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Zimmer to Buy Biomet for $13.35 Billion

28.04.2014 - U.S.-based Zimmer Holdings has said it will buy rival orthopedic products maker Biomet for more than $13 billion, the latest deal in a wave of consolidations in the healthcare...

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Bayer and Reckitt Said Finalists for Merck & Co. Consumer Arm

28.04.2014 - Germany's Bayer and British consumer products giant Reckitt are said to have emerged as frontrunners to win the auction for the Merck & Co consumer products unit, each reportedly...

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Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline Swap $20 Billion in Assets

23.04.2014 - Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline have announced an asset swap worth more than $20 billion, with an eye to bolstering their best businesses and exiting weaker ones. The swap, which...

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DKSH Extends Collaboration With Bristol-Myers Squibb

08.04.2014 - DKSH Business Unit Healthcare has extended the relationship started in 2010 with Bristol-Myers Squibb, covering six markets in Asia (Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan...

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Bayer to Spend €100 Million on Chinese Pharma Packaging Upgrade

31.03.2014 - Bayer HealthCare plans to spend around €100 million to "significantly increase" capacity of its Beijing, China pharmaceutical packaging facilities, the Leverkusen-based group said...

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Baxter to Split Medical and Biotech Businesses in 2015

28.03.2014 - U.S. healthcare giant Baxter International has announced plans to split its pharmaceuticals and its medical devices businesses into two publicly traded companies from mid-2015...

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Bayer to Invest More Than €500 Million in Haemophilia Pipeline

12.03.2014 - BayerHealthcare plans to invest more than €500 million at its sites in Wuppertal and Leverkusen, Germany, to expand capacity for production of its recombinant factor VIII...

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Bayer Strikes Deal for Chinese Herbal Medicines Producer

28.02.2014 - In a deal expected to close in the second half of 2014, Bayer has said it will buy privately held Dihon Pharmaceutical Group, a maker of traditional herbal Chinese medicines (TCM)...