27.04.2012
- A European Union plan to tighten drug packaging rules in a bid to stamp out counterfeits has triggered a row between makers of big name medicines and those producing cheap generics...
27.04.2012
- BASF had a solid start to 2012. Sales were higher than in the very good first quarter of the previous year and rose 6% to €20.6 billion. Income from operations (EBIT) before...
27.04.2012
- Pharmaceutical firm Shire posted a 20% rise in first-quarter earnings on Thursday, just beating market expectations, as its drugs to treat hyperactivity again lifted market share...
24.04.2012
- Rhodia, member of the Solvay group, and Tantalus Rare Earths are pleased to announce the signing of a Letter of Intent ("LOI") relating to technical cooperation for the development...
24.04.2012
- Seven months after the acquisition of Rhodia, Solvay today presented the group's strategic vision focused on value creation and its profitability ambition for 2016. The major...
23.04.2012
- An official ceremony was held on April 21, 2012 to mark the groundbreaking for Evonik's new hydrogen peroxide plant in China. The plant is scheduled to go online, with a planed...
23.04.2012
- Europe's largest drugs distributor Celesio is set to significantly boost its stake in Brazil's largest drugs distributor Panpharma from currently 50.1%, two people with the matter...
20.04.2012
- Roche dropped its bid to buy the gene-sequencing leader Illumina this week after Illumina's shareholders made it clear at the company's annual meeting that the terms were...
19.04.2012
- Chemical maker Albemarle's first quarter earnings rose, and beat Wall Street's expectations, on strong sales of catalysts used by petroleum refiners. Sales of specialty materials...
