Barr tops Actavis with $2.5 bln Pliva offer
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Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc  moved  back into pole position in the race for Croatian drugmaker  Pliva  on Monday after unveiling a revised $2.5 billion  takeover offer that trumped a bid from Actavis .
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Rosoboronexport acquistera la Altis Semiconductor
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ID Biomedical Corp. IDB.TO IDBE.O  signed a distribution deal for its Fluviral drug that could  reap sales of up to $2.5 billion over a decade and help U.S.  authorities ease a vaccine shortage as early as next year, it  said on Monday.
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The Oakland Athletics and left-handed reliever Alan Embree agreed to a $5.5 million, two-year contract Wednesday, and the club also was closing in on a one-year deal with Mike Piazza.
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Consolidation in Europe's drugs   sector gathered steam on Thursday as Germany's Merck unveiled a   $13.3-billion deal to buy Europe's top biotech firm Serono, and   Denmark's Nycomed won the drugs unit of Altana.
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Tellabs (TLAB:Nasdaq - news - research) rose early Wednesday after it slashed 20% from the price it will pay for Advanced Fibre (AFCI:Nasdaq - news - research).
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Schering-Plough Corp.  on Monday said quarterly earnings more than doubled on growing demand for its Zetia and Vytorin cholesterol drugs and its treatments for arthritis and allergies.
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PARIS/LONDON  - Sanofi-Aventis shares rose on   Friday after a U.S. judge blocked further sales of generic   Plavix, but gains were capped as it warned cheap supplies of   the blood-thinner already in the market would hit 2006 profits.
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Unipetrol (Czech Republic), petrochemical holding, has sold the synthetic rubber producer Kaucuk (Kralupy and Vltavou, Czech Republic) to the chemical company Dwory (Poland) for EUR 195 mil, about CEK 5.5 bil.
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GlaxoSmithKline PLC said Friday it had acquired the privately held biotechnology company Domantis Ltd. for 230 million pounds ($454 million) in cash.
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Gallaher Group, the maker of the Benson & Hedges brand in Europe, said it had received an offer of Â£7.5 billion ($14.7 billion).
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BRISBANE, Calif. -- A Brisbane company has been awarded an $877.5 million contract to supply 75 million doses of anthrax vaccine to the federal government, company officials said today.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.  on Monday said it had pleaded guilty to two federal criminal counts related to allegations it had illegally concealed a deal to block introduction of a generic form of its blockbuster Plavix anti-clotting drug.
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The drugmaker signed a deal to authorize a generic form of its osteoporosis drug Fosamax, which has annual sales of $3 billion, making it the worldâs top-selling drug for osteoporosis.
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Xstrata PLC, the world's third-largest copper producer, said Tuesday it will raise 2.9 billion pounds ($5.47 billion) in a special equity offering to help finance its takeover of Canadian mining company Falconbridge Ltd.
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Station Casinos Inc.  has accepted a revised buyout offer valued at about $5.5 billion from a group that includes the company's founding family and real-estate firm Colony Capital LLC, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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Medarex Inc., a Princeton, NJ, biotechnology company, could receive up to $510 million under a global collaboration deal it signed with New York-based Pfizer Inc.