[Odette van der Haar] The requirements of the new
'food labelling' legislation, which became effective on 1 March 2012, presents an enormous opportunity for the advertising profession.
15 May 2012 09:12Pharmaceutical manufacturer Adcock Ingram on Thursday, 3 May 2012, opened its newly upgraded Critical Care Factory in Aeroton, Gauteng, after spending R300 million on improving the facility.
4 May 2012 15:37
[Bill Hathaway] GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Yale University will partner to design a new class of molecules to target disease-causing proteins. This is the latest in a string of deals between Yale's academic researchers and global pharmaceutical companies.
2 May 2012 11:29NEW YORK, USA: US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is close to reaching a US$9 billion deal to sell its infant nutrition business to Nestle, according to the
Wall Street Journal.
18 Apr 2012 16:39[Tamar Kahn] SA's biggest drug manufacturer, Aspen Pharmacare, on Friday welcomed the announcement by Trade and Industry Minister Rob Davies that the pharmaceuticals sector had been designated as one in which the government would purchase selected products exclusively from domestic manufacturers.
17 Apr 2012 08:35 The SA pharmaceutical industry has not only weathered adversity in an unfavourable local trading environment, but is extending its reach to the rest of the continent.
16 Apr 2012 17:02
[Tamar Kahn] The National Association of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers on Monday complained it had been sidelined by the Department of Trade and Industry as it drew up plans for preferential procurement for domestic medicine makers.
11 Apr 2012 07:29The Biovac Institute will be partnering with multi-national pharmaceutical company, Sanofi Pasteur, in a technology transfer to locally manufacture one of the leading combination vaccines, it was announced yesterday, 2 April 2012.
3 Apr 2012 08:55
It was unclear if government had formed a R1.6bn deal with Swiss pharmaceutical giant Lonza to establish the manufacturing of critical drug components, as the company issued a statement saying that talks were still at an early stage.
13 Feb 2012 12:00
Business confidence fell to its lowest level since May 2010, the South African Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SACCI) said.
9 Feb 2012 09:33
The Department of Trade and Industry wants to run a regular small business census to help improve its support and funding to the sector as part of a revised policy to boost support to small businesses.
9 Feb 2012 09:09The Gauteng Provincial Government says it has put in place measures to ensure the correct spending of public monies. "We are committed to a clean audit. We are committed to spending resources in a manner we can account for," Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane said yesterday, 23 January 2012.
24 Jan 2012 10:17Aspen registered its Andosept trademark in 2005 and launched a pharyngeal product under that name in 2008, in direct competition with the market-leading product Andolex. The Andosept product was placed on pharmacy shelves in packaging similar to that used for Andolex.
12 Jan 2012 12:40The Gauteng Department of Health and Social Development paid almost R300 million to health contractors and suppliers in December. This is in addition to the R600 million that had been paid to vendors earlier in that month, reports the Gauteng Provincial Government.
10 Jan 2012 10:23
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