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...
28.04.2014
- Germany's Bayer and British consumer products giant Reckitt are said to have emerged as frontrunners to win the auction for the Merck & Co consumer products unit, each reportedly...
13.02.2013
- An unusually severe cold and flu season in the United States helped drive full-year profits higher at Britain's Reckitt Benckiser, maker of Strepsils throat lozenges and Mucinex...
20.11.2012
- German drugmaker Bayer gave up trying to buy Schiff Nutrition after Reckitt Benckiser made a higher offer for the U.S. vitamin maker. "Bayer's Board of Management has decided not...