GlaxoSmithKline buys Domantis for 230 million pounds
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British pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has said that it had agreed to buy antibody therapy developer Domantis for 230 million pounds (339 million euros, 451 million dollars) in cash.
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German drug firm Schwarz Pharma is being bought in a 4.4bn euro deal, the third industry tie-up in recent days.
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GlaxoSmithKline GSK.L won a   partial victory on Wednesday in its bid to stop Spanish drug   wholesalers from re-exporting its medicines at high premiums.
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GlaxoSmithKline GSK.L won a   partial victory from a European Union court on Wednesday in its   bid to stop Spanish drug wholesalers from re-exporting its   medicines at high premiums.
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London - British drinks giant Diageo on Tuesday said it had raised $2.26 billion (R15 billion) from the sale of 49.9 million shares in US food company General Mills.
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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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Deutsche Boerse AG, Europe&#39;s largest stock exchange by market value, made a 1.35 billion-pound ($2.6 billion) takeover offer for London Stock Exchange Plc, its second attempt in five years to buy the UK company.
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Pharmacy-benefits manager Medco  Health Solutions Inc.  said on Tuesday it agreed to buy  PolyMedica Corp.  for $1.2 billion, in a move to expand  its diabetes care services.
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The Perrigo Company, the world's largest maker of store-branded over-the-counter drugs, reached an agreement to buy Agis Industries, a developer and manufacturer of prescription generic drugs.
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NEW YORK/PHILADELPHIA  - Pharmacy benefits manager Medco Health Solutions Inc  said on Tuesday that it would buy PolyMedica Corp , which distributes blood-glucose tests, for $1.2 billion to expand its services for diabetics.
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Eurocastle Investment, a London-listed group managed by US private equity group Fortress Investment, is to pay â¬300m (Â£210m) for a Deutsche Bank property portfolio, the latest deal in the vast property sell-off under way in Germany.
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Mumbai, Oct. 15: GlaxoSmithkline (GSK) today announced a breakthrough in malaria vaccine development. This followed encouraging results from a paediatric safety and efficacy clinical trial of the vaccine in Africa.
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Serono SA , one of the world's largest biotechnology companies, was bought yesterday by German chemical giant Merck KGaA in a deal worth more than $13 billion.
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FRANKFURT/ZURICH  - German drugmaker Merck KGaA   MRCG.DE unveiled a surprise $13.3 billion deal to buy   Europe's biggest biotech firm Serono SEO.VX on Thursday,   creating a new force in European pharmaceuticals.
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US consumer healthcare company Perrigo is to buy Israeli drug-maker Agis for $818m (Â£441.5m) in cash and stock. The deal will create a firm with annual sales of $1.
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Smiths Group is to buy Medex, a US healthcare company, for $925m (Â£477m), including $300m of debt, in the biggest deal for the UK engineering conglomerate since the merger of Smiths and TI Group in 2000.
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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.