Business Planning
Avantor™ Performance Materials (formerly Mallinckrodt Baker) announced today that its Mallinckrodt® Chemicals product brand name has officially changed and will now be referred to as Macron™ Chemicals.
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Graham Partners has acquired SP Industries, a leading designer and manufacturer of medical equipment and components used in pharmaceutical development and production. SP's two primary product categories include laboratory and pharmaceutical...
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Public and private research and development collaborations in agriculture, food, nutrition and natural resources are an important tool for meeting the challenge of feeding future generations.
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"After a year of caution and conservatism, many lab managers, regardless of whether they are optimistic or pessimistic about the future, seem to believe that it is time to sink or swim and will therefore be taking an aggressive approach in 2010."
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Our third annual confidence survey reveals that survey participants—ranging from technicians to corporate management—believe their research organizations will be just slightly better off financially than they were a year ago and that business conditions in their market sectors will somewhat improve to support or attract significant research investments.
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The Searle Funds at The Chicago Community Trust has renewed its funding commitment to the Chicago Biomedical Consortium, a collaboration of Northwestern University, the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Chicago.
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Danaher Corporation (NYSE:DHR) announced today that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with Beckman Coulter, Inc. (NYSE: BEC) pursuant to which Danaher will acquire Beckman Coulter by making a cash tender offer to acquire all of the..
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By using metrics effectively, laboratory managers can better focus their R&D efforts and be more effective in improving their firms' sales and profitability. This is essential, now more than ever, given the slow recovery from the "Great Recession."
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Listening to President Obama's State of the Union speech last night prompted me to think about leadership and laboratory management. I found his theme of support for American innovation encouraging but without offering specifics. "The first
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The Laboratory Products Association has announced the release of its 2011 North American Survey of Laboratory Purchasing Trends.
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Intertek, a leading provider of quality and safety solutions, has acquired American Analytical Chemistry Laboratories Corp (AACL), a testing, analytics and research company focusing on food, cosmeceuticals and pharmaceuticals.
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“Maximizing profits” and “competing for market share” are not typical phrases most people associate with laboratories. Right? Well, maybe they should be.
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