04.04.2011
- Ashland has closed the sale of its global distribution business, known as Ashland Distribution, to Nexeo Solutions, an affiliate of TPG Capital, for a purchase price of...
04.04.2011
- French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis completed its improved $20.1 billion offer for Genzyme allowing it to begin merging the U.S. biotech into its business and add rare diseases to its...
04.04.2011
- Following are main developments after a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated northeast Japan and crippled a nuclear power station, raising the risk of an uncontrolled...
04.04.2011
- Japan's Maruzen Petrochemical said on Monday it began restarting its 480,000 tons per year naphtha cracker in Chiba, east of Tokyo, earlier in the day, nearly a month after it was...
04.04.2011
- Bankers at Citigroup were unaware when discussing the possible sale of chemical company Lubrizol with the man tipped to succeed Warren Buffett that he had any intention to buy...
04.04.2011
- German forklift truck maker Kion is set to make its debut on financial markets with its first ever corporate bond, helping to pave the way for a stock exchange listing in the...
04.04.2011
- The Japanese nuclear crisis has created a public-relations headache for General Electric, but the company so far has escaped any legal fallout, and many experts expect it will...
04.04.2011
- Belgian chemicals and plastics maker Solvay said on Monday it will buy French chemicals company Rhodia, valuing the firm at €3.4 billion and ending a year-long hunt for a takeover...
01.04.2011
- Czech downstream oil group Unipetrol said it was prepared to raise its stake in Ceska Rafinerska if one the refinery's two other shareholders were to exit, it said in its 2010...
01.04.2011
- BP and other companies who had used chemical dispersants to fight the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill should compensate the cleanup crew and residents harmed by those toxic chemicals...
