BRC Global Standards – the world’s largest provider of safety and quality standards programmes for food and non-food manufacture, packaging, storage, and distribution – is pleased to announce a transfer of ownership which marks the next stage in its strategic transition from being a standards owner to a brand and consumer protection organisation with a […]

LGC expands its supply chain assurance offering, creating a new business unit within its Standards division to focus on this growing market BRC Global Standards’ activities are highly complementary to LGC’s existing capabilities in reference standards, proficiency testing and sports supplements supply chain assurance BRC Global Standards benefits from LGC’s global network to develop further […]

Malvern and PANalytical are pleased to announce that effective 1 January 2017 they will be merging their activities. Both companies are owned by parent company Spectris plc and are operating companies within the Materials Analysis segment of Spectris. Both companies are world leading suppliers of analytical instrumentation, PANalytical for X-ray instrumentation and software for the […]

KEY MOLECULAR IMAGING TECHNOLOGY POSITIONS BRUKER FOR GROWTH IN PRECLINICAL PET/MRI AND PET/SPECT/CT BILLERICA, Mass. — Bruker today announced that it has completed the acquisition of the preclinical PET imaging business of Oncovision, a leading provider of innovative medical imaging devices.  Bruker had previously announced an agreement to acquire this business in September 2016.  Financial terms were not disclosed. The […]

Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (“Mitsui”, Head Office: Tokyo, President and CEO: Tatsuo Yasunaga) has agreed to acquire shares in Panasonic Healthcare Holdings Co., Ltd. (“PHCHD”). Mitsui will invest 54.1 billion yen to acquire 22% of PHCHD shares from PHCHD’s largest shareholder, funds managed by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (together with its affiliates, “KKR”). […]

Deal underscores Mitsui’s long-term commitment to company alongside partners KKR and Panasonic TOKYO – Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (“Mitsui”), one of Japan’s largest diversified corporations, and global investment firm KKR today announced the signing of a definitive share purchase agreement for Panasonic Healthcare Holdings (“PHCHD” or “Panasonic Healthcare”), a global provider of healthcare devices. Under […]

LGC, the international life sciences and measurement company, has announced that it has acquired Prime Synthesis, Inc. (PSI), the leading producer of Controlled Pore Glass (CPG) supports for oligonucleotide synthesis. Complementing LGC’s existing genomics offering, PSI’s products are supplied to the pharma and biopharma, academic research, CMOs, medical diagnostics and biochemical reagents markets. The combination of the […]

BEST EMERGES AS GLOBAL PORTFOLIO, PERFORMANCE AND QUALITY LEADER IN SUPERCONDUCTING MATERIALS BILLERICA, Mass. and TUBNEY WOODS, England — Oxford Instruments plc (LON: OXIG) and Bruker Energy and Supercon Technologies, Inc. (BEST), a subsidiary of Bruker Corporation (NASDAQ: BRKR), today announced that they have closed the acquisition of Oxford Instruments Superconducting Wire LLC (OST), based in Carteret, New Jersey, by BEST for a total consideration of 17.5 […]

FREMONT, Calif. — WaferGen Bio-systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: WGBS), a publicly held genomics technology company (“WaferGen”), today announced that its stockholders have approved the adoption of the previously announced merger agreement by and among WaferGen, Takara Bio USA Holdings, Inc. (“Takara Bio”) and certain other parties thereto. “We are very pleased with the outcome of today’s […]

Worthing, United Kingdom – Seward Ltd, Seward Ltd, makers of Stomacher® laboratory blenders and Insterprep® sterile media, is pleased to announce that it has merged with its sister company, C-Tech Electronics Ltd, to form a new vertically integrated manufacturing company called FermionX Ltd.  There will be no change to Seward’s name; and its high standard of operations known and […]