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...Rivals AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Russia’s Sputnik V and new entrants such as Novavax make up the remainder of the market, which is forecast to double in value to $124bn next year....
...The AU will pay $6.75 a dose for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine and $10 for Johnson & Johnson’s, a single-dose product....
...After such strong reads from the first two releases (three if we count Russia’s Sputnik V), the disappointing AZN figures were perhaps bound to prompt downward pressure on the company’s shares....
...In August, Russia became the first country to approve a Covid-19 vaccine — named Sputnik V — for civilian use, but western experts cast doubt on its efficacy and safety....
...Cadbury chairman Sir Roger Carr fought a skilful defence, extracting an £11.5bn consideration from Kraft boss Irene Rosenfeld. He then campaigned to make the Pusu mandatory....
...“What we’ve seen this year is not just large strategic deals that changed industry structures, but the speed with which consolidation happened,” said Michael Carr, head of Americas M&A at Goldman Sachs....
...The proposed takeover by Pfizer of AstraZeneca has engaged the public, enraged politicians and triggered, in some quarters, a demand for legislation to frustrate foreign ownership....
...Sir Roger Carr, who was chairman of Cadbury before the takeover, observed: “This tactic is increasingly used . . . to wear down the prey.”...
...The political controversy over Kraft’s takeover of Cadbury, the confectioner, in 2010, and a subsequent speech by the UK company’s former chairman Sir Roger Carr, led to revisions of the Takeover Code in...
...After the deal, Sir Roger Carr, then chairman of Cadbury, said that increase in the proportion of hedge funds among Cadbury’s shareholders was a weakness for the group, as he believed they were likely to...
...The possibility of a Pfizer/AstraZeneca deal still has the politicians talking (the chief executives of both were hauled before the UK parliament this week)....
...Conan Carr and colleagues compare stocks in four regions – Europe, the US, Japan and emerging markets – using standardised accounting, valuation and growth metrics. The twist?...
...Jeffrey Carr, general counsel at FMC Technologies, prefers not even to use the word “alternative” to describe his risk/reward system, in which outside counsel have to share risk with the company....
...Jeffrey Carr, Senior vice-president and general counsel, FMC Technologies Jeffrey Carr is a vocal advocate for change in the legal industry....
...beyondbrics India v China: a new race in biopharmaceuticals, beyondbrics...
...So he recruited to his small team a front-line veteran of 20 years, Tanya Carr-Waldron....
...“There have been a lot [of product launches] under Kraft, for example the Spots v Stripes Challenge Bar as part of the Olympic campaign,” he says....
...Pfizer, the largest US drugmaker by market value, inched down 0.7 per cent to $14.54 as the stock being removed from the “conviction buy” list at Goldman Sachs....
...In December 2002, they made a bolder move, spending $4.2bn to buy a gum company called Adams that had been put up for sale by the US drugs company Pfizer....
...Last week’s US jobs report has knocked investor confidence, and those predicting a V-shaped recovery are finding it harder to justify their positions....
...This spurred groups such as Pfizer of the US and Roche of Switzerland to strike multi-billion-dollar deals during the first half of this year....
...Kindler, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer Inc., USA Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO, Siemens AG, Germany Mustafa V....
...Bill Carr, Amazon vice president of digital media, said customers could now choose between DVDs delivered to their door or DVD-quality downloaded content....
...“The lines between pure law and the demands of society for change in corporate behaviour are blurring,” says Jeffrey Kindler, vice-chairman and general counsel at Pfizer, the pharmaceuticals company....
...He was born in 1954, the year, as he points out, of the famous Brown v Board of Education case which paved the way for US desegregation....
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