Pfizer Inc.

pfizer inc. - All News and Analysis

• Dell Shifts Manufacturing From Ireland to Poland

  ReutersUK - 2009-01-08

  By Andras GergelyDUBLIN (Reuters UK) - Dell DELL, the world's No. 2 PC maker, is shifting its European manufacturing base from Ireland to Poland and cutting 1,900 of 3,000 jobs at its Limerick plant in a bleak start to the year for the shrinking Irish economy.Dell, which ranks itself as...

  Tags: Ireland, Dell Computer Corp., Limerick, Manufacturing, Bausch & Lomb Inc., Google Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp., Pfizer Inc.

• Rigel Still on Track, And Has Pfizer Found Its Next Blockbuster?

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-01-08

  Ohad Hammer submits: In the pharmaceutical industry, 2008 will probably be marked by the big pharmas’ insatiable appetite for new drugs. Threatened by fierce generic competition, the pharmaceutical giants were not only eager to pay generous acquisition premiums for marketed products, but were also willing to pay a lot of...

  Tags: Biotech, Healthcare, Ohad Hammer, Pfizer Inc., Rigel Pharmaceuticals Inc.

• Pharma Roundup: Pfizer's Lipitor Patent, Wyeth and Crucell, and More

  BNET - 2009-01-07

  Court re-validates Pfizer's Lipitor patent; Wyeth wants to buy Crucell; new spin-off Facet cuts jobs; Merckle family to sell Ratiopharm. by John Maas

  Tags: Wyeth, Patent, Pfizer Inc., Crucell, John Maas

• The Pfizer-Shire Deal Worst-Case Scenario

  BNET - 2009-01-07

  Earlier this week shares of Shire rose on rumors that Pfizer may be interested in acquiring the company, which is best-known for its ADHD drug Adderall XR. The notion that Pfizer is in acquisition mode has been driving people crazy for days. (See BNET's coverage of Pfizer Pfever here.) ...

  Tags: Patient, Medicaid, Pfizer Inc., Generic, Shire, ADHD, Vyvanse, Barr, Cola, Healthcare, Jim Edwards

• Why I Pick on Pfizer

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-01-07

  Derek Lowe submits: I get occasional comments and e-mails asking why I’m so hard on Pfizer PFE. It’s not that I have anything personal against the company – I’ve never worked there, and they’ve never turned me down for a job. And I have a lot of friends there...

  Tags: Biotech, Derek Lowe, Pfizer Inc.

• Pfizer's Big Acquisition ... Is a Tiny Rights Deal With Cytos

  BNET - 2009-01-06

  The world continues to fuliminate over the notion that Pfizer is poised to make a big deal. Could it be Amgen? Could it be Bristol-Myers Squibb? The speculation reached a new height of ridiculousness with this column in Today's Financial News, "Pfizer shouts its message to the...

  Tags: Acquisition, Pfizer Inc., Research & Development, Investment, Mergers & Acquisitions, Healthcare, Operational Accounting, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Finance, Jim Edwards

• List of 56 Drugs That Should Not Be Mixed With Viagra Contains Some Surprises

  BNET - 2009-01-06

  Public Citizen has published a list of 56 drugs that interact badly with erectile dysfunction pills such as Pfizer's Viagra. Public Citizen's WorstPills.com site reports: In combination with ED drugs, these 56 drugs can cause dangerous falls in blood pressure that could lead to a heart attack or stroke;...

  Tags: Blood Pressure, Pfizer Inc., Drug, Viagra, Healthcare, Jim Edwards

• Pharma Roundup: Pfizer's Acquisition Plans, Prasugrel's Big Day, and More

  BNET - 2009-01-05

  Pfizer wants acquisitions, big and small. Prasugrel has a date with the FDA. New Year's blog feature bonanza. Farewell, Pharmalot. by John Maas

  Tags: Acquisition, Pfizer Inc., Pharmaceutical Company, Lilly, Pharmalot, John Maas

• Starved of News, Press Speculates on Deals for Abbott, Pfizer and Wyeth

  BNET - 2009-01-05

  New Year is a slow news period, which is why the business press filled up with next-to-useless coporate strategy stories about Abbott Labs, Wyeth and Pfizer. The one thing these stories all have in common? They're long on speculation and short on substance. Let's take them one at a time....

  Tags: Wyeth, Abbott Laboratories Inc., Pfizer Inc., Pharmaceutical Company, Health Care, Mahady, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Jim Edwards

• Is Pfizer Now Interested in a Merger?

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-01-05

  Mike Huckman submits: AP The "Financial Times" apparently got a one-on-one interview with Pfizer PFE Chairman and CEO Jeff Kindler and is playing up what he said with the headline, "Pfizer eyes merger deal with large rival." That conclusion is based on this quote: "We are open to opportunities and...

  Tags: Healthcare, Mike Huckman, Pfizer Inc.

