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...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....
...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....
...The country started vaccinations in late February after receiving 500,000 Oxford/Astra Zeneca doses from India’s Serum Institute....
...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...
...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....
...Zeneca eventually combined with Astra of Sweden to form the modern-day AstraZeneca....
...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....
...Readers meanwhile sneered at Refinitiv’s cheap and cheerful desktop offer, a Vauxhall Astra to Bloomberg’s Mercedes. Investors rightly credit LSE with skill in integrating big acquisitions....
...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....
...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...
...Podcast: FT Money editor Claer Barrett on investing in pharmaceutical giant Astra Zeneca...
...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....
...Lilly and Astra Zeneca are partnering on one example codenamed AZD3293. Another Lilly inhibitor, though, has already been abandoned because of liver toxicity....
...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....
...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....
...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....
...Astra, the Wallenbergs’ drugmaker, merged with Zeneca, the pharmaceuticals assets of UK chemicals group ICI and set up its headquarters in Britain....
...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...
...“When the original Zeneca was demerged from ICI in 1993 it was worth £6 and over 20 years this has risen to over £40....
...Zeneca subsequently merged with the Swedish company Astra (whose proton pump inhibitor had become the successor therapy to Zantac)....
...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...
...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...
...Sweden’s Astra merged with Zeneca of the UK 15 years ago to create the drugmaker that is now based and listed in Britain....
...From a UK perspective, the Pfizer approach to Astra is ironic in view of the political furore over companies such as Google and Starbucks not paying enough UK corporation tax....
...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...
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