St. Louis, MO 12/30/10—Sigma-Aldrich has acquired all of the outstanding shares of Cerilliant from Argenta Partners for an undisclosed amount. Based in Round Rock, Texas, with 65 employees, Cerilliant provides high quality reference standards and materials for the clinical diagnostics, environmental, nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, forensic and clinical toxicology markets. Sigma-Aldrich stated that the acquisition would complement […]
New York, NY 12/20/10—Bloomberg has reported that Danaher and Thermo Fisher Scientific are among the companies bidding to acquire Beckman Coulter (see IBO 12/15/10), according to three people familiar with the situation. Other companies that may bid include private equity firms KKR & Co., Bain Capital, Apollo Global Management and Blackstone Group. Private equity firms […]
A new US food safety bill signed into law this month will increase FDA authority over the US food supply and increase the application of scientific standards to food safety. The Food Safety Modernization Act is the country’s first major food legislation since 1938. The Act is expected to be signed by President Obama early […]
In 2010, the US economy and equity markets sustained a strong recovery in the wake of the financial collapse two years ago. Following double-digit gains in 2009, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 and NASDAQ added 11.0%, 12.8% and 16.9% in 2010, respectively. Equity prices benefited from monetary stimulus, improving macroeconomic data, strong corporate […]
Digital PCR (dPCR) extends traditional PCR into the realm of real-time quantitative PCR. It is a method used to directly quantify and clonally amplify nucleic acids. It is an accurate and sensitive technique that counts individual nucleic acid molecules for applications such as detection of rare mutations and quantifying viral load, gDNA, cDNA, plasmids or […]
Due to the IBO’s January 15 forecast issue, third-quarter results for the Lab Equipment/Consumables Sales Index are included in this issue. Index sales grew 2.7%, 3.6% excluding currency, to $3,760.20 million. Operating profits improved 3.2% to $631.67 million, and adjusted operating margins were unchanged at 17.2% of sales. For the fiscal first quarter ending October […]
PerkinElmer has announced that it does not plan to exhibit at Pittcon 2011, which will be held in Atlanta, Georgia. It becomes the second major chemical analysis instrument company to pull out of the exhibit. Bruker did not exhibit at Pittcon 2010 (see IBO 3/15/10), but will exhibit at Pittcon 2011. The news is in […]
As detailed in the November 15 issue of IBO, an annual review by the EU showed that spending by 1,000 of the world’s largest publicly held companies that engage in substantial R&D activities declined last fiscal year. This month, the UK released its annual R&D spending review, which provided further evidence of the trends documented […]
Company Announcements AB SCIEX announced a joint technology development project with the University of Melbourne to improve drug metabolism studies of biopharmaceuticals. The project is focused on developing a standardized testing methodology based on the QTRAP 5500 and TripleTOF 5600. In November, AB SCIEX formed a direct sales organization in Korea. Former distributor Life Science […]
Company Announcements Dani and JEOL (Europe) BV announced an exclusive distribution agreement or the Benelux for their respective Master-TOF MS and JMST100GCv. INFICON’s third-quarter Emergency Response & Security sales declined 43% to CHF 4.3 million ($4.2 million) due to lower North American sales. Third-quarter revenue for the Agilent Micro GC business (see IBO 3/31/10) was […]
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