30.10.2013
- Dow Chemical is hanging the "for sale" sign on additional links in its value chain, raising the sum of assets it plans to divest over the next few months from $1.5 billion to $3-4...
30.10.2013
- Barrier To Business - One of the defining trends of the past three decades has been globalization. In order to take advantage of low-cost labor in emerging economies, companies...
30.10.2013
- 'Pharmacy To The World' - In today's global pharmaceutical industry 2.0, emerging regions led by India (BRIC - Brazil, Russia, India, China) have moved to the front row in terms of...
30.10.2013
- In The Red Tape - For decades, governments and companies around the world focused almost exclusively on tariffs as the biggest impediment to global trade. Today, tariffs are at a...
29.10.2013
- Global energy service giants are banking on a boom in Saudi oil and gas drilling over the next few years to revive profits that are being squeezed by overcapacity in the North...
29.10.2013
- Monitoring The Supply Chain - The globalization of chemical raw material procurement is presenting significant challenges to the pharmaceutical industry. Adopting basic good...
29.10.2013
- A General Electric subsidiary has dropped its appeal of a federal court order barring a massive shipment of tar sands oil-field equipment from being trucked along a scenic Idaho...
29.10.2013
- A new report shows that European research and development (R&D) investments in health have stagnated since 2010, and this is the first time after decades of annual increases. The...
28.10.2013
- Strategic Maneuvers - When Richard Ridinger took over as CEO of Basel, Switzerland-based Lonza in May 2012, the 115-year old life science and chemical company with sales of just...
28.10.2013
- Potential For Success - There is great promise for innovative R&D, generics and active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacture in Russia and the countries that make up Central...
