05.07.2013
- Clariant opened its new Leather Excellence Center in Ranipet, Chennai today. The Swiss-based specialty chemicals company has two Indian production sites, both located in the...
01.06.2013
- India's Sun Pharmaceutical Industries is in talks to buy Sweden's Meda for between $5 billion and $6 billion to boost its generics business in developed markets, two sources with...
11.05.2013
- The world's biggest drug makers have for years enjoyed rich premiums for their medicines in the U.S. market. Those days may be coming to an end. Companies like Pfizer and...
04.05.2013
- Health officials in India have revoked Johnson & Johnson's license to make cosmetics at a plant outside Mumbai after they discovered the company had used an unauthorized process...
30.04.2013
- Anglo-Dutch consumer goods giant Unilever will pay as much as $5.4 billion to raise its stake in its Indian unit, Hindustan Unilever, to up to 75% in a bet on fast-growing spending...
22.04.2013
- South Africa plans to overhaul its intellectual property laws to improve access to cheaper medicines by making it harder for pharmaceutical firms to register and roll-over patents...
11.04.2013
- Arkema and Jayant Agro have signed a joint venture agreement whereby Arkema will acquire a stake of some 25% in Ihsedu Agrochem, a subsidiary of Jayant Agro, specializing in the...
09.04.2013
- Technology company The Linde Group has been awarded a major contract by Reliance Industries (RIL) to build several plants to generate and purify gases in Jamnagar, India. Part of...