Pfizer
Pfizer to buy pain drug company King Pharma for $3.6 billion
12 Oct 2010
King develops, manufactures and markets therapies and technologies in specialty-driven markets, including neuroscience, hospital and acute care medicines.
Pfizer to acquire FoldRx Pharmaceuticalsing
01 Sep 2010
Pfizer to close eight plants, shed 6,000 jobs worldwide
18 May 2010
After the merger with Wyeth, drug giant Pfizer plans to reconfigure its worldwide plant network.
Pfizer in bid to snap up Germany’s Ratiopharm
04 Mar 2010
The acqusuition, estimated at about $4.1 billion, will be the biggest generic company buyout since Teva bought Barr Pharmaceuticals for $7.4 billion in July 2008
Pfizer to market 40 Strides Arcolab generic drugs in the US
07 Jan 2010
The world's largest drugmaker, Pfizer has struck a collaboration deal yesterday to sell 40 generic drugs manufactured by Strides Arcolab of India to expand the its generics business in the US
Pfizer inks $115 million deal with Israel’s Protalix for treatment of Gaucher’s disease
02 Dec 2009
Both Pfizer and Protalix will share future revenues and expenditure related to the development and commercialisation of the drug taliglucerase alfa, on a 60:40 basis respectively.
Pfizer to slash R&D facilities post Wyeth merger
11 Nov 2009
Pfizer unit fined record $1.3 billion for drug misbranding
19 Oct 2009
Pfizer subsidiary Pharmacia & Upjohn Co, has been sentenced to pay a record fine of $1.3 billion by the US Department of Justice for illegal marketing of medicines including painkiller Bextra
Pfizer completes Wyeth acquisition
16 Oct 2009
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