05.08.2010
- European Union antitrust regulators approved U.S. manufacturer Honeywell International to buy French firm Sperian on Wednesday, saying the acquisition would not harm competition...
04.08.2010
- Royal Dutch Shell's new 800,000 ton-per-year (tpy) ethylene cracker in Singapore has resumed operations, after a brief disruption caused by a power trip, industry sources said on...
04.08.2010
- Group sales for the first half of 2010 amounted to €3,761 million. They were up by 25% compared to the first half of 2009, not including the pharmaceuticals activities; compared to...
04.08.2010
- Oil giant BP claimed "a significant milestone" on Wednesday in its efforts to plug for good the well that spewed millions of barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico over three...
04.08.2010
- Pharmaceutical firm Teva may go ahead with its €3.7 billion takeover of German generic drugmaker Ratiopharm if the companies divest products in the Netherlands and Hungary, the...
04.08.2010
- Pfizer is on the lookout for further acquisitions in the area of emerging markets, established products, inflammatory diseases as well as cancer and alzheimer, German daily...
04.08.2010
- Here are some developments in BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the largest offshore oil disaster in U.S. history. Top Developments• BP fine-tuned its equipment on Tuesday to deliver...
04.08.2010
- Sanofi-Aventis has grabbed the headlines with its $18.4 billion bid for Genzyme, but the French drugmaker may be wiser to stick with smaller, bolt-on acquisitions. Sanofi is trying...
04.08.2010
- BP pumped heavy drilling mud into its blown-out Gulf of Mexico well on Tuesday in a "static kill" operation it hopes will help permanently plug the world's worst accidental marine...
04.08.2010
- Sanofi-Aventis investors have urged the drugmaker not to pay more than about $19 billion to land Genzyme, some $10 a share below the price wanted by the U.S. biotech group. Two...
