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...A Wockhardt-owned plant in the Welsh town of Wrexham is responsible for putting the vaccine in vials and packaging it for dispatch to the UK regulator for inspection....
...HCA Healthcare chairman and chief executive Milton Johnson announced his plans to retire from the US hospital operator....
...These bankers were hired across M&A, acquisition and leveraged finance, equity capital markets, consumer and retail, healthcare, financial institutions, industrials and technology groups....
...The dispute is part of a wider global battle that has pitted the tobacco industry against governments seeking to discourage a habit that contributes to rising healthcare costs....
...After the disposal, UDG will consist of packaging, marketing services and medical devices distribution businesses....
...In addition to AbbVie’s takeover of Pharmacyclics, three other healthcare deals rank in the top 10 for the quarter....
...Companies’ cost equations have also been hard hit by the impact of the depreciation of the rupee on the prices of palm oil and soda ash – which are key ingredients for soap and detergents – and higher packaging...
...Filtrona gained 4.2 per cent to 690.5p after agreeing to buy drugs packaging maker Contego Healthcare for £160m, partly funded by a share placing at 675p....
...Rexam warned that the impending loss of a patent for one of its healthcare products would pose a challenge in 2012....
...Biopolymers produced at the facility would be used in industries such as healthcare and would be priced at competitive levels compared with products made from fossil fuels, Mr Cirihal said....
...On his own now, he gets no salary and relies on the state for his healthcare, like millions of other British citizens....
...Piramal Health in talks to buy stake in ING Life Piramal Healthcare, which sold its generics unit to Abbott Laboratories for $3.8bn last year, is taking its second step to transform into a financial services...
...A contract win lifted Autonomy by 2 per cent to £14.04, while Reckitt Benckiser gained 1.8 per cent to £35.73 after buying Indian over-the-counter healthcare products maker Paras Pharmaceuticals healthcare...
...“Our packages are not for scientists [or] healthcare professionals but for real people,” he says....
...“This would leave Plastics with reasonably attractive, niche positions in healthcare and personal closures [both profitable and growing] to complement the beverage can business.”...
...Viva Chile!”...
...Meanwhile, Lloyds also plans to sell UK-based Covenant Healthcare to its bigger rival General Healthcare Group, after taking it over from buy-out firm Cognetas....
...He adds that Picard has more than 200 suppliers and can save money, such as by using fewer colours in its packaging....
...Elsewhere, Lloyds Banking Group is close to selling Covenant Healthcare, which owns UK cosmetic surgery group Transform and Abbey private hospitals, to its bigger rival General Healthcare Group, after taking...
...The group, which began in 1828 as a pharmacy in southern China, hopes to expand in healthcare in future....
...Rexam was up 3.4 per cent to 303¼p after Merrill Lynch restarted coverage with a “buy” rating and 380p target price for the packaging maker ....
...But the slump in dealmaking did not prevent a burst of activity in the healthcare sector at the start of the new year....
...When Wal-Mart reduced their packaging 5%, they made $3.4 million, so they’re just announcing a new healthcare plan and I was talking to Lee Scott today, and he told me about another company where the CEO...
...On the downside, packaging group DS Smith shed 14.2 per cent to 144½p after issuing another profits warning, while Northern Foods lost 4p to 88¾p after a 44-page sell note from Citigroup landed on the desks...
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