Those of you receiving ePT-the Electronic Newsletter of Pharmaceutical Technology, will have read today the article “Merck Announces Major Restructuring Plan”. This is another example of the corporate news statement that defines the industry’s current direction.
Merck is always on …
June 14, 2010. According to The Independent, investors on the hunt for international opportunities need look no further than Kurdistan, the semi-autonomous region in the north east corner of Iraq. So delegates will be told at the country’s two-day trade and investment conference in London this week.
Some 400 people are …
The UK’s conservative/liberal democrat government, which has now been in place for just over two weeks, will announce today the first measures to sort out the country’s huge public sector deficit.
Finance minister George Osborne has already confirmed what …
May 9, 2010 – Corus has hired Citigroup, the American investment bank, to sell its mothballed steel mill on Teesside, raising hopes that more than 2,000 jobs can be saved.
The steelmaker, which is owned by Tata of India and includes what was British Steel, is understood to be in negotiations …
It’s become a real cliché these days to say that “Change is the only constant”. But this is not a new revelation. As long ago as 500 years BC Heraclitus noted that, like the water in a river, everything is in …
Infrastructure Development Opportunities Emerge from the Downturn in the Gulf
Amidst the celebratory fireworks at the launch of Dubai’s 1,500 room Hotel Atlantis in November, there were less than celebratory murmurings about the state of the countries economy, …
… If PFI Projects are to Proceed in the UK.
As reported in an earlier paper (see August and November 2008 blogs), many building projects under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) in the UK, in which the private sector and their bankers develop and fund major infrastructure projects and …
It’s doom and gloom everywhere – no need to say more. But is there a silver lining for some IPAs, I wonder?
We’re used to seeing assembly jobs relentlessly moving to the latest and cheapest labour entrant to the EU. Once the years of euphoria that take farmers out of the …
Well, way back
in December the economic downturn was predicted to bottom out towards the end of 2009 link.
Since then the economic data has been even worse that expected. Normally a slowdown in mature economies means that GDP growth slows to 1%, from an historic regular level of …