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...Elsewhere, ON Semiconductors reports in the morning, while insurer Aflac, Stryker Corporation and NXP Semiconductors report after the closing bell....
...Alvaro Estevez will also join JPM from Bank of America Merrill Lynch as head of the Emea multinational corporations team....
...And it is not only big corporations and small enterprises that could benefit, but also consumers in their homes. 3D Systems last year launched a basic $1,300 Cubify printer aimed at domestic users....
...Now corporations are increasingly acting like the military....
...In the orthopaedic implant sector, big groups such as Stryker, a leading US maker of artificial joints such as hips, is also using the process, while another leader in this application is Adler Ortho, a...
...Healthcare stocks bounced back from Friday’s big sell-off but analysts remained concerned that government healthcare schemes may limit expensive cardiovascular and orthopedic treatments....
...The purchases follow talk that a rebel group of shareholders was looking to put pressure on News Corporation to significantly raise its bid for BSkyB....
...The talk in the market was that S&N could be a target for US rivals Stryker Corporation or Biomet....
...Smith & Nephew added: “We are disturbed about the current trends concerning corporation tax in the UK.”...
...[Via Reuters] S&N said the deal would increase its share of the global orthopaedic reconstruction market to around 12 per cent, making it the world’s fourth-biggest player behind Johnson & Johnson, Stryker...
...The deal comes three months after S&N failed to complete a transformational deal with its US rival Biomet which left it vulnerable to a takeover by larger rivals – Johnson & Johnson, Stryker and Zimmer....
...Potential trade buyers such as Johnson & Johnson, Stryker and Zimmer could face anti-trust issues if they went after S&N....
...We’ve got you a splendid new acquisition – Plus Orthopedics. It’s Swiss – beautifully engineered, as you’d expect from the clock people....
...Based in Warsaw, Indiana, Biomet is best known for its orthopedic products, such as joint replacements and spinal products....
...“It was a realisation that non-profit organisations have equally challenging business needs and issues as for-profit corporations,” she says....
...acquisition of United Defense, Britain’s BAE also becomes the second-largest maker of land-based weapons system in the world, behind only Virginia-based General Dynamics, maker of the US army’s Abrams tank and Stryker...
...Biofuels Corporation, which is aiming to become one of Europe’s largest producers of biodiesel, rose 4.9 per cent to 1815p after a positive trading update....
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