IMS Company Profiles - Report Buyer

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Sandoz an nounced it was to buy Imutran (UK), a biotech firm spe cial iz ing in xenotransplantation.
• Year: 1995
Sandoz ac quired Ge netic Ther apy Inc (USA) for $295 mil lion. It al ready owned 6% of Ge netic Ther apy.
• Year: 1994
Sandoz ac quired baby food com pany, Gerber (USA) for $3.7 bil lion.
Sandoz agreed to pur chase Monal (France), a maker of plant-based drug prod ucts and herbal teas.
Ciba in creased its 7.9% stake in Chiron to 49.9% for SFr2,806 mil lion.
Ciba ac quired Rhone-Poulenc Rorer’s (now sanofi-aventis) North Amer i can OTC busi ness; J&J’s (USA)
Iolab Corp’s ophthalmics busi ness; Lab o ra to ries Henri Faure (France), an ophthalmological pro ducer;
and a $5 mil lion stake in CoCensys (USA) as part of a de vel op ment and mar ket ing deal.
• Year: 1993
Sandoz bought the Reforma Group (Neth er lands), which spe cial izes in adult di etetic prod ucts.
• Year: 1992
Ciba ac quired the ma jor ity of Un ion Med i cal (Ja pan), an eyecare prod uct dis trib u tor; Carreras SA (Spain),
a dermatologicals man u fac turer; Tri ton Di ag nos tics Inc’s (USA) can cer di ag nos tics busi ness; Fisons’
(UK) North Amer i can OTC busi ness; and bought the re main ing shares in Ricky Contact Lenses (Japan).
• Year: 1991
Sandoz’s Nu tri tion di vi sion pur chased the di etary prod ucts com pany Dietetique et Sante (France) from
Rhone-Poulenc Rorer; and an 82% hold ing in Eden (Ger many), a Ger man healthfoods company.
Ciba ac quired a mi nor ity stake in InSite Vi sion Inc (USA). The deal also cov ered R&D of oph thal mic
pharmaceuticals and sub se quent li cens ing; Laboratoire Mar ti net Ophthalmologie (France); and a stake
in Litpharm (CIS), a phar ma ceu ti cal pro duc tion and dis tri bu tion company.
• Year: 1990
Ciba bought ICI’s (UK) OTC busi ness in the UK and Ire land; Bris tol-Myers Squibb’s (USA) an i mal health
busi ness; Webber Inc (Can ada), an OTC prod ucts man u fac turer; and a mi nor ity stake in Tanox
Biosystems (USA) as part of a re search deal with Tanox.
• Year: 1980s
1989: Sandoz ac quired Virgo Op tics (USA). Ciba pur chased Corn ing Glass Works’ (USA) 50% stake in the
Ciba-Geigy Corn ing Di ag nos tics jv set up in 1985. Ciba ac quired To ledo and Ohaus.
1987: Sandoz Nu tri tion ac quired Dietcentrum SA (Bel gium), a healthfood man u fac turer in creased its
hold ing in the Ce real Group (France) to a ma jor ity stake. It also made three small ac qui si tions, in clud ing
the Ideal brand, to add to the Wasa Group.
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