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Byline: Vince Galloro Healthcare services executives could be excused for wondering if their counterparts in pharmaceuticals are unaware that there's a recession. Last week, New York-based Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. announced [...]

Byline: RICH THOMASELLI pfizer is already the world's-largest drug maker, and its potential acquisition of Wyeth would return the pharma giant to what it was several years ago: an expansive [...]

SOLVAY Pharmaceuticals has bought back the production unit for its influcnza vaccine Influvac from American Home Products Manufacturing BV in Weesp, the Netherlands. In 1997 AHP's animal health unit Fort [...]

BASF's planned acquisition of American Cyanamid from American Home Products has been approved by the US Federal Trade Commission. BASF is acquiring American Cyanamid for $3.8 billion.

BASF is planning to carry out a reorganization of its crop protection operations after its acquisition of Cyanamid from American Home Products. BASF hopes to win approval for the purchase by July 2000.

AVENTIS PHARMACEUTICALS, the US pharmaceutical company of Aventis SA, is selling its office and laboratory complex in Collegeville, Pa, to American Home Products Corporation for an undisclosed amount. The 312-acre [...]

BASF will acquire American Home Products' (AHP) crop protection operations. BASF is acquiring the operations for approximately $3.8 billion.

The deal will strengthen BASF in agrochemicals and enable AHP to focus on drugs. BASF's $3.8 billion intended purchase of American Home Products Corporation's Cyanamid unit will narrow AHP's focus [...]

Focus NEW YORK -- The dust has finally settled in the three-month battle to determine the destiny of Warner-Lambert Co., with Pfizer Inc. emerging as the winner. The two, agreeing [...]

AMERICAN HOME Products Corporation is divesting its Cyanamid Agricultural Products business. AHP expects to complete the spinoff, which is being mediated by Morgan Stanley, by the end of the year. [...]

AFTER THREE weeks of merger discussions with Warner-Lambert Company and American Home Products Corporation, Procter & Gamble Co. terminated talks with the companies. The decision was announced on the same [...]

NEW YORK -- Pfizer Inc. has agreed to delay its push to replace Warner-Lambert Co.'s board of directors until a federal judge decides whether Pfizer's $73 billion hostile takeover bid [...]

BIOCHEMIE, the Austrian-based generic medicines subsidiary of Novartis, has agreed to acquire the penicillin businesses of American Home Products (AHP) in Mexico and 12 other Latin American countries. The takeover [...]

Faulding Laboratories has bought the Serax brand from American Home Products Corp. The capsules and tablets are used to treat [...]

NEW YORK -- The stakes are clear in the battle to determine which combination of drug companies will emerge -- for now at least -- as the world's largest pharmaceutical [...]

Will Pfizer become the conquering hero and win the Warner-Lambert takeover battle or suffer defeat as the jilted suitor in favor of American Home Products? That's the current question and [...]

IN ITS CONTINUING BID to win over Warner-Lambert Company, Pfizer Inc. is pursuing attempts to block the proposed merger between Warner-Lambert and American Home Products Corporation. In a meeting with [...]

NEW YORK -- Just hours after the announcement of American Home Products Corp.'s (AHP's) intention to merge with Warner-Lambert Co., the sudden emergence of another suitor, Pfizer Inc., ignited the [...]

Chase Manhattan Corp.'s co-advisory role to American Home Products Corp. in its $72 billion merger deal with Warner-Lambert Co. is one of countless examples of the banking company's ability to [...]

W-L plans to go ahead with the planned AHP merger. THE ANNOUNCED merger of US drug manufacturers Warner-Lambert and American Home Products Corporation is drawing praise from analysts, as most [...]

William C. Steere Jr. hardly looks like the kind of guy to spoil a wedding. But last week Steere, the dignified chairman of drug giant Pfizer, acted out one of [...]

Warner-Lambert Co.'s board of directors rejected a surprise $82.4 billion merger offer from Pfizer Inc. in favor of the $72 billion deal it had already agreed to with American Home [...]

IN A BID TO BECOME the world's leading pharmaceutical company, N.J.-based drug manufacturers Warner-Lambert and American Home Products Corporation have announced a definitive agreement to merge in a deal worth [...]

'ONCE is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time is enemy action.' Although American Home Products (AHP) is hardly famous for its derring-do in the world of drug making, it [...]

RUMORS TEAT Glaxo Wellcome PLC is interested in merging with American Home Products spurred AHP's stock price last week. Analysts are skeptical of the rumored deal, which would be valued [...]

Forecasts and trends in the global pharmaceutical industry for the year 2010 are discussed. AstraZeneca has acquired Novexel for up to $505 million. Pfizer, on the other hand, has purchased Wyeth while reducing its drug development portfolio.

Pfizer agreed to acquire Wyeth for $65 billion in late January 2009 in a deal that will be financed through debt, cash and stock. Caris & Company's research director David Moskowitz says that the transaction may trigger a wave of mergers and acquisitions in the pharmaceutical sector. Forecasts on consolidation in other industries are also given.