To make the deal appealing to AHP, Amgen will have to pay quite a premium.
AHP's agribusiness division into the red, leading to layoffs and plans for a sale.
Monsanto Chairman Robert Shapiro and AHP Chief Executive John Stafford planned to serve as co-chairmen and co-CEOs.
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That leaves just two or three slots for ten second-stringers, including Novartis, Bristol-Myers, AmericanHome Products (ahp), AstraZeneca and Pharmacia.
Chesley might argue he was a sort of special-teams player, brought in to negotiate a better settlement with AHP.
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American Home Products (nyse: AHP - news - people) CEO John Stafford , 63, will step down.
Now an international team led by the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences believes Archaeopteryx (ahr-kee-AHP'-teh-rihx) should indeed be considered a bird.
Its collaboration with American Home (nyse: AHP - news - people) always included a deep pipeline of Alzhiemer's drugs.
The creature called Archaeopteryx (ahr-kee-AHP'-teh-rihx) was widely considered the earliest known bird.
American Home Products (nyse: AHP - news - people ) had signed up to co-develop the drug, which had just entered human trials.
Ms Baillie said her party welcomed the proposed National Delivery Plan for AHPs but in her amendment she expressed concern about reducing budgets and skills mix in the AHP sector.
Another reason the deal looks sour: Amgen will have to buy the 41% stake that American Home Products (nyse: AHP - news - people ) has in Immunex.
For instance, American Home Products (nyse: AHP - news - people) makes the Premarin family of estrogen supplements, the most prescribed drugs in the U.S., according to IMS Health.
The players include big drug companies like Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people), American Home Products (nyse: AHP - news - people) and Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people).
Amgen has gone through a lot of trouble to ink this deal, courting not only Seattle-based Immunex but also American Home Products (nyse: AHP - news - people ), which co-markets Enbrel and has a 41% stake in Immunex.
But that figure could go higher as a result of the lawsuit brought by hundreds of thousands of people seeking damages for heart problems associated with taking either of two diet drugs made by American Home Products ahp (nyse: ahp - news - people) in combination with another diet drug.
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