US-based privately-held therapeutic antibody firm AnaptysBio has commenced an antibody development program with Momenta Pharmaceuticals, focused on the development of new antibodies against a therapeutically relevant target. Both the ...
Ageing infrastructure is a major problem for almost every power utility in the developed world, and it's a problem that becomes particularly acute when the original manufacturer gives notice that support will soon be withdrawn for an asset ...
Biodel, a specialty pharmaceutical company, has announced a long-term supply agreement with Becton, Dickinson and Company, a medical technology company, for worldwide exclusive rights to the novel and proprietary BD Uniject SCF disposable ...
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BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany, and American technology provider Renmatix Inc. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, will jointly scale up the Renmatix Plantrose process for the production of industrial sugars based on lignocellulosic biomass. The ...
Swiss agrochemicals company Syngenta has agreed to offload its Dulcinea Farms business to Pacific Trellis Fruit, an American grower and marketer of fresh produce. Formed in partnership with Tanimura & Antle, Dulcinea Farms is a vehicle ...
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Safelite Group of Columbus is buying part of a Michigan company, adding to Safelite’s status as the largest player in the vehicle-glass business. The Northwest Side company said yesterday that it has reached an agreement to buy the ...
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State-owned PetroChina announced Thursday its acquisition of a 25% stake in the West Qurna 1 block in southern Iraq from ExxonMobil. In a brief statement, PetroChina said it "makes formal delivery ... for the acquisition" in the technical ...
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Transgenomic, a global biotechnology company, and US-based PerkinElmer have entered into a collaboration agreement for marketing and distributing Transgenomic’s line of molecular diagnostic oncology products in territories outside the ...
RNB RETAIL AND BRANDS AB has entered into an agreement to sell the subsidiary JC to Denim Island AB. Denim Island AB is a part of Denim Island Group owned by Gordon Wu. The buyer Denim Island Group is a leading producer of denim products as ...
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BT has signed a multi-million pound contract with Oracle, for the technology giant's human capital management (HCM) software suite. The exact financial terms were not disclosed. Further reading Rural broadband rollout slammed for ...
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Arbor Investments, a US-based private equity firm, has completed recapitalization of PBF Pita Bread Factory. Headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia, PBF is a manufacturer and marketer of frozen baked goods. It supplies baked goods to ...
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Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), a national milk marketing cooperative, is set to merge with Dairylea Cooperative, in a move to expand its presence across the northeast. Dairylea Cooperative, an agricultural marketing and service company, ...
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South Africa's financial services group Sanlam Emerging Markets (SEM) in engaged in negotiations with Nico Holdings, to acquire 49% stake in the general insurance operations in Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. Financial terms of the ...
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Quest Diagnostics, a provider of diagnostic information services, has acquired ConVerge Diagnostic Services, a full-service laboratory providing clinical, cytology and anatomic pathology testing services to patients, physicians and ...
IBM is to acquire Dublin-based analytics software provider The Now Factory. Financial terms were not disclosed. Further reading IBM to splash $1bn on Linux for cloud computing and big data US government agency selects IBM in 10 year ...
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