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...Last week, a verdict was passed down in the case of Walkers Snack Foods Ltd v Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, with first-tier tribunal judges Anne Fairpo and Sonia Gable ruling against...
...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....
...Wisconsin would invest $3bn in economic incentives as part of what its governor Scott Walker said was the “single largest economic development project” in the state’s history....
...The largest animal health specialist is Zoetis, which was spun out from Pfizer in an initial public offering in 2013....
...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)....
...“Have mercy on thy servants,” pleaded Sir David Walker, the chairman, “For Libor-related penalties in 2012 have skewed the numbers”. But these were Old Testament lions who didn’t do forgiveness....
...Analysts are looking for the maker of Smirnoff vodka and Johnnie Walker Scotch whisky to lift organic operating profit by 8.6 per cent, pre-exceptionals, to £2bn....
...For example, Kent Walker, general counsel of Google, was active in the company’s decision to withdraw from China....
...beyondbrics India v China: a new race in biopharmaceuticals, beyondbrics...
...Faidla Mrkulic, a 60-year-old office cleaner at Pfizer’s midtown office, said: “I was able to send my kids to school, to put food on the table, to pay my rent. The young generation deserves better....
...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....
...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....
...It was Tom Peters who pointed out that we’re all CEOs of Me Inc, but he missed a trick in not seeing that Me Inc needs some decent corporate governance....
...The Walkers and the Bushes were completely different....
...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....
...The biggest growth, however, came from ready to drink, where the US launch of Smirnoff Twisted V pushed organic growth up 7 per cent....
...V is for virgin, judged best new client for Virgin Mobile, Virgin Trains and Virgin Mobile Australia. W is for why not?...
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