San Diego, CA 4/2/12; San Diego, CA 4/2/12; San Diego, CA 4/3/12; Basel, Switzerland 4/3/12; San Diego, CA 4/9/12; Basel, Switzerland 4/11/12; Basel, Switzerland 4/12/12—Roche announced on April 12 that it is maintaining its $51 per share unsolicited offer for Illumina (see IBO 3/31/12), despite the unanimous vote by Illumina’s Board to reject the offer. […]
Corning, NY 4/10/12; Franklin Lakes, NY 4/10/12—Corning has definitively agreed to acquire the majority of BD’s (Becton, Dickinson and Company) Discovery Labware unit for $730 million in cash. Corning Life Sciences will acquire four platforms: plastic consumables labware, liquid handling products, cell-based assays and cell cultureware, and ADME research. BD will maintain ownership of its […]
Brea, CA 3/29/12—Beckman Coulter Life Sciences has acquired Blue Ocean Biomedical for an undisclosed amount. Blue Ocean Biomedical manufactures reagents and automated flow cytometry systems with integrated automated sample preparation for routine clinical analyses. “The simplification of customer workflows will be dramatic,” said Scott Atkin, president of Beckman Coulter Life Sciences. “We’ll be able to […]
Company Announcements Anton Paar established new subsidiaries in Italy and Turkey in December 2011. Hach named VWR a local distributor for its laboratory products in Australia and New Zealand. Technology trading group Addtech Life Science acquired BioNordika in January. BioNordika markets reagents and instruments for biomedical research and has annual sales of around SEK 80 […]
Company Announcements Illumina named Laura Lauman vice president of Marketing in December 2011. She was formerly president of AB SCIEX. In January, Illumina appointed Marc Stapley senior vice president and CFO. Previously, he was senior vice president, Finance, at Pfizer. The Austin Business Journal reported in December 2011 that Thermo Fisher Scientific will hire 150 […]
Abbott Park, IL 3/2/12—STARLIMS Technologies, an Abbott business, has purchased several distribution partners, including French distributor Varilab, two Spanish businesses, a Dutch company, and its Israeli distribution partner. The company has also established STARLIMS Germany to provide direct support for German and Swiss customers. “With these acquisitions, we now have more than 100 experienced LIMS […]
Houston, TX 3/6/12—PAC, a Roper Industries–owned supplier of analytical and online process instrumentation, has acquired Cambridge Viscosity for an undisclosed amount. Cambridge Viscosity provides small-sample fluid viscosity measurement systems utilizing electromagnetic-based sensor technology. “With over 25 years of experience, Cambridge Viscosity has served the oil and gas, paint, ink and coating, pharmaceutical and chemical industries […]
London, UK 3/5/12—Abcam, a supplier of protein research tools, has agreed to acquire Epitomics for $155 million (net Epitomics’ $15 million in cash) in cash and stock. Epitomics provides rabbit monoclonal antibodies (RabMAbs) and has three units: Reagents, which develops and distributes antibodies for research applications; custom antibodies for research and diagnostic applications; and IVD […]
On February 27, Roche extended its unsolicited cash tender offer to acquire all outstanding shares of Illumina (see IBO 1/31/12, 2/15/12). According to Roche, 102,165 shares were tendered as of February 29. In response, Illumina stated: “The extension by Roche was expected. An extremely low number of shares have been tendered, consistent with our view—and […]
St. Louis, MO 2/24/12; Sheffield, UK 2/24/12; Sheffield, UK 2/24/12—Certara, a provider of drug discovery and development software and scientific consulting services, has acquired Simcyp for $32 million. Based in the UK, Simcyp supplies a modeling and simulation platform for predicting the fate of drugs in virtual populations. For its fiscal year ending July 2011, […]
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