19.06.2017
- The final go-ahead for the long planned $130 million merger of US chemical giants Dow and DuPont appeared all but assured on Jun. 15 as US antitrust authorities gave the green for...
12.04.2017
- US paints and coatings giant PPG has opened additional production capacity for food-can coatings at its plant in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, USA. It said the investment of nearly $3...
04.04.2017
- Based on interim results of its $280 per share tender offer for all publicly held shares of Swiss biopharmaceuticals company Actelion, US healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson has...
07.02.2017
- US drugmaker Mylan is facing a probe from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as to whether it has violated antitrust laws in protecting its EpiPen from lower-priced competitors...
15.12.2016
- Solvay is exiting its Asian PVC activities after agreeing to sell its controlling 58.77% stake in Thai subsidiary Vinythai to Japan’s Asahi Glass. The Tokyo-headquartered group is...
15.07.2016
- After engaging it what it said were “private talks” with US agribusiness giant Monsanto over the past weeks and “receiving additional information,” Bayer has raised its takeover...
30.05.2016
- Bayer’s plans to take over Monsanto may face higher antitrust hurdles than the company acknowledges, the US newspaper St Louis Dispatch, published in Monsanto’s hometown of St...
16.11.2015
- Syngenta has rejected a merger proposal from China National Chemical Corp., according to a Bloomberg report. The Chinese state-owned company is said to have offered about 449...
