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...The state agency that channels seed capital and other funding to companies seeking to emulate successful global champions — like building materials giants CRH and Kingspan, food group Kerry Group, packaging...
...Maison François, London Until 17 April, fans of François O’Neill’s French-style St James’s brasserie can celebrate spring with a playful “Cochon de Pâques” – a limited-edition Easter egg in the shape of...
...The gas is also used in food and drink production and packaging....
...Last week, Blackstone increased its offer for St Modwen Properties after shareholders objected to the original price....
...The UK group, which provides clinical, commercial, communication and packaging services for the healthcare industry, will set a new schedule for shareholder approval if an increased bid is tendered....
...“It’s a Cinderella story,” said Stacey Schultz-Cherry, an infectious disease specialist at St Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in Tennessee....
...In April last year, Abbott announced a $25bn acquisition of St Jude Medical. Clinching both deals would see its debt soar from $9bn to $31bn, the FT has previously reported....
...“Taiwanese semiconductor makers put more focus on specialty memory products and niche markets, in which sectors there is few comparable rival company or capacity in the US,” Jian-Hong Lin, research manager...
...Coming off a 35-year period in which real earnings have been essentially flat, according to data from the St....
...with €3.9bn Ablynx deal (FT) Sanofi/Novo Nordisk: blood money (FT Lex) Dell is considering a sale to VMware in what may be tech’s biggest deal ever (CNBC) UBS bankers ’frustrated’ with growth on Wall St...
...There are plenty of others, including St Jude Medical (acquired by Abbott Laboratories in January of this year), which is currently battling lawsuits relating to vulnerabilities in its implantable cardiac...
...Yet Berkshire has been making an aggressive push into AIG’s turf, poaching several of its executives to run the recently established Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance....
...St Jude Medical has filed a suit against Muddy Waters, a hedge fund that said last month that the company’s cardiac pacemakers were vulnerable to cyber attacks, alleging that it intentionally made misleading...
...St Jude’s stock price tumbled as much as 10.4 per cent on the day the allegations were revealed....
...The fall in St Jude’s share price might provide an arbitrage opportunity for one of those bog-standard hedge funds. lex@ft.com...
...He said he would not implant the St Jude Medical pacemakers in patients until the problem was fixed....
...But in April it announced a $25bn acquisition of St Jude Medical. Clinching both deals would see its debt soar from $9bn to $31bn....
...St Jude Medical, a pacemaker manufacturer, was accused in August of having a security flaw in its devices in a report propagated by Muddy Waters....
...He said that the £20m in annual cost savings that Post would seek from the deal would come from procurement synergies, such as in packaging, rather than redundancies....
...The offer represents a 37 per cent premium on St Jude’s closing share in Wednesday at $61.97, writes James Fontanella-Khan, US M&A correspondent....
...This represents a 37 per cent premium to St Jude’s closing share price of $61.97 on Wednesday....
...The union of medical device makers Abbott Laboratories and St Jude Medical was rumoured last year. Sanofi felt good enough to make a $9bn hostile bid for biotech upstart Medivation....
...US pharmaceutical Abbott Laboratories also on Thursday announced a $25bn deal for St Jude Medical, while France’s Sanofi earlier today went public with the details of an unsolicited bid for San Francisco-based...
...St Jude’s lawsuit was filed before this one went to trial. Broadly, though, doesn’t it sort of make turf-battle-y sense for securities litigators to take on company lawsuits against short sellers?...
...In addition to the $25bn offer, Abbott would assume $5bn of net debt held by St Jude, according to Dealogic....
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