Hints and tips:
...Lilly and Astra Zeneca are partnering on one example codenamed AZD3293. Another Lilly inhibitor, though, has already been abandoned because of liver toxicity....
...The sale of Meda risks a further hollowing out of Sweden’s pharmaceuticals sector, which in the past two decades has seen Pharmacia bought by Pfizer of the US and Astra merged with Zeneca of the UK....
...Two years later the pharmaceutical business was spun off as Zeneca....
...Sweden lost the headquarters to both its big drugmakers around the turn of the century with Astra being merged with Zeneca, the spun-out pharmaceutical arms of ICI in the UK, while Pharmacia was sold first...
...Another board member strongly opposed to the deal was Marcus Wallenberg, the Swedish industrialist whose family ties to the company goes back to the 1920s and the founding of Astra, which merged with Zeneca...
...Sweden’s Astra merged with Zeneca of the UK 15 years ago to create the drugmaker that is now based and listed in Britain....
...“When the original Zeneca was demerged from ICI in 1993 it was worth £6 and over 20 years this has risen to over £40....
...Created through a combination of Astra of Sweden and Zeneca of the UK in 1999, the company was more badly hit than most by the drop in sales and innovation that has bedevilled big pharma over recent years...
...AstraZeneca was itself a product of the last big round of industry consolidation when Astra of Sweden merged with Zeneca of the UK in 1999....
...Alderley Park, chosen by the former Imperial Chemical Industries to be its pharmaceutical headquarters after 1950, survived and thrived with its drugs arm spun-off as Zeneca, and again after its merger with...
...The partnership originally dates to a joint venture in 1982 between Merck and Astra, the Swedish part of the group ahead of its merger with Zeneca of the UK....
...But this is no longer the case in Europe where the likes of GSK, Sanofi-Aventis and Astra Zeneca all have separate chairmen and chief executives....
...A serial entrepreneur, Prof Best has a track record in life sciences commercialisation, founding substantial ventures such as Zeneca Plant Science, Roslin Biomed and Ardana....
...Though directors unanimously supported the deal, Sir Tom – who had overseen the merger of Astra and Zeneca – warned that a cross-border deal would be more complex....
...Capital, which historically invested significantly in ICI, the chemicals group, and its pharmaceutical spin-off Zeneca, increased its stake steadily after the merger during the early part of this decade...
...For 25 years chemical engineer Ian Shott built a career in big-name businesses, holding senior executive roles in ICI, Zeneca, Lonza, ChiRex and Rhodia....
...John Mayo, whose Beehive Capital is financing ECS’s Vodafone move, is best remembered for his role at Marconi, although he was also a banker at SG Warburg and later finance director of Zeneca....
...A trader entered Zeneca’s Sedol (CUSIP) number, the six-figure code used by the exchange to identify stocks, instead of the volume, a £21m buy orders for Zeneca shares at three times its price....
...They have to say who they are – patient, health care professional, etc – then why they are contacting Astra Zeneca....
...Glaxo merged with SmithKline, Astra with Zeneca, Pfizer with Pharmacia and, last year, Sanofi with Aventis. But the flow of new medicines remains disappointing....
...McKillop has spent 36 years at AstraZeneca and precursors Zeneca and Imperial Chemical Industries. Not surprisingly, he shares an attribute with every other name on the speculation list. He's a Scot....
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