yanai
Teva CEO Shlomo Yanai

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is always looking for acquisitions and will move on other potential targets when it finds a strategic fit, its top executive said on Monday.

"We are scrutinizing constantly the opportunities and in due time we will move for further acquisitions when we find them a ... strategic fit," Teva CEO Shlomo Yanai said at a briefing in Tokyo.

Teva said on Monday that it would acquire 57% of privately held Taiyo Pharmaceutical Industry for $460 million in cash and would make an offer to buy the remaining shares of Japan's third-largest generic pharmaceutical company.

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