• Pfizer Chief Open to Acquisitions: Report

  Reuters - 2009-01-05

  (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc PFE, the world's biggest pharmaceutical group, is open to acquisitions, its chief executive Jeff Kindler told the Financial Times in an interview."The real goal is to grow revenues ... We are open to opportunities and constantly looking at those which are big, small and in-between," Kindler...

  Tags: Acquisition, Pfizer Inc., Cholesterol, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Business Operations

• Let Them Eat Sushi! 14,000 Layoffs, But Pfizer Lobbyist Dines on $15 Raw Fish Rolls

  BNET - 2008-12-30

  Pfizer has laid off 14,000 people over the last two years, doubtless causing some folks to cut back on discretionary expenses. But Pfizer lobbyist Donna Kaylor is still eating $15 sushi rolls in Sacramento, Calif. Kaylor got herself named in the Sacramento News & Review's restaurant section when she accompanied...

  Tags: Layoff, Pfizer Inc., Performance Management, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Jim Edwards

• Pfizer: A Case Study of the Market's Extremely Low Valuations

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-12-30

  Eddy Elfenbein submits: I want to show you the dramatic collapse in stock valuations by taking a close look at Pfizer PFE, the drug company. I’m not recommending the shares to own, I simply want to show you how extreme the market’s judgments have become. On Monday, shares of...

  Tags: US Market, Eddy Elfenbein, Pfizer Inc.

• Pfizer Trovan Case: Doctor Sues Over Link to Nigerian Attorney General Who Allegedly Wants Slice of Settlement

  BNET - 2008-12-30

  A Texas doctor helping the Nigerian government in its claim against Pfizer in the Trovan drug testing case has sued an African investigative reporting website, SaharaReporters, for $25 million, according to Black Star News. SaharaReporters had written that the doctor was a cousin of Nigeria's attorney general and that the...

  Tags: Texas, Pfizer Inc., Settlement, Attorney General, Government, Litigation, Vertical Industries, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Jim Edwards

• The 10 Weirdest Drug Stories of the Month

  BNET - 2008-12-26

  It's the last weekend of the month and, per tradition, BNET brings you its weirdest drug stories of December 2008 -- all the news that was too minor to mention at the time, but too strange to go unnoted. Doc lets Botox prices fall and rise with...

  Tags: Pfizer Inc., Novartis AG, CEO, November, Gender And Diversity, Mortgages, Team Management, Telecom & Utilities, Data Centers, Human Resources, Finance, Capital Structures, Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Jim Edwards

• Pfizer Gives Sangamo a Vote of Confidence

  Seeking Alpha - 2008-12-22

  Sangamo SGMO announced today it received an upfront payment of $3M from Pfizer PFE in exchange for a world-wide, perpetual, non-exclusive license for the use of certain ZFP Nuclease (ZFN) reagents to permanently eliminate the Glutamine Synthetase (GS) gene in Chinese Hamster ovary CHO cell lines. Shares are...

  Tags: Biotech, SA Editor Eli Hoffmann, Pfizer Inc., Sangamo BioSciences Inc.

• S&P Says GE Triple-A Could Be at Risk

  Reuters - 2008-12-18

  By Scott Malone and Karen BrettellBOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's lowered its outlook on General Electric Co GE to "negative" on Thursday, meaning it believes there is a one-in-three chance the U.S. conglomerate could lose its coveted "AAA" rating over the next two years.The ratings agency upheld its...

  Tags: S&P, General Electric Co., Finance Business, Automatic Data Processing Inc., Exxon Mobil Corp., Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft Corp., Pfizer Inc.

• Pfizer to Sell Penis-Straightening Drug

  BNET - 2008-12-18

  Pfizer, the maker of Viagra, has struck a deal to sell Xiaflex, a drug that cures curvature of the penis ... There's just one drawback to Xiaflex -- it's administered by injection. by Jim Edwards

  Tags: Pfizer Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales, Jim Edwards

• The Pfizer-Amgen Deal Worst-Case Scenario

  BNET - 2008-12-17

  Deutsche Bank analyst Barbara Ryan has again gone public with her desire to see Pfizer get off its pile of cash and make a dramatic mega-buy that would solve its pipeline hole. This time she thinks Amgen ought to be the target. BNET readers have been down this road before....

  Tags: Amgen Inc., Pfizer Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Jim Edwards

• Pfizer Donated to Senators Who Supported H-1B Visa Expansion

  BNET - 2008-12-15

  Pfizer donated tens of thousands of dollars to Sens. Chris Dodd and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, and those senators supported an expansion of the H-1B visa program that allows foreign workers to be  brought to the US to do technical jobs, according to New London's The Day. Coincidentally, Pfizer has...

  Tags: H-1B Visa, Pfizer Inc., H-1B, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Jim Edwards

• Incorporated: 1942
• CEO: Mr. Jeffrey B. Kindler