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18/12/2008 07:08 pm
LONDON (MarketWatch) -- European shares started on a mixed note Thursday, as an advance for pharmaceutical firms such as Sanofi-Aventis , up up 1.7%, offset losses for miners including Rio Tinto, down 1.4%. Elsewhere, shares in Carrefour fell 7.9% after the French retail giant said that it's exp ...
21/11/2008 11:00 am
Reductions announced in pharmaceutical and paper sectors, while redundancies at BAE prompt row over defence policy British industry was hit by a further wave of job losses yesterday across the defence, aerospace and pharmaceutical sectors. The aero-engine maker Rolls-Royce said it was planning to re ...
19/11/2008 12:00 am
The launch this week of the Australian Sex Party ensures that censorship will be an almost unprecedented election issue in 2011 when the Rudd government goes to the polls. Censorship is not an issue that Australians have debated much, perhaps because most Australians are against it. More than 70 per ...
06/11/2008 04:06 am
AFP - British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline said Wednesday the group would axe 1,000 jobs or 12 percent of its sales workforce in the United States. ...
23/10/2008 05:31 am
NEW YORK (AFP) - US pharmaceutical giant Merck announced Wednesday it would cut its worldwide workforce by 7,200 jobs by 2011 as third-quarter net profit plunged 28 percent. ...
27/06/2008 02:45 pm
He's a merciless competitor, a shameless "fan" of other people's ideas and an unapologetic monopolist. And because of all that, Bill Gates has done more to create the thriving computer industry than anybody else. As Gates prepares to retire from full-time work at Microsoft July 1, ...
27/06/2008 02:45 pm
He's a merciless competitor, a shameless "fan" of other people's ideas and an unapologetic monopolist. And because of all that, Bill Gates has done more to create the thriving computer industry than anybody else. As Gates prepares to retire from full-time work at Microsoft July 1, ...
09/06/2008 09:24 pm
AFP - French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis said on Monday it planned to cut about a third of its sales representatives in France, or 700-800 jobs. ...
06/05/2008 08:08 am
Pharmaceutical company to eliminate another 1,200 US sales jobs. 6 May 2008 8:08 AM ...
07/11/2007 07:30 am
FRANKFURT (AFP) - The German chemicals and pharmaceutical group Bayer said Tuesday that it could cut up to 1,500 jobs at its plastics unit, equal to about 10 percent of the division's total workforce. ...
07/09/2007 10:53 am
US stocks rose overnight, led by industrial and pharmaceutical shares, as investors turned defensive ahead of jobs data. ...
28/07/2007 01:05 am
THE Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical group AstraZeneca is to cut 7600 jobs in an expanded cost-reduction program, after a fall in second-quarter profits as a result of restructuring and acquisition expenses. ...
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