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Bayer Diabetes Unit Sale Unlikely

07.12.2012 - Bayer is unlikely to sell its blood glucose meters business for the time being, after failing to generate sufficient interest from buyers, two people familiar with the situation...

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Science for a Better Life

03.12.2012 - Success Factors - With numerous new products, the Bayer Group aims to help improve people's lives while exploiting billions in potential sales. "Innovation is the only way to...

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Bayer Plastics Unit May See Turn for the Better

03.12.2012 - The plastics unit of German drugmaker Bayer could see higher returns on its capital in the medium term, making it an "essential part of" the diversified group, its chief executive...

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Bayer Sues Lupin Over Generic Birth Control Pill

30.11.2012 - German drugmaker Bayer has filed a lawsuit in the United States against Indian generic drug maker Lupin, to prevent it from selling a version of Bayer's birth control pill Natazia...

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Merck KGaA to Resist Lure of Potential Proceeds from OTC Sale

27.11.2012 - Merck KGaA said it would keep its non-prescription drugs unit even as a tussle over vitamin maker Schiff Nutrition highlighted the rich sale premium it could fetch. Merck's...

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Bayer Shuns Bidding War with Reckitt over Schiff

20.11.2012 - German drugmaker Bayer gave up trying to buy Schiff Nutrition after Reckitt Benckiser made a higher offer for the U.S. vitamin maker. "Bayer's Board of Management has decided not...

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BASF, Bayer, Evonik and Lanxess Still Strong in Q3 Despite Dark Clouds

15.11.2012 - Storm clouds are gathering on the horizon, as the somewhat weaker third-quarter results show, but German multinational chemical players BASF, Bayer, Evonik and Lanxess still expect...

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India Revokes Roche Patent in New Blow for Big Pharma

03.11.2012 - India dealt a fresh blow to the international pharmaceutical industry on Friday as its patents appeal board revoked a patent granted six years ago on Roche's hepatitis C drug...