20.09.2010
- An oil major, a luxury cosmetics company and independent directors including a former astronaut will have a key say in what may be the next multi-billion dollar merger to shake the...
26.08.2010
- Sanofi-Aventis shareholders L'oreal and Total worry that the French drugmaker will pay too much for U.S. biotech company Genzyme and are not convinced it is the best fit, bankers...
04.08.2010
- Sanofi-Aventis investors have urged the drugmaker not to pay more than about $19 billion to land Genzyme, some $10 a share below the price wanted by the U.S. biotech group. Two...
23.03.2010
- GlaxoSmithKline has poached a top executive from French cosmetics group L'Oreal as president-designate of its consumer healthcare unit, underscoring the drugmaker's diversification...