Keyword: Life Sciences

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Covestro Share Launch Successful

07.10.2015 - German engineering plastics producer Covestro and its parent company Bayer successfully placed 62.5 million shares of the former Bayer MaterialScience in the Prime Standard of the...

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Brenntag Takes Cargill Small Pack Portfolio

18.09.2015 - Leading chemical distributor Brenntag has acquired Cargill’s small pack specialty business in food and pharma grade alcohol, aimed at customers in cosmetics, pharmaceutical and...

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Lubrizol Acquires Particle Sciences

11.09.2015 - US-based Lubrizol Corporation has acquired Particle Sciences, a compatriot contract drug developer and manufacturer headquartered at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Terms of the...

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Bayer Plans Quick IPO for Covestro

07.09.2015 - After carving out its engineering plastics sub-group Bayer MaterialScience as Covestro on Sept. 1, Bayer is wasting no time pushing the fledgling company to stand on its own feet...

Strategy & Management

Significant Value Creation

03.09.2015 - In September 2014, Merck announced the €13.1 billion acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich, which by mid-August has received antitrust clearance from all relevant jurisdictions including...

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Sanofi Teams with Google on Diabetes Care

01.09.2015 - French pharmaceutical producer Sanofi has announced plans to cooperate with the life sciences team at Google to improve care and outcomes for people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes...

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DSM Reorganizes to Cut Costs and Strengthen Focus

26.08.2015 - Life sciences and materials sciences company DSM has announced a reorganization plan that will result in the loss of 900-1,100 full time jobs by the end of 2017. Roughly half of...

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Roche Agrees to Buy Kapa Biosystems to Boost Next-generation Portfolio

20.08.2015 - Swiss drugmaker Roche has signed an agreement to acquire Kapa Biosystems, a provider of genomic tools in the life sciences sector that uses proprietary technologies to optimize...