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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....
...He told MPs there had been 65,000 jobs cuts made worldwide by Pfizer since 2005....
...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)....
...beyondbrics India v China: a new race in biopharmaceuticals, beyondbrics...
...Pfizer did not blame government policy for the closure, part of a cost-cutting overhaul of its research and development operations worldwide....
...Employees took 180m sick days overall, most of them genuine, and averaged 6.4 days each, according to a survey by the business group and Pfizer, the pharmaceuticals company....
...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....
...With the recent emergence of high-profile cases such as Nokia v iPhone, this could see patent cases in the mobile phone industry for some time to come.”...
...At a “youth summit” in Birmingham, the prime minister said 150 employers including Microsoft, Bovis Lend Lease, Pfizer and Phones4U were supporting the government’s Backing Young Britain campaign....
...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....
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...Companies offering similar programmes include Accenture, IBM, PwC, Pfizer and Cisco. The programmes come at a high price....
...Kindler, Chairman and CEO, Pfizer Inc., USA Klaus Kleinfeld, President and CEO, Siemens AG, Germany Mustafa V....
...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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