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Eisai to cut 900 jobs ahead of Aricept patent loss
March 7, 2011Sales and Marketing Aricept, Eisai, donepezil, generics, job cuts
Eisai is to cut around 900 jobs in Europe, the US and Japan over the next five years as it …
Universities to ‘pick up pharma’s R&D mantle’ after Pfizer closure
March 3, 2011Research and Development Kent, Pfizer, Sandwich, Science and Technology Select Committee, UK research, UK science, job cuts
Science in the UK will have to focus on contractually-based research in the future as pharma’s R&D presence in the …
Pfizer in break up talks for Sandwich research site
March 1, 2011Research and Development Kent, Pfizer, Sandwich, job cuts
Pfizer is in confidential talks over the future of its Sandwich, Kent research facility that could see the site broken …
Quality problems lead to short-term layoffs at Baxter Ireland
February 22, 2011Manufacturing and Production Dianeal, Extraneal, Ireland, Nutrineal, baxter, job cuts, manufacturing compliance, peritoneal dialysis
A contaminated production line at a facility in Ireland operated by Baxter Healthcare has resulted in 150 staff being laid …
West Pharma cuts staff as profits are pressured
December 13, 2010Manufacturing and Production West Pharma, drug delivery systems, job cuts, pharma packaging, pharmaceutical manufacturing, plastic packaging
West Pharmaceutical Services has taken the axe to its manufacturing facilities in the US and UK in order to cut …
Novartis to cut 1,400 US sales jobs
December 2, 2010Sales and Marketing Novartis, Novartis Pharma North America, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, job cuts, sales representatives
Novartis has outlined a major restructure of its US field force of sales reps that will see 1,400 positions cut …
NicOx to halve HQ workforce
November 4, 2010Research and Development, Sales and Marketing NicOx, job cuts, naproxcinod, pharma jobs
French pharmaceutical company NicOx is to halve the workforce at its Sophia Antipolis headquarters and is considering restructuring its Italian …
Biogen set to axe 650 jobs and focus on neurology
November 4, 2010Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Biogen, Rituxan, job cuts, pharma jobs
Biogen Idec is set to cut hundreds of jobs and refocus its R&D in an effort to cut costs by …
Staff blockade Sanofi-Aventis facility in France
October 21, 2010Manufacturing and Production France, Sanofi, Sanofi-Aventis, job cuts, manufacturing and production
Workers at a Sanofi-Aventis manufacturing facility in Romainville, France, sealed off the gates of the plant to protest plans to …
Sanofi slashes US workforce
October 11, 2010Sales and Marketing Sanofi-Aventis, job cuts
Sanofi-Aventis is to cut a quarter of its workforce in the US – making 1,700 people redundant – as it …
GlaxoSmithKline review leads to 121 layoffs in Cork
October 7, 2010Manufacturing and Production GlaxoSmithKline, Ireland, job cuts
GlaxoSmithKline has completed its review of a manufacturing facility in Ireland and concluded that it will have to shed 121 …
GSK workers in Ireland await review
September 20, 2010Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development GlaxoSmithKline, Ireland, job cuts
Workers at a GlaxoSmithKline facility in Ireland are anxiously awaiting the outcome of an official review of the operation amid …
Genzyme planning 1,000 job cuts
September 14, 2010Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development, Sales and Marketing Genzyme, job cuts
Genzyme has said it intends to cut back its workforce by around 1,000 over the next 15 months in order …
Merck plans jobs cuts in Ireland
September 10, 2010Manufacturing and Production Ireland, Merck & Co, Schering-Plough, job cuts
A manufacturing plant in Ireland is the latest to face staff cuts in the wake of Merck & Co’s merger …
Merck averts day in court over Dutch plant closure
September 7, 2010Manufacturing and Production, Research and Development Merck & Co, Netherlands, job cuts
Merck & Co has postponed the planned closure of the former Organon facility in Oss, the Netherlands, after weeks of …
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