Aug 21, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE, transactions
In the US health insurance market, another acquisition has taken place. The US insurance group Aetna has strengthened its portfolio with the addition of pharmaceutical and health care company Coventry Health Care Inc., in a deal valued at $7.3bn, including debt. Since...
Aug 20, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE, transactions
Competition authorities have approved the merger of American pharmacy chain Walgreens and British pharmaceutical wholesaler Alliance Boots. Walgreens may thus take a 45% stake, equating to $4bn, of Boots. As part of the merger, Boots boss Stefano Pessina and Dominic...
Apr 12, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE, transactions
Japan’s largest pharmaceutical group Takeda is pressing ahead with its foreign expansion with another big purchase. The buying price for the US drug manufacturer URL Pharma totals 800 million dollars plus additional payments. URL Pharma is known as a specialist...
Apr 5, 2012 | Allgemein, DE, transactions
There has been a change of shareholders at Orthopädie-Technik Berlin (OTB): OTB – one of the largest service providers in the health and medical supplies sector – has been bought by an investors‘ group headed by Tiago da Silva, who has...
Mrz 16, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE, transactions
Several heavy weights in the pharmaceutical industry are interested in the Turkish pharmaceutical company Mustafa Nevzat. Among them is the Germany health group Fresenius, who, along with GlaxoSmithKline from the UK and Pfizer and Merck & Co from the USA, has...
Mrz 15, 2012 | Allgemein, company news @en, DE, transactions
The pharmaceutical manufacturer Stada wanted to lessen its dependence on a strongly regulated home market through two takeovers in Russia and thereby strengthen the position on its most important foreign market. However, for now the transactions have failed. Talks...
