Recent news on Geigy

UN picks Novartis boss to combat bio-terrorism  -  May 23, 2007
Business Online,...in the pharmaceutical industry, and has been chief executive of Novartis since the company was formed from the merger of Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy in 1996.

Esprit Pharma Elects Robert E. Baldini to Its Board of Directors  -  May 3, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),Mr. Baldini has over fifty years of pharmaceutical experience with major and specialty pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer, Geigy, Ciba-Geigy,

Alexander King  -  May 2, 2007
Guardian Unlimited,By then King was assistant director of scientific research at the Ministry of Supply and read an intercepted letter from Geigy, the Swiss company.

GWA bill redesigned for customers  -  May 9, 2007
Pacific Daily News,..."We hope it's easier to understand," said Geigy Salyon, GWA customer service manager, in a press release. "Customers will start seeing this new bill format

GWA debuting new billing statements  -  May 7, 2007
KUAM.com,GWA customer service manager Geigy Salyon stated in a press release, "We hope it's easier to understand...customers will start seeing this new bill format

IDM Pharma to Present at 6th Annual JMP Securities Research Conference  -  May 22, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),...the possibility that regulatory authorities may not consider preclinical and early clinical development work conducted by Ciba-Geigy and efficacy data

Streetwise: Nothing foreign about Novartis' growth  -  May 19, 2007
Pittsburgh Post Gazette,Created in 1996 through the merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz, Novartis is organized into four divisions, pharmaceuticals, vaccines and diagnostics,

46th Annual Graduate Division Commencement at Mission Bay ...  -  May 9, 2007
Synapse,Dr. Rutter previously served as a founder and Chairman of Chiron Corporation and as a member of the Board of Directors of Ciba-Geigy/Novartis.

Thinking Outside The Big Pharma Box  -  May 7, 2007
Chemical & Engineering NewsNovartis Venture Fund was launched in 1996, when Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy merged to create Novartis. The fund's original allocation of about $60 million was

Tuesday Letters to the Press  -  May 1, 2007
Asbury Park Press,It has not been publicized that rail already exists beyond the proposed Lakehurst terminal of MOM, all the way to the Toms River Ciba-Geigy site.

Cover Story  -  May 8, 2007
Lagniappe,..."Ciba-Geigy and Degussa have been good supporters of the arts for years," Burnett said. The pair of German companies have operated chemical plants in Mobile

Genelabs Technologies Announces Appointment of Leslie J. Browne ...  -  Apr 23, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),Before Berlex, he was employed by Ciba-Geigy Corporation, where he discovered Fadrozole, the first marketed non-steroidal aromatase inhibitor for the

Talking about the good old days  -  Apr 8, 2007
Glens Falls Post-Star,COM Ninety-two-year-old Floyd Pickett holds up a copy of the January 1979 'Colorist,' Ciba-Geigy's company newsletter, which announced his retirement from

Nestle gobbles up Gerber  -  Apr 12, 2007
Indianapolis Star,Nestle first tried to acquire Gerber in 1994, but lost out to Sandoz, which later merged with Ciba-Geigy to form Switzerland-based Novartis.

Nestle No. 1 in baby food after $5.5B Gerber buy  -  Apr 13, 2007
Orlando Sentinel,Nestle has coveted Gerber for more than a decade, first trying to acquire it in 1994, but losing out to Sandoz AG, which later merged with Ciba-Geigy to

Nestle to buy Gerber, giving it the largest share of the global ...  -  Apr 13, 2007
The News Journal,Nestle first went after Gerber in 1994, but lost to Sandoz AG, which later merged with Ciba-Geigy to form Novartis. In 2000, Gerber began selling a line of

Nestle to buy Gerber for $5.5 billion  -  Apr 12, 2007
Cincinnati Post,It first tried to acquire the unit in 1994, but lost to Sandoz AG, which later merged with Ciba-Geigy to form Novartis. Since then, Novartis has taken steps

Nestle buys baby food biz off Novartis  -  Apr 12, 2007
Economic Times,It made an offer for the group back in 1994, but was thwarted by Sandoz, which went on to merge with Ciba-Geigy, which gave birth to Novartis.

Nestle buys Gerber for $5.5B  -  Apr 12, 2007
Market-Day.net,Nestle, of Vevey, Switzerland, tried to buy Gerber in 1994 but lost out to Sandoz AG, which later merged with Ciba-Geigy to form Novartis.

Nestle said expected to buy Gerber unit  -  Apr 11, 2007
BusinessWeekNestle, based in Vevey, Switzerland, first tried to acquire Gerber in 1994, but lost to Sandoz AG, which later merged with Ciba-Geigy to form Novartis.

