“68% of chemicals worth $76 billion will be sold online within the next five years.” This was the message from leading market research institutes and consultants in 2000...
09.05.2019
- So in the end, both the UK and the EU backed away from the spectre of a no-deal Brexit. Originally, the UK would, as a matter of law, leave the EU on Mar. 29, 2019, with or without...
09.05.2019
- Digitalization is a very important topic not only in the chemical industry as a whole, but also in chemical distribution. As Wolfgang Falter states in his article: Customers...
09.05.2019
- Companies across industries are torn between sustainability and profitability. But is this really a contradiction? Suppliers hold a key role when it comes to making supply chains...
08.05.2019
- In today’s competitive global market, chemical distributors face not only growing compliance demands and have to deal with digitalization issues but also strive to increase their...
07.05.2019
- Through its subsidiary EMD Group Holding II, Germany’s Merck KGaA has agreed to acquire Intermolecular for $1.20 per share, yielding an equity value of $62 million. The US company...
06.05.2019
- UK environmental campaigners have long had their eyes on Ineos, in part because of the Swiss-based group’s aggressive fracking campaign but also because of what they say is its...
03.05.2019
- BASF and LetterOne (L1), a Luxembourg-based consortium of Russian investors, have completed the merger of their oil and gas subsidiaries Wintershall and DEA following all...
29.04.2019
- Bayer’s annual general meeting (agm) on Apr. 26 proved to be as turbulent as expected. Although those attending the nearly 13-hour marathon session nodded off on major proposals...
16.04.2019
- US district judge Vince Chhabria, who handled the first federal court lawsuit charging that Monsanto’s Roundup caused a California man’s cancer, has canceled the next of the 11,200...
