30.10.2012
- Germany's Bayer is to buy U.S. vitamins maker Schiff Nutrition International for an agreed $1.2 billion as it seeks stable sources of growth to complement its more volatile...
29.10.2012
- Nomad Bioscience, a plant biotechnology company, has announced that the company has entered into a strategic joint research and development agreement with Bayer CropScience...
25.10.2012
- Road Map - Outwardly, at least Thierry Le Hénaff is unruffled by the prospect that French chemical producer Arkema --- along with similar sized-players in Germany and The...
04.10.2012
- From its base in a business park outside the city of Ghent, Belgium's biotech industry is attracting a global following, benefiting from years of patient investment, promising...
02.10.2012
- U.S. antitrust regulators found no wrongdoing in a deal made four years ago between German drugmaker Bayer and a division of Teva Pharmaceuticals to end patent litigation over the...
25.09.2012
- A Pill a Day - Unlike chemicals, the pharmaceuticals sector does not have cycles. Even in a sluggish economy, sick people will still need medicine. But the widening European debt...
25.09.2012
- Market Overview - With the euro crisis biting ever harder, the US economy still staggering under a formidable debt burden and even the Chinese growth engine sputtering, the chief...
21.09.2012
- Syngenta, the world's No.1 agrobusiness company, is buying Belgian seed firm Devgen for €403 million ($522 million), paying a hefty premium to boost its position in rice and close...
