01.06.2014
- UK pharmaceutical producer GlaxoSmithKline has invited private equity firms to consider making offers for a range of its older drugs, news agencies report, citing people familiar...
16.05.2014
- Shortly before expiration of the patent on the multiple sclerosis treatment Copaxone, a US district court has dismissed a case by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, subsidiary of the...
09.05.2014
- Surplus and idle assets - Throughout industry, pressure to squeeze maximum return from each and every asset is intense. This principle drives process simplification and the focus...
08.05.2014
- British prime minister David Cameron has called on U.S. drugmaker Pfizer to give stronger guarantees it will keep jobs and investment in the UK if it is to secure his government's...
08.05.2014
- In contrast to chemicals, the global pharmaceutical industry is little plagued by market cyclicality or general economic swings. But it faces equally daunting challenges, as the...
07.05.2014
- The UK could use its public interest powers to intervene in U.S. drugmaker Pfizer's potential takeover of British pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca, Business Secretary Vince Cable...
05.05.2014
- U.S. drugmaker Pfizer increased its offer for the UK's AstraZeneca on May 2 to £63 billion ($106 billion) but the proposal, which would create the world's biggest pharmaceuticals...
05.05.2014
- With UK consumer health giant Reckitt having bowed out of the race to acquire the consumer business of U.S. drugmaker Merck & Co, Germany's Bayer is said to be in exclusive...
