04.05.2017
- China has become the second major trading bloc to conditionally approve the proposed $130 merger of US chemical giants Dow and DuPont. The green light from the Ministry of Commerce...
18.04.2017
- US coatings specialist Axalta has agreed to buy Valspar’s North American industrial wood coatings business for $420 million in cash, a move that should appease regulators...
08.03.2017
- ChemChina confirmed on Mar. 6 that the government in Beijing has accepted its application for regulatory approval of the company’s planned $43 billion takeover of Swiss...
09.12.2016
- Shares of Israeli drugmaker Teva took a hit earlier this week when the company announced that its generics CEO, Siggi Olafsson, was leaving the company and would be replaced by...
08.09.2016
- An unnamed top-30 investor in Bayer has called the German group’s enhanced $127.50 per share revised offer for Monsanto, aimed at securing a deal to buy U.S. rival Monsanto, “far...
14.06.2016
- Swiss specialty chemicals producer Clariant and Newcastle, UK-based Kilfrost have terminated the planned sale of the British company’s European aircraft and rail de-/anti-icing...
07.10.2015
- Kemal Malik, board member for innovation at the German Bayer Group, sees many similarities in the genetic system of humans, animals and plants. This opens the door for synergies in...
12.04.2015
- Generic drugmaker Mylan has made an offer of $ $28.86 billion in stock and cash to acquire rival Perrigo. A merger of the two major players would create a leader in specialty drugs...
