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Investment Insider: The heady days aren't over for drugs groups
Saturday 27 July 2013
Genetics, stem cells and consistent dividends can offset the problems of expiring patents
Simon Lowth moves from AstraZeneca to BG Group for less pay
Wednesday 17 July 2013
BG Group has poached Simon Lowth from AstraZeneca to be its finance director. Mr Lowth, who was interim chief executive of the drug maker last year, is taking a pay cut to move to the FTSE 100 oil and gas company.
Developers bet on Crossrail boom with West End investment
Friday 05 July 2013
Two of Britain’s top property groups are spending almost £700 million on West End developments, placing major bets on the success of Crossrail.
AstraZeneca’s £93m headache as it dumps another new drug
Tuesday 04 June 2013
Struggling AstraZeneca today faced yet another blow when it had to dump a new arthritis treatment because clinical trials showed patients were hit with side-effects including the common cold.
AstraZeneca buys fish-oils drug maker Omthera
Wednesday 29 May 2013
AstraZeneca is spending up to $443m (£293m) to buy a US heart-medicine business in an attempt to resuscitate the drug maker's dwindling pipeline of new products.
Unions fight Astra plans to move R&D base south
Monday 29 April 2013
Union leaders will meet executives at AstraZeneca today to try to convince Britain's second-biggest drugmaker to reverse plans to close its R&D site in Cheshire and move almost 2,000 jobs.
James Ashton: AGMs season can still put trouble on agenda
Saturday 27 April 2013
Like the first swallow of summer, Barclays’ shareholder meeting this week signified the beginning of the AGM season. But if signs of summer are upon us, what happened to this year’s shareholder spring?
Astra profits plunge by third
Thursday 25 April 2013
AstraZeneca’s new boss faced a double-headache today as pre-tax profit tumbled by more than a third to $1.3 billion (£840 million) in the first quarter and a pay revolt loomed at his first AGM.
Payout for Astra bosses may spark shareholder storm
Monday 15 April 2013
AstraZeneca could be heading for a pay storm at its upcoming AGM after the biggest grouping of public-sector pension funds were advised to vote down a remuneration plan that sees the drugmaker’s new chief executive pocket £6.5m after just three months’ work.
The Business Matrix: Wednesday 3 April 2013
Wednesday 03 April 2013
Newbury fails to get over hurdles
Investment View: Hold on to Astra as new chief cuts costs to do deals
Thursday 21 March 2013
If Mr Soriot does get it right the pay off could be very big. But keep a close watch on developments
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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