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Scientific research
UK signs first post-Brexit life science agreement with Sweden
...Scientific collaboration between Sweden and the UK is already close, anchored in pharmaceuticals by AstraZeneca, the drug company created by the 1999 merger of Britain’s Zeneca with Sweden’s Astra....
May 27, 2022
Letter
Letter: Change at the top understates how FTSE remains the same
...Part of ICI lives on, being the UK pharmaceutical firm Zeneca which was demerged from ICI in 1993 with Astra (Swedish) Zeneca coming together in 1999....
May 12, 2023
FT Live
US Pharma and Biotech Summit
Strategies for innovation, pricing and access
Thursday, 16 MayNew York, NY, USA
Coronavirus: Walmart, Home Depot and Macy’s results buoyed by US stimulus and easing of restrictions - as it happened
Ukraine sacks health minister over vaccine supplies and inoculation campaign
...The country started vaccinations in late February after receiving 500,000 Oxford/Astra Zeneca doses from India’s Serum Institute....
May 18, 2021
Coronavirus: New York City to allow sitting at bars from next week — as it happened
UK business leaders launch national prosperity plan to boost pandemic recovery
...The Covid Recovery Commission, comprised of executives from companies including Vodafone, Astra Zeneca and Shell, said the pandemic had exacerbated existing inequalities and had a bigger impact on the UK...
April 28, 2021
Coronavirus: Pandemic brings mixed fortunes for Nike and FedEx in latest quarter - as it happened
Kyiv tightens restrictions as infections rise and vaccination rollout stumbles
...Officials have given the first of two doses to fewer than 82,000 people even though a month ago it received 500,000 of the Oxford/Astra Zeneca vaccine that was produced by India’s Serum Institute....
March 18, 2021
GSK PLC
GSK to appoint Jonathan Symonds as chairman
...Zeneca eventually combined with Astra of Sweden to form the modern-day AstraZeneca....
July 14, 2019
FT Live
Global Pharma and Biotech Summit
Driving life sciences innovation in a disrupted world
Tuesday, 5 NovemberIn-Person & Online Conference
Pharmaceuticals sector
North takes on South in UK’s life science industry
...It was originally occupied by ICI, one of the giants of the UK’s postwar industrial landscape, whose bioscience business Zeneca demerged in 1993, joining forces with Sweden’s Astra six years later....
July 27, 2019
Pharmaceuticals sector
Incyte slumps 19% after combo therapy fails late-stage test
...Although Keytruda and rival medicines from Bristol-Myers Squibb and Astra Zeneca seem to work remarkably well in between 20 and 30 per cent of patients, the majority do not respond....
April 6, 2018
Money Clinic with Claer Barrett podcast20 min listen
Take Aim - and save on inheritance tax
...FT Money Show presenter Claer Barrett and guests on why it might be a good time to invest in pharmaceutical giant Astra Zeneca, the advantages of investing in Aim shares and the phenomenon of restart parties...
August 3, 2017
European companies
AstraZeneca shares tumble 15% on big drug trial setback
...Podcast: FT Money editor Claer Barrett on investing in pharmaceutical giant Astra Zeneca...
July 27, 2017
Pharmaceuticals sector
AstraZeneca chief strikes defiant tone after drug disappointment
...Joe Walters, senior fund manager at Royal London Asset Management, acknowledged there was “a lot going on underneath the bonnet at Zeneca”, given the strength of the wider pipeline....
July 27, 2017
Anjana Ahuja
Plaques, tangles and the mystery of Alzheimer’s disease
...Lilly and Astra Zeneca are partnering on one example codenamed AZD3293. Another Lilly inhibitor, though, has already been abandoned because of liver toxicity....
November 29, 2016
Mergers & Acquisitions
Mylan to buy Meda in $9.9bn deal
...The sale of Meda risks a further hollowing out of Sweden’s pharmaceuticals sector, which in the past two decades has seen Pharmacia bought by Pfizer of the US and Astra merged with Zeneca of the UK....
February 10, 2016
European companies
AstraZeneca and Wallenbergs join in biological drugs venture
...Together, the investments signal a renewal of its commitment to the Scandinavian country 16 years after the merger of Sweden’s Astra with Zeneca of the UK....
December 11, 2015
European companies
Mylan agrees to buy Sweden’s Meda for $9.9bn including debt
...The sale of Meda risks a further hollowing out of Sweden’s pharmaceuticals sector, which in recent decades has seen Pharmacia bought by Pfizer of the US and Astra merged with Zeneca of the UK....
February 10, 2016
FT Live
Global Private Banking Awards 2024
Celebrating excellence in wealth management
Thursday, 7 NovemberThe Landmark London, London, UK
FT Magazine
Meet the Wallenbergs
...Astra, the Wallenbergs’ drugmaker, merged with Zeneca, the pharmaceuticals assets of UK chemicals group ICI and set up its headquarters in Britain....
June 5, 2015
Letter
Too little, too late in UK’s drug research battle
...This resulted in considerable consolidation of UK research activity and left only one other major UK drug research company, Zeneca, which merged in 1999 with the Swedish company Astra to form Astra-Zeneca...
May 14, 2014
US & Canadian companies
Pfizer snub triggers recrimination at Astra
...“When the original Zeneca was demerged from ICI in 1993 it was worth £6 and over 20 years this has risen to over £40....
May 19, 2014
John Kay
Drug companies are built in labs, not boardrooms
...Zeneca subsequently merged with the Swedish company Astra (whose proton pump inhibitor had become the successor therapy to Zantac)....
May 6, 2014
US & Canadian companies
Pfizer bid for AstraZeneca revives painful memories for Sweden
...Sweden lost the headquarters to both its big drugmakers around the turn of the century with Astra being merged with Zeneca, the spun-out pharmaceutical arms of ICI in the UK, while Pharmacia was sold first...
May 11, 2014
US & Canadian companies
AstraZeneca and Pfizer: High-stakes brinkmanship ends with recriminations
...Another board member strongly opposed to the deal was Marcus Wallenberg, the Swedish industrialist whose family ties to the company goes back to the 1920s and the founding of Astra, which merged with Zeneca...
May 19, 2014
European companies
Swedish leader speaks out against Pfizer approach for AstraZeneca
...Sweden’s Astra merged with Zeneca of the UK 15 years ago to create the drugmaker that is now based and listed in Britain....
May 15, 2014
US & Canadian companies
AstraZeneca warns on ‘big is better’ strategy
...Created through a combination of Astra of Sweden and Zeneca of the UK in 1999, the company was more badly hit than most by the drop in sales and innovation that has bedevilled big pharma over recent years...
April 30, 2014
FT Connected Business podcast20 min listen
The gadgets taking over the enterprise
...Zeneca, the pharmaceutical company, and John Griffiths of PA Consulting Group....
December 3, 2013
US & Canadian companies
Big pharma deals are back in the mix
...AstraZeneca was itself a product of the last big round of industry consolidation when Astra of Sweden merged with Zeneca of the UK in 1999....
April 21, 2014

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