May 23, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Moscow Times 22 May 2013 Russneft CEO Mikhail Gutseriyev paid $20 million for 41 percent of Krasnaya Polyana, which is building a ski resort in Sochi, he said in an interview with the Dozhd television channel, Vedomosti reported Wednesday. He said a friend of his,...
May 23, 2013 | News, Western Europe
Financial Times 20 May 2013 Actavis sought to fend off takeover threats by purchasing Dublin-based rival Warner Chilcott in a $5bn deal designed to turn it into the world’s third-largest generic drug company by sales. The agreed all-stock deal, worth $8.5bn including...
May 23, 2013 | East Asia, News, North America
Takeda Obtains Promising Vaccine Candidates Against Dengue and Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease, Advancing Takeda’s Commitment to Vaccines and Global Health Osaka, Japan, May 8, 2013, Deerfield, IL and Fort Collins, CO, U.S.A., May 7, 2013 – Takeda Pharmaceutical...
May 23, 2013 | News, Western Europe
PharmaIntellect 16 May 2013 Bayer signed an agreement Thursday to acquire 100% of the shares of Steigerwald Arzneimittelwerk GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany, a privately held pharmaceutical company specializing in pharmacy-only herbal medicines. Steigerwald generated sales...
May 23, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Moscow Times 21 May 2013 Russian cell phone retailer Svyaznoi plans to attract $200 million in a private placement organized by Sberbank CIB with businessman Leonard Blavatnik believed to be interested, a news report said Monday, citing a source close to the...
May 23, 2013 | Central & Eastern Europe, News, Russia
Moscow Times 21 May 2013 The government’s stake in oil company Rosneft could be cut from 75 percent to 51 percent in the future, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said. “We could bring the stake down to 51 percent,” Medvedev told reporters on Saturday....
