06.01.2017
- Pharmaceutical companies paid twice as much for acquisitions in 2016 than a year earlier, according to an analysis of the 316 drugs-sector deals of the past three years carried out...
29.11.2016
- Monsanto subsidiary, The Climate Corporation, has acquired VitalFields, a farm management software company based in Tallinn, Estonia, for an undisclosed sum. Having previously...
22.08.2016
- The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has cleared ChemChina’s proposed takeover of Swiss seeds giant Syngenta. Although hailed as a major step forward...
28.07.2016
- US coatings specialist PPG Industries has agreed to sell its flat glass manufacturing and glass coatings operations to Mexico’s Vitro for around $750 million. The agreement will...
20.05.2016
- Speculation rampant a week ago that Bayer could be preparing a hostile bid for Monsanto was confirmed by the two companies on May 18 and 19. On the heels of Monsanto’s announcement...
09.05.2016
- Confirming speculation that surfaced in March, German chemical producer Evonik has announced it will acquire the Specialty & Coating Additives business of US gases producer Air...
25.04.2016
- US chemical producer W. R. Grace has agreed to acquire the assets of BASF’s polyolefin catalysts business for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition includes technologies, patents...
24.03.2016
- US drugmaker Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) has signed an agreement to acquire Padlock Therapeutics, a privately owned biotechnology firm based at Cambridge, Massachusetts, which...
