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...tribe in what is now Rhode Island....
...His original mix of European and American vintage modern pieces with tribal, industrial and found objects remains much the same today, although Wyeth’s sole location is now Sagaponack, in The Hamptons....
...It comes as a surprise, particularly as the new building is now defined by what looks like a huge new frontage to the South Dixie Highway, with a massive new neon sign on top....
...But it subsequently took on a new portfolio when it bought Wyeth in 2010, acquiring well-known products such as Centrum vitamins and ChapStick....
...He spun off the group’s pharmaceutical division, now known as Indivior, to focus on the group’s consumer health arm in 2014....
...I used to keep them in the fridge until they told me not to as it spoils the chocolate. Now I can’t buy as many as I would like....
...Andrew Wyeth’s “Flood Plain”, once owned by Charlton Heston, is also at Sotheby’s, estimated to fetch $2-$3m....
...He is now chairman of Apple and chief executive of a Google-backed biotech venture, Calico, set up to research age-related diseases....
...For generic manufacturers such as Teva, Mylan and Actavis, the pressure has come from the rise of lower-cost Indian rivals such as Sun Pharma and Cipla....
...Forty years on, he is now widely acknowledged as having transformed woodturning from a practical craft (for spindles, balusters and the like) into an elevated art form....
...executive better known for cost-cutting than dealmaking....
...Pfizer is not known to give up on deals easily....
...At the heart of debate over the future of AstraZeneca is a simple question: In whose hands would the pharmaceutical company’s laboratories produce the most valuable drugs?...
...Some would like to restart where the industry was forced to halt in 2009 with the last wave of mergers, such as Pfizer’s $68bn acquisition of Wyeth....
...The Beijing Times reported that Abbott Laboratories, Danone and Mead Johnson Nutrition were also involved in the probe, along with Wyeth Nutrition, now owned by Nestlé....
...Nycomed, now part of Takeda of Japan, owns the rights to the medicine and licensed it exclusively in the US to Wyeth, which is now part of Pfizer....
...But as Sorkin now reports, SAC may not have shorted Elan and Wyeth at all. Equity swap arrangements were in place that apparently gave SAC neutral positions in both stocks....
...Mr Adondakis, known as Sam, also agreed to co-operate with authorities. Afterwards, FBI agents raided the hedge funds....
...In the 1920s, these pictures were perceived as hosannas to the uplifting power of industry. Now, their palpable shadows read like omens of today’s dismal Detroit....
...“It will come, but not as fast as everyone was anticipating,” cautions Sir Richard Sykes, the former head of what is now GlaxoSmithKline. “It’s unbelievably complicated....
...It is known as the chequebook....
...Together with Frans Humer, then chief executive who is now Roche’s chairman, he went on to co-ordinate a tense $47bn buy-out of minority investors in 2009 of its partner Genentech of the US, which has provided...
...Isomeride, a related compound, was withdrawn in the US in 1997, triggering litigation for Wyeth, Servier’s partner, and a fresh examination of benfluorex....
...It now has a market capitalisation of about $2.1bn and about 3,300 employees, including 1,015 outside the US....
...But now there is going to be a gap.”...
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