23.03.2016
- J. Michael Pearson has stepped down as CEO of Canada-based Valeant Pharmaceuticals two months after returning from a medical leave, as the company’s stock continues to bleed. One...
23.03.2016
- Swiss agrochemicals giant Syngenta, currently in the throes of being acquired by ChemChina for $43 billion, may soon have a new chief executive. That is, if none of the currently...
22.03.2016
- China could be poised for another spectacular takeover of a Western company, as China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) is seen to be mulling a deal for Brazilian...
22.03.2016
- The frenzy in the global agrochemicals market is showing no signs of tapering off anytime soon. Where activity once was focused on sow and spray, it’s now buy and sell. The latest...
21.03.2016
- The former general counsel of Turing Pharmaceuticals said on Thursday that he and other executives had repeatedly objected to a plan by Martin Shkreli, then chief executive, to...
21.03.2016
- A dockworkers strike at the Port of Grangemouth in Scotland that had threatened to hit supplies of refinery fuel and thus petrochemicals to southern Scotland and northern England...
18.03.2016
- Drugmakers Regeneron Pharmaceuticals and Sanofi have said they will appeal a decision by a US federal jury that their cholesterol drug Praluent (alirocumab) infringes patents owned...
18.03.2016
- IMCD France has been named distributor for Covestro’s coatings and adhesives raw materials in France, with effect from May 1. The agreement signed with former Bayer MaterialScience...
