Germany's Merck buys Serono in $8 bln deal
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German drugmaker Merck MRCG.DE on   Thursday agreed to buy a 64.5 percent stake in rival Serono   SEO.VX in a surprise deal valued over 10 billion Swiss francs   ($8.3 billion), creating a new force in European   pharmaceuticals.
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L&#39;azienda farmaceutica Merck &amp; Co. Inc ha annunciato il ritiro volontario dalla commercializzazione a livello mondiale, e quindi anche in Italia, della specialitÃ  medicinale Vioxx (molecola rofecoxib), prodotto
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Bayer AG, the German drug and chemical company, has agreed to sell its plasma products business for &#36;590 million in cash and stock to the private U.S. investment groups Cerberus Capital Management and Ampersand Ventures.
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Belgian drugmaker UCB UCBBt.BR has   agreed to buy Germany's Schwarz Pharma SRZG.DE for around 4.4   billion euros ($5.6 billion) in stock and cash, in the third   major drug sector transaction in Germany in five days.
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Henkel KgaA, the German maker of Persil detergent and Dial soap, will buy Sovereign Specialty Chemicals Inc. for about $575 million.
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Merck & Co. Inc. MRK.N has declared  its regular quarterly dividend, maintaining its status as one  of the richest dividend payors among blue-chip stocks, even  following the withdrawal of its arthritis drug Vioxx and  subsequent loss of nearly $27 billion in market value.
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Private equity firm The Carlyle Group  is mulling a bid for the generics business of Germany's Merck  KGaA , a unit worth at least 4 billion euros ($5.3  billion), a source close to the process said.
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Nestle , the world's largest food group, is buying the medical nutrition business of Swiss pharmaceutical group Novartis AG  for $2.525 billion, the companies said on Thursday.
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Shares of drugmaker Merck & Co. Inc.  traded 1.52 percent higher on volume of more than 61,000 shares in pre-market dealings on Friday, a day after the stock plunged to an eight-year low after the company withdrew its arthritis drug Vioxx.
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Merck of Germany announced it would take control of Serono, a Swiss pharmaceutical maker, for 10.6 billion euros ($13.5 billion).
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Shares of Merck plunge after a Wall Street Journal article about the blockbuster arthritis medication. By Associated Press. WHITEHOUSE STATION, NJ - Shares of Merck &amp; Co.
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Schering-Plough Corp  has agreed to buy Akzo Nobel NV's  drugs unit Organon BioSciences for 11 billion euros ($14.4 billion) in a bid to gain scale and diversify away from cholesterol medicine.
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Nonbinding offers for the generics  business of Merck KGaA , worth at least 4 billion  euros ($5.3 billion), are due on Monday, a source close to the  sale process told Reuters, confirming a newspaper report.
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Perrigo (PRGO:Nasdaq - news - research), a maker of nonprescription drugs and nutritional products, said Monday that it would acquire Agis Industries, the second largest drug company in Israel, for stock and cash worth $818 million.
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Merck & Co Inc's Gardasil, the first   vaccine to prevent cervical cancer, has been approved for sale   in the Europe Union, the joint venture that will market the   product in Europe said on Friday.
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UK brewer Scottish & Newcastle agrees to be bought by Heineken and Carlsberg for Â£7.8bn.
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Swiss biotech company Addex Pharmaceuticals SA  could receive more than $700 million from Merck & Co Inc  for a licensing deal on its ADX63365 drug for schizophrenia.