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• Pharmed flatlines

  - 2007-12-01

  Pharmed Group Inc., a hospital supply company and supplement manufacturer owned by brothers Carlos and Jorge de Cespedes, recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Once one of the largest Hispanic-owned businesses in the United States, the company's filing shows it owes more than $60 million to companies such as...

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• Saint-Gobain to acquire Florida firm

  - 2007-02-01

  Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics SGPP, Aurora, Ohio-based subsidiary of Saint-Gobain of Paris, has agreed to acquire the assets of plastics manufacturer Consolidated Polymer Technologies CPT, based in Clearwater, Florida. SGPP plans to integrate CPT, which manufactures the C-Flex product line for medical and pharmaceutical customers, into its Healthcare business unit. The...

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• Pharmed Medicare plans to take on UK's Tate & Lyle.

  - 2006-03-29

  Byline: Bhanu Pande Mar. 29--NEW DELHI -- Bangalore-based pharma and nutraceutical firm, Pharmed Medicare wants to take on UK-based ingredient major, Tate & Lyle, which controls the world market for sugar substitutes. The Indian firm claims to have developed an alternative ...

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• Prescription for Success

  - 2006-02-01

  Politics make for strange bedfellows, but the old maxim applies in business, as well. Pharmed Group manufactures and distributes medical supplies in an industry dominated by multibillion-dollar players. But it also manufactures and distributes its competitors' products. Chairman and CEO Carlos de Cespedes wants to build a company that is...

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• An India-based company claims it has developed a sucralose that will break Tate & Lyle's lucrative monopoly in the sweetener

  - 2006-01-23

  An India-based company claims it has developed a sucralose that will break Tate & Lyle's lucrative monopoly in the sweetener. In an exclusive interview with FoodNavigator, the president of Pharmed Medicare says his company has developed an alternative patent-pending process, reviewed by legal counsel in the United States, Asia and...

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• Pharmed out.(ad spending by pharmaceutical industry)

  - 2005-09-05

  With drug marketers trying to kick the ad habit, TV is beginning to experience withdrawal symptoms. At least that's what appears to have happened by the midpoint of 2005, according to estimates released last week by ad tracker Nielsen Monitor-Plus. While overall ad spending by direct-to-consumer...

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• On-Line bioreactor Autosampler

  - 2005-09-01

  On-Line Autosampler, used in conjunction with BioProfile Chemistry Analyzers, can withstand multiple steam sterilization cycles. The unit incorporates stainless steel fittings and PharMed tubing, as well as modified versions of its cleaning and sampling valves and an improved sterile barrier manifold. All results are stored onboard, and can...

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• PODER-BCG Business Awards Winners Announced

  - 2004-12-16

  MIAMI -- The selection committee of the PODER-BCG Business Awards today announced the 2005 winners. This year's awardees include actor Andy Garcia, real estate developer Jorge Perez, Perry Ellis International chairman George Feldenkreis, and Carlos and Jorge de Cespedes, owners of medical supply company Pharmed. Andy Garcia will receive...

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• Miami-based medical supplies distributor donates $1 million to university.

  - 2004-08-19

  By Ina Paiva Cordle, The Miami Herald Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 19--In a gift that mirrors their dedication to education, love of sports and devotion to South Florida, Jorge and Carlos de Cespedes -- owners of the Miami-based Pharmed Group --...

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• Strategic Alliance: Jorge and Carlos de Cespedes, the founders of Miami-based medical supply company Pharmed, have a plan: to reach $1 billion in annual revenues in two years. Here's how they'll do it

  - 2004-06-01

  * "You take the combination of the wealthiest African-American person in America, plus two not-so-poor Cubans, but with 25 years of experience in the distribution business," says Jorge de Cespedes. "It makes a compelling story." [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] De Cespedes is referring to the recent deal cut by Pharmed,...

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