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...The US drugmaker has spent almost $30bn on acquisitions over the past two years, snapping up Arena Pharmaceuticals, Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Global Blood Therapeutics, ReViral and Trillium Therapeutics....
...“The optics here proved to be far more important than he might have appreciated and it’s come back to bite him.”...
...The current version, mostly acquired with Wyeth in 2009, includes brands such as Centrum supplements and ChapStick....
...But it subsequently took on a new portfolio when it acquired Wyeth in 2010....
...for its Protonix heartburn drug....
...And one of the key — and legitimate — sources of returns from mergers is sacking people. Before Pfizer bought Wyeth in 2009, the two companies employed 124,000 people. Pfizer now employs 78,000....
...company; cost savings reminiscent of the Wyeth deal; and, of course, a very low tax rate....
...Martoma had obtained non-public information about an experimental drug for Alzheimer’s that was being developed by listed companies Elan and Wyeth....
...When Pfizer revealed its most recent mega-merger, the $68bn takeover of Wyeth in 2009, Jeffrey Kindler, then chief executive, hailed the deal as “a powerful opportunity to transform our industry”....
...The marriage between the makers of Viagra and Botox would, if consummated, create the world’s biggest pharmaceuticals group....
...However, a Pfizer-Allergan tie-up, would be the first full-scale combination between two top-20 pharma groups since Pfizer bought Wyeth and Merck acquired Schering-Plough in 2009....
...for $90bn in 2000 and Wyeth for $68bn in 2009, were formed....
...Since the start of last year, pharmaceuticals companies have agreed $462bn of mergers and acquisitions — greater than the gross domestic product of Austria....
...Since 2000, the US company has ploughed about $100bn into drug development – more than any other pharmaceutical company and one-third more than AstraZeneca....
...Modern Pfizer, with its $193bn market capitalisation, is cost-reduction via mega-merger made flesh. Its last big deal, $68bn for Wyeth in 2009, began with $4bn in promised savings....
...A year before, Pfizer had bought Wyeth, a rival drugmaker, for $68bn. It was the latest in a succession of large deals that greatly increased Pfizer’s scale but had done little for shareholder returns....
...Some analysts have expressed puzzlement over Pfizer’s move, which seems at odds with Mr Read’s efforts in recent years to slim down the group after a series of megadeals such as its $69bn takeover of Wyeth...
...Since acquiring large US rival Wyeth in 2009, it has cut its research budget from $11bn to $6.7bn. To believe it would act differently with AstraZeneca seems simply naive....
...In the five years since Pfizer bought Wyeth, it has cut about half the total research and development spending made by the two companies the year before the deal....
...For Pfizer, a deal would add to its history of megamergers, including its $69bn takeover of Wyeth in 2009 and its $111.8bn deal with Warner-Lambert in 2000....
...Pfizer has a history of big acquisitions, such as its $68bn takeover of Wyeth in 2009 and its $56bn deal with Pharmacia in 2002....
...While other pharmaceutical groups have grown through developing and commercialising their own products, the US giant has maintained its leading position in large part through takeovers....
...Cost savings from its last big deal – the takeover of Wyeth in 2009 – are difficult to measure, as is so often the case for anyone trying to analyse the consequences of a deal....
...“There is its acquisition of Warner-Lambert in 2000 in the US; Pharmacia in Sweden in 2003; and Wyeth in the US in 2000, and that led to deep cuts in the research facilities, it led to intellectual asset-stripping...
...Announcing measures related to the integration of Wyeth, which it acquired in 2009 for $68bn, Pfizer said it would leave the city and move 1,400 staff to a nearby site at Groton....
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