Jacobs in E240m Pfizer Irish build deal
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Construction company Jacobs Engineering said a subsidiary company has won an E240m contract from Pfizer to expand Pfizer's aseptic production facility in Ireland.
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Pfizer Inc. said on Monday it had  reached a definitive agreement to sell its consumer healthcare  business to Johnson &amp; Johnson for &#36;16.6 billion in cash.
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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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New Brunswick (dpa) -Johnson &amp; JOhnson, one of the world&#39;s largest pharmaceutical and medical devices producers, is buying Guidant Corporation for 25.4 billion dollars, Johnson &amp; JOhnson said Thursday.
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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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Advanced Medical Optics makes an offer to buy its US eye care rival Bausch & Lomb for $4.23bn.
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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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Johnson &amp; Johnson announced a $25.4bn (Â£13.1bn) deal yesterday to buy Guidant Corporation, giving the healthcare company a stake in the fast-growing market for devices that regulate heartbeats.
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Biogen Idec in Cambridge is rumored to be in talks to buy or merge with Elan Corp. in Ireland, though the later company denies any such conversation is taking place, Bloomberg News is reporting.
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US energy exchange Nymex has set up a new oil trading floor in Dublin, Ireland, in a move it hopes will lure disenchanted dealers from London.
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Northern Ireland Electricity and its southern counterpart ESB have made an investment of 19.6mn($24.3m), including 6.5m of European Regional Development Fund support, in the interconnectors which will increase ...
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Enterprise Minister Michael Martin today announced that AK Pharmaceuticals, part of the Aker Kvaerner Group of Norway, is to locate its new engineering centre-of-excellence on the Cork Airport Business Park in ...
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DUBLIN -- US drug company Biogen Idec is considering an all-share bid of more than 8.5 billion euros ($10.6 billion) for Irish peer Elan , a newspaper reported yesterday.
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DUBLIN, Ireland  - U.S. drug company Biogen Idec  is considering an all-share bid of more than 8.5 billion euros  ($10.6 billion) for Irish peer Elan, a newspaper reported on  Sunday.
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German real-estate financing company Hypo Real Estate has agreed to take over Dublin-headquartered Depfa Bank in a shares-and-cash transaction that values Depfa at US$7.9 billion.
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Johnson &amp; Johnson, the pharmaceutical and health care giant, has announced an agreement to buy Guidant, one of the largest US makers of devices to treat heart and circulatory illnesses, for $25.4 billion.
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Drug giant Johnson & Johnson agrees to buy Guidant Corp, a key player in the heart technology market, for $25.4bn.