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• As Tax Breaks for Pfizer End, Jobs Disappear

  BNET - 2009-11-16

  As Pfizer PFE reorganizes after its merger with Wyeth, municipalities are finding that the tax deals they once struck to keep the drug giant in town are having short-term advantages at best and, at worst, no effect at all. Pfizer must make 19,500 layoffs across its empire to make the...

  Tags: Job, Merger, Pfizer Inc., Tax Break, Mergers & Acquisitions, Taxes, Free Trade, Personal Finance, Investment, Finance, Financial Planning, Jim Edwards

• In Pfizer-Wyeth Merger Suit, It's Capitalism v. Socialism

  BNET - 2009-08-25

  The suit filed by various pharmacies to block the Pfizer-Wyeth merger is worth reading if you want to put in context the sheer size of the merger. It also delineates a faux conflict between the forces of capitalism pharmacies and socialism drug companies. by Jim Edwards

  Tags: Wyeth, Capitalism, Merger, Pfizer Inc., Pharmacy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Jim Edwards

• Pfizer Q1 2009 Earnings Call Transcript

  Seeking Alpha - 2009-04-28

  Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Operator Instructions. And our first question comes from Catherine Arnold of Credit Suisse. Please proceed. Catherine Arnold - Credit Suisse Thanks very much. Good morning. Jeffrey Kindler Good morning. Catherine Arnold - Credit Suisse Good Morning. I wanted to ask you two things. One, could...

  Tags: Credit Suisse First Boston, Merger, Merger Agreement, Pfizer Inc., Call Transcript, Dividend, Earnings, Financial Planning, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Personal Finance, Finance, Investment, Seeking Alpha

• Pfizer Director Whose Stock Sold Ahead of Wyeth Merger: "I Sometimes Know Too Much''

  BNET - 2009-02-15

  What are we to make of the Bloomberg report that Pfizer director James Kilts sold $259,772 of his shares in the company around the same time Pfizer began negotations to acquire Wyeth? In acquisitions, the buying company's stock usually declines because its cash is being spent on...

  Tags: Wyeth, Merger, Pfizer Inc., Stock, Investment, Corporate Governance, Finance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jim Edwards

• Post Merger, Pfizer-Wyeth Might Be Structured Like J&J

  BNET - 2009-02-13

  When Pfizer and Wyeth complete their merger, the new company might look a bit like Johnson & Johnson: a collection of relatively small units working autonomously. That scenario emerged in a chat over a cup of tea that BNET had yesterday at Pfizer's New York HQ with...

  Tags: Wyeth, Merger, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer Inc., Merger Plan, Mergers & Acquisitions, Team Management, Investment, Finance, Management, Jim Edwards

• Will Pfizer-Wyeth Merger Force Chief Justice Roberts Off Preemption Case?

  BNET - 2009-02-09

  Lawyers for Wyeth have informed the US Supreme Court of the merger with Pfizer, in case the justices now have a conflicts in Wyeth v. Levine. Chief Justice John Roberts usually recuses himself in cases regarding Pfizer, according to the Mass Tort Litigation Blog. He owns Pfizer...

  Tags: Wyeth, Merger, Pfizer Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Jim Edwards

• Reaction to Pfizer-Wyeth: Employees Despair, Plot Rebellion; Analysts Shrug; PFE Stock Down 10%

  BNET - 2009-01-26

  Reaction to the Pfizer-Wyeth merger is ... mixed, to say the least. Pfizer employees think this will be Pharmacia/Warner-Lambert redux. Wall Street analysts are all over the place. Pfizer's stock has lost 10 percent of its value between the opening bell and lunchtime. Wyeth's...

  Tags: Wyeth, Merger, Pfizer Inc., Stock, Kindler, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment, Finance, Jim Edwards

• PFIZER INC - Final Results.

  - 2006-01-19

  Pfizer Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2005 Financial Results Reflect Operating and Financial Strength ...

  Tags: accounting, Company, income, merger, Pfizer Inc., revenue, sales, tax

• PFIZER INC - Merger Update.

  - 2005-09-12

  Pfizer Expects Acquisition of Vicuron Pharmaceuticals to Close on September 14, 2005 ...

  Tags: acquisition, Company, merger, Pfizer Inc.

• US authorities clear Sanofi takeover offer for Aventis

  - 2004-07-29

  WASHINGTON AFP ? US regulatory authorities conditionally agreed to accept the pending merger of French-German pharmaceutical group Aventis and its smaller French rival Sanofi-Synthelabo into the world's third-largest pharmaceutical group. The Federal Trade Commission agreed to the merger on the condition that the two companies give up key drug...

  Tags: Aventis, FINANCE, FTC, GlaxoSmithKline Plc., Investment, merger, Pfizer Inc., Sanofi