Among them a pharmaceuticals company, a dating service and a clothing line for babies.
Kalbe Farma is now the largest publicly listed pharmaceuticals company in Southeast Asia by sales.
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His mission is to make investors see Serono not as an old-economy pharmaceuticals company, but rather as a global biotechnology dynamo.
Since then, Bris has consolidated the business: he bought back 19.3% of Yves Rocher from French pharmaceuticals company Sanofi in 2012.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb, a big pharmaceuticals company, also certified its results with caveats.
Schering, a German pharmaceuticals company, is hoping to get approval for a contrast agent whose bubbles, under a correctly tuned ultrasonic beam, will oscillate and eventually rupture.
In 2011, the pharmaceuticals company bought Ferrosan Consumer Health, a Danish company that sells dietary supplements mainly in the emerging markets of Russia and Central and Eastern Europe.
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Professor Bird and his colleague, Professor Alan Clarke of Cardiff University, are currently in talks with an unnamed pharmaceuticals company about developing a drug which would attack MBD2 cells.
Hence Coca-Cola can peddle the same sugary syrup for decades, but an oil company has to keep discovering new fields and a pharmaceuticals company must keep refilling its drugs pipeline.
He gave evidence to the Science and Technology Committee on 2 March 2011, where he said he would push the pharmaceuticals company to ensure continuing employment in the East Kent area.
Merck is the world's oldest pharmaceuticals company.
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Medical devices and pharmaceuticals are the company's two main platforms for extending its business as it moves forward.
Cynthia Kenyon, a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco, and a co-founder of Elixir Pharmaceuticals, another company looking into anti-ageing drugs, believes that molecules such as resveratrol are likely to be approved in the next five to ten years, for use as prophylactics against age-related diseases.
Specialty pharmaceutical company Endo Pharmaceuticals rose 13% on hopes for its pain drug, Opana.
Insert, a subsidiary of Arrowhead Research, is developing the delivery vehicle to carry the RNAi technology of Calandro Pharmaceuticals, another Arrowhead company.
"Any foreign company in pharmaceuticals, if they want to come to China, if they want a partner, we will be partners, " he says.
This connection to patients and research centres is vital for small biotech firms, says Julian Adams, chief scientific officer of Infinity Pharmaceuticals, a cancer company.
One drug Glaxo is testing in early human trials is licensed from biotech company Anacor Pharmaceuticals and uses a new type of chemistry based on the element boron.
Doctors from the University of California and University of Utah have carried out a small trial of 13 women on the product, made by the company Balance Pharmaceuticals.
In another case, when Glaxo didn't have the expertise in-house, it created biotech company Tempero Pharmaceuticals to push forward science for treating autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and psoriasis.
Charles Pharmaceuticals, a fledgling company in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Insert, a subsidiary of Arrowhead Research (nasdaq: ARWR - news - people ), is developing the delivery vehicle to carry the RNAi technology of Calandro Pharmaceuticals, another Arrowhead company.
Now, Alkermes' bid to acquire Reliant Pharmaceuticals , a drug marketing company, could be in serious danger.
One stock is a company called Questcor Pharmaceuticals ( QCOR), which makes central nervous system drugs.
It persuaded one company, Semafore Pharmaceuticals, to test a drug in myeloma by offering it access to the network.
Adams got the job he wanted at a then two-year-old biotech company called Infinity Pharmaceuticals, not far from Millennium's offices in Cambridge, Mass.
Adams got the job he wanted at a then two-year-old biotech company called Infinity Pharmaceuticals, not far from Millennium's offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
O. of Synta Pharmaceuticals, a small biotechnology company located outside Boston.
Lovaza was launched in the U.S. in 2004 under the brand name Omacor by Reliant Pharmaceuticals, a specialty drug company linked to the billionaire Pritzker clan.
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Not everyone is convinced, but Dr Sinclair has done experiments on mice that look promising, and has started a company called Sirtris Pharmaceuticals to follow it up.
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