22.08.2016
- Pfizer has won the race for biotech firm Medivation. The US drugs giant has agreed to pay about $14 billion in a move that adds leading prostate cancer drug Xtandi to its portfolio...
19.08.2016
- The GETEC Group, which was founded in 1993, now combines six subsidiaries including their shareholdings under the roof of the group’s parent company. One of them, GETEC Heat &...
08.08.2016
- The wave of mega mergers in the global pharmaceutical industry is driving prices for new “wonder drugs” financed with public funding, a study by the UK’s Cambridge University...
03.08.2016
- Management of US drug giant Pfizer is having second thoughts about splitting into two separate companies, reports from its second-quarter financial results conference with analysts...
26.07.2016
- Business was on a downward curve for German chemical and pharmaceutical producers in the first half of 2016, the industry association Verband der Chemischen Industrie (VCI) said at...
20.07.2016
- Monsanto has rejected Bayer’s sweetened takeover offer of $125 per share, or around $65 billion, calling it “financially inadequate to ensure deal certainty.” The US group repeated...
15.07.2016
- As the reality, and increasingly the finality, of Britain’s June 23 vote to leave the European Union began to sink in, chemical and pharmaceutical producers across the country in...
15.07.2016
- After engaging it what it said were “private talks” with US agribusiness giant Monsanto over the past weeks and “receiving additional information,” Bayer has raised its takeover...
07.07.2016
- Inadequate maintenance and unsuitable strategies repeatedly cause malfunctions, which sometimes result in significant damage and high costs. As plants are highly individual, none...
06.07.2016
- Amid the discussion over EU member states’ sovereign rights in the aftermath of the UK vote to leave the union (Brexit), the European Commission has decided on a cautious approach...
