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...Glass Lewis also recommended investors vote for the proposal at Moderna....
...It will be led by Brian McNamara, who oversaw the joint venture when it was part of GSK, and the board will be chaired by former Tesco chief executive Sir Dave Lewis....
...The new company would be led by GSK insider Brian McNamara and its board is due to be chaired by Dave Lewis, the former Tesco chief executive who held senior executive roles at Unilever....
...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....
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...Additional reporting by Jennifer Creery in Hong Kong and Leo Lewis in Tokyo...
...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....
...audit watchdog chief suspended over Wirecard trading (FT) LG faces opposition to spin-off from activist hedge fund (FT) Tata expected to swoop for lossmaking Air India (FT) Tottenham Hotspur owner Joe Lewis...
...A strong retail performance is building hopes for a V-shaped economic recovery but exporters are still suffering, she writes....
...Freda Lewis-Hall, Pfizer’s chief medical officer, said the pharmaceutical group conceived of the new company as a way of ensuring medicines do not end up being shelved, a common problem at large drugmakers...
...Reporting by Sarah Gordon, Leo Lewis, Kana Inagaki, Peter Campbell, Guy Chazan, Stefan Wagstyl and David Bond...
...requiring two-thirds of votes cast to pass, it could yet be scuppered by the large block of foreign investors, who have been encouraged to reject the merger by influential proxy advisers ISS and Glass Lewis...
...The largest animal health specialist is Zoetis, which was spun out from Pfizer in an initial public offering in 2013....
...A renewal of Pfizer’s interest in AZ looks less likely....
...economic benefits based, directly or indirectly, on the value or price of, any capital stock of, or other securities or ownership interests in, the Company (the items in clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v)...
...The company lowered its dividend and announced new chief executive Dave Lewis, would start on Monday – a month earlier than scheduled – in an effort to kick start the turnround process....
...- Longorm podcast with Michael Lewis about how he reports and writes....
...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)....
...“These are not Star Wars technologies that we are still waiting for,” says Freda Lewis-Hall, chief medical officer of Pfizer. “We have many of these technologies now.”...
...David Lewis, vice-president of global taxes and assistant treasurer of Eli Lilly, says that it is “unremarkable” that the company’s reinvested earnings had more than doubled in a period when sales growth...
...Thus, he admires “Germany’s culture of co-determination and labour-management partnership”, for example, or “the John Lewis Partnership in the United Kingdom, employee owned and the best high-quality retail...
...The £69bn bid that Pfizer, made for AstraZeneca unravelled in May after its own discussions with the City M&A watchdog....
...With large pharmaceutical groups such as Pfizer of the US in Sandwich, Kent, closing big facilities and largely handing research over to smaller start-ups, Mr Lewis said there was potential for the Heath...
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