23.03.2015
- Germany's Merck KGaA will promote its deputy chief executive, Stefan Oschmann, to replace current CEO Karl-Ludwig Kley next year, Manager Magazin reported on Friday. Oschmann, 57...
13.03.2015
- Both European and US pharmaceutical industry players are highly research-oriented and possess very diversified portfolios. While each country has its national champions, Swiss...
11.03.2015
- Merck Serono, the biopharmaceutical business of Germany's Merck KGaA, and US biotechnology company Illumina, based at San Diego, California, plan to collaborate on expanding the...
02.03.2015
- Bayer managing board member Werner Bauman, recently named to head the HealthCare sub-group, has vowed to fight for the independence of Germany's largest drugmaker after the carve...
13.02.2015
- German chemical and pharmaceuticals producer Merck KGaA and its UK cooperation partner, flexible electronics specialist FlexEnable, a unit of Plastic Logic, have developed a...
10.12.2014
- German chemical and pharmaceutical producer Merck KGaA has issued a €1.5 billion two-tranche hybrid bond as part of its financing package for the takeover of US fine chemicals...
09.12.2014
- At a special meeting held at the Sigma-Aldrich Life Science and Technology Center in St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 78% of the company's shareholders approved the planned takeover by...
01.12.2014
- Merck KGaA has no plans to divest its consumer health business, but rather intends to expand it, Uta Kemmerich-Keil, CEO of Merck Consumer Health, said at a media briefing in...