28.04.2015
- Nelson Peltz, the activist shareholder owner of hedge fund Trian Fund Management, which is pressing for DuPont to split into two companies, has gained a powerful backer in proxy...
28.04.2015
- In its first reaction to the hostile takeover bid by Israeli generics giant Teva, the board of Dutch-based drugmaker Mylan has unanimously rejected the more than $40 billion offer...
23.04.2015
- The European Commission has finalized new rules allowing member states the freedom to restrict or prohibit the import of genetically modified crops for food or feed, even if they...
16.04.2015
- European chemical production rose 0.2% in 2014, the chemical industry federation CEFIC said in its just-published Chemicals Trends Report. By contrast, sales fell 1% year-on-year...
14.04.2015
- Trian Fund Management, investment vehicle of DuPont activist shareholder Nelson Peltz, which currently owns shares in the chemical giant worth around $1.8 billion, has urged the...
24.03.2015
- (CHEManager International 3-4/2015) Abundance of capital investment With the recent fall-off in oil prices, companies in virtually all sectors of the oil, gas and chemicals (OGC)...
24.03.2015
- The sharp drop in oil prices in the second half of last year is causing some dilemmas not only for individual chemical producers in Europe, particularly those making petrochemicals...
13.03.2015
- The worldwide chemicals economy withstood the strong headwinds battering the industry again in 2014. Financial results reported by companies in Europe and North America showed a...
11.02.2015
- US oil group Chevron has announced plans to pull out of Polish shale gas exploration, commenting that exploiting the country's reserves there "no longer compares favorably" with...
26.01.2015
- French drugmaker Sanofi will pay its former chief executive Chris Viehbacher, fired by the company in October 2014, a severance package worth €4.4 million in total, including fixed...