Just in time for spring cleaning  -  Apr 12, 2007
Asbury Park Press,With little heavy industry other than the now-closed Ciba-Geigy plant in Toms River, county officials realized in the 1980s that household hazardous waste

IDM's bone cancer drug set for May panel  -  Apr 3, 2007
United Press International...resectable osteosarcoma, 332 of whom received Junovan, and other trials done by Ciba-Geigy, in which 248 patients received at least one dose of Junovan.

John de Bruyne's entrepreneur's view  -  Apr 24, 2007
Cambridge Evening News,Many years later, when he sold it to Ciba-Geigy, they praised his choice as the perfect location for a major chemical plant. It was flat, had underground

IDM Pharma Inc. Announces Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee ...  -  Apr 3, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),The biological effects and safety of Junovan are further supported by data from 17 Phase I and II clinical studies performed by Ciba-Geigy in which an

WPI to Feature Millennium Pharmaceuticals CEO Deborah Dunsire as ...  -  Apr 20, 2007
PR Newswire (press release),She was also responsible for managing the merger and significant growth of the combined Sandoz Pharmaceuticals and Ciba-Geigy oncology businesses.

Prescription Drug & Pharmaceutical News  -  Mar 29, 2007
Drug Newswire (press release),Dr. Heifetz has held research and management positions at Ciba-Geigy Corporation and its successor, Novartis, and currently serves on the Scientific

The promise of eternal youth  -  Apr 19, 2007
Guardian Unlimited,So, it's no surprise that in the 1980s when drug company Ciba Geigy launched Estraderm and later Estrapak, two forms of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) it

IDM Pharma Appoints Edward E. Penhoet, Ph.D to Board of Directors  -  Apr 19, 2007
Genetic Engineering News (press release),...the possibility that regulatory authorities may not consider preclinical and early clinical development work conducted by Ciba-Geigy and efficacy data

Tasty pastry  -  Apr 17, 2007
MLive.com,...from Michigan State University and a background in computer science, she went to work for the insurance company AIG and then chemical maker Ciba Geigy.

Barnegat Bay-protection groups receive $20000 in grants  -  Apr 17, 2007
Press of Atlantic City,Funds for the Barnegat Bay Environmental Grant program are part of a $2.5 million contribution by the Ciba-Geigy Corp. (now Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corp.

Bay grants aid canal trail plan, education programs  -  Apr 16, 2007
Asbury Park Press,Originally funded with part of a $2.5 million contribution from the Ciba-Geigy Corp. as part of a pollution settlement with state authorities,

Company says well field cleanup making progress  -  Apr 16, 2007
Asbury Park Press,...concluded that exposure to contaminated drinking water from the well field and to polluted air from the former Ciba-Geigy Superfund site was associated

Nestlé pays $6.2 billion to adopt  -  Apr 13, 2007
Toronto Star,Nestlé has coveted Gerber for more than a decade, first trying to acquire it in 1994, but losing out to Sandoz AG, which later merged with Ciba-Geigy to

Nestl bids US$5.5b for Gerber Products  -  Apr 12, 2007
Jamaica Gleaner,Nestl first tried to acquire Gerber in 1994, but lost to Sandoz AG, which later merged with Ciba-Geigy to form Novartis.

Gerber brand to change hands  -  Apr 12, 2007
Houston Chronicle,Nestlé has coveted Gerber for more than a decade, first trying to acquire it in 1994, but losing out to Sandoz, which later merged with Ciba-Geigy to form

Nestle to buy Gerber  -  Apr 12, 2007
Gulf Daily News,Nestle first tried to acquire Gerber in 1994, but lost to Sandoz AG, which later merged with Ciba-Geigy to form Novartis.

Nestle announces Gerber purchase  -  Apr 13, 2007
Contra Costa Times,Nestle has coveted Gerber for more than a decade, first trying to acquire it in 1994 but losing out to Sandoz AG, which later merged with Ciba-Geigy to form

Nestle swallows Gerber baby foods  -  Apr 12, 2007
NEWS.com.au,It made an offer for the group back in 1994, but was thwarted by Sandoz, which went on to merge with Ciba-Geigy to create Novartis.

Nestle to buy Gerber for $5.5B  -  Apr 13, 2007
The Herald-Times (subscription),Nestle first tried to acquire Gerber in 1994, but lost to Sandoz AG, which later merged with Ciba-Geigy to form Novartis. Since then, Novartis has taken

Nestle to purchase Gerber for $5.5 billion  -  Apr 13, 2007
Ventura County Star (subscription),Gerber for more than a decade, first trying to acquire it in 1994, but losing out to Sandoz AG, which later merged with Ciba-Geigy to form Novartis.

Nestle becomes baby food giant  -  Apr 12, 2007
Peninsula On-line,It made an offer for the group back in 1994, but was thwarted by Sandoz, which went on to merge with Ciba-Geigy to give birth to Novartis.

