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...EU EU-based companies are banned from exporting technology to Russian weapons maker JSC Kalashnikov, among others, as well as pharmaceutical companies, military communications units and shipyards....
...The company reported a group operating loss of $747m, which it blamed primarily on an impairment charge against its US generics business West-Ward Columbus, where it wrote down $920m of intangible assets...
...Pfizer, which sold the Hospira Infusion business to ICU Medical in February 2017, said it was co-ordinating with the new owner to “produce records for the DoJ”....
...The acquisition of West-Ward Columbus is transforming our generics business and the Group as a whole....
...Investors will be looking at two companies which are playing very different strategies as our energy editor Andrew Ward explains....
...“If we tell the Chinese we want their investment but we are less keen on them doing Bradwell, that won’t go down too well with them.”...
...At the time, it was described by union leaders as a “massive blow” that would cause a “skills crisis” in the north-west of England....
...The issue was high on the agenda when political and business leaders met at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January....
...On Friday in the Guardian, Stiglitz noted for example: In today’s economy, many sectors – telecoms, cable TV, digital branches from social media to internet search, health insurance, pharmaceuticals, agro-business...
...In reply to a suggestion that transparency is not the same thing as accountability — putting everything online means you can see what the foundation is doing, but does not mean that it is being held to...
...“We’re not in the business of pharmaceuticals but we looked at the data and became more and more enthused about the potential for this vaccine,” said Carl Maas, head of corporate social responsibility for...
...“This year has seen more volatility than usual but volatility is part of doing business in this region and we have got used to it,” said Mr Darwazah....
...Investors have been urging Teva to be more aggressive with its strong balance sheet as rivals such as Actavis have gobbled up assets in a wave of pharmaceuticals mergers and acquisitions over the past year...
...Andrew Ward ● The big picture will dominate results announcements at Barclays and Royal Bank of Scotland as investors look for updates on strategic revamps....
...Pharmaceutical groups have reduced direct spending on research....
...It’s a portrait of prosperity, in which extreme forms of suffering are the cost of doing business. By the late 19th century, this festive panorama unravelled....
...Much like the pharmaceuticals sector, medical device manufacturers have been embroiled in a wave of mergers and acquisitions in the past year as they seek greater scale and growth....
...Creating flexible, responsive strategies in this way is increasingly possible in business as flows of data improve.....
...£65.8m in an initial public offering, writes Andrew Ward....
...The debt, while about the same absolute size as Venezuela’s, for a population one-tenth as large, is not the heart of the issue....
...GSK seeks contrarian cure by shedding drugs portfolio GlaxoSmithKline this week set out a turnround plan that rested upon a contrarian view of the future of the pharmaceuticals industry, writes Andrew Ward...
...Mark Clark, analyst at Deutsche Bank, says: “We see the industry’s efforts – especially in regard to strengthening local healthcare capacity – as a clear case of ‘doing the right thing’ while making a strategic...
...He wants to split the chemicals business from the agriculture, nutrition and health businesses, and says that doing so would save $2bn to $4bn of operating costs....
...There is a way to profit from the current unprecedented pace of population change and several large fund management groups are turning their collective hands to doing just that....
...Invensys employs some 1,100 people in the UK at locations such as Worthing and Crawley in West Sussex but is predominantly US-focused....
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