Dr. Nat Timmins  -  Apr 12, 2007
Pueblo Business Journal,He received Phi Beta Kappa honors from Stanford University, the 1992 Ciba-Geigy Community Service Award and is a graduate of the University of California at

Nestle buys Gerber  -  Apr 12, 2007
Cay Compass,Nestle first tried to acquire Gerber in 1994, but lost to Sandoz AG, which later merged with Ciba–Geigy to form Novartis. Since then, Novartis has taken

Nestlé adds Gerber baby to its family  -  Apr 12, 2007
Business Report,...products after the Gerber sale, compared with only 45 percent when the company was created in 1996 through the combination of Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy.

Nestle to Buy Gerber for $5.5 Billion, Expand in US (Update6)  -  Apr 12, 2007
Bloomberg...will now get almost all of its sales from drugs, compared with 45 percent when it was created in 1996 through the combination of Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy.

Pet Food Maker Branches Out to Baby Food  -  Apr 12, 2007
Associated Content,It made an offer in 1994, but was outbid by Sandoz, a company that eventually merged with Ciba-Geigy to form Novartis.

RIM Weighs on Pre-Market Mood  -  Apr 12, 2007
123Jump.com,Nestle firstapproached Gerber in 1994, but lost to Sandoz AG, which later merged with Ciba-Geigy to form Novartis. The deal is expected to be completed

Nestle Buys Gerber Brand From Novartis  -  Apr 12, 2007
Smartmoney.comThe food and beverage company, first tried to acquire Gerber in 1994, but lost out to Sandoz AG, which later merged with Ciba-Geigy to form Novartis.

Toms River GOP picks Gregory P. McGuckin as mayoral candidate  -  Apr 3, 2007
Asbury Park Press,McGuckin wants to remove all drums from Cell 1, a lined landfill on the Ciba-Geigy Corp. Superfund site. He also wants the township to gain control of its

Donor, Jewish Home In Arbitration Over Naming Rights Fight  -  Mar 31, 2007
San Fernando Valley Business Journal Online (subscription),...to Las Vegas a few years ago following a career as a psychologist in Encinitas and director of research for Hoffman LaRoche and later Ciba-Geigy Corp.

Santhera Announces Appointment of Cesare Mondadori as Head of Research  -  Mar 28, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),Dr Mondadori began his scientific career at Ciba-Geigy, Basel, Switzerland in 1978 as a research scientist in psychopharmacology.

How to handle a corporate scandal  -  27 Mar 2007
Ottawa Citizen (subscription),A decade ago, as newly named CEO, Dr. Vasella laid out his plan to shake up Novartis (the result of the merger of Ciba-Geigy with Sandoz.

WEC Calls for Nominations for Corporate Sustainable Development Award  -  Mar 21, 2007
Environmental Leader,Ciba-Geigy Limited (1995), SC Johnson & Son, Inc. (1994), Xerox Corporation (1993), Procter & Gamble Company (1992), Rohm & Haas Company (1991),

Foolish Trivia  -  Mar 20, 2007
Philadelphia Inquirer,Last Week's Trivia Answer: I was created in 1996 when two Swiss chemical-life sciences giants, Ciba-Geigy AG and Sandoz Ltd., agreed to merge.

Plant had 'colorful' history  -  Mar 4, 2007
Glens Falls Post-Star,In 1987, Ciba-Geigy, the sixth-largest employer in the city, closed, leaving 500 workers in the greater Glens Falls area out of a job.

Local pigments were the top of the line  -  Mar 11, 2007
Glens Falls Post-Star,When Glens Falls operations ceased, Ciba-Geigy's large Scottish installation replaced its phthalocyanine crude process with the superior one employed at

Gerald M. Ostrov Joins the NuLens Board of Directors  -  Feb 28, 2007
Earthtimes.orgPreviously, he was President of Ciba-Geigy's Consumer Pharmaceuticals Company. Mr. Ostrov earned a BS, in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research,

Mass Murder and Good Intentions  -  Mar 24, 2007
The Conservative Voice,Finally, in 1939, during the early stages of World War II, Swiss chemist Paul Müller of Geigy Pharmaceuticals developed a pesticide called

Protein protects pancreatic cancer cells: researchers  -  Mar 20, 2007
Hindu,...both in Chandigarh and also trained at the Indian Council of Medical Research in New Delhi and the CIBA-GEIGY Research Center in Bombay.

Early environmentalist foresaw dangers of rapid growth  -  Mar 18, 2007
The Australian,It was there, by chance, that a letter from the Geigy company in Switzerland to its subsidiary in Manchester was intercepted by the censor in Liverpool and

The Motley Fool  -  Mar 18, 2007
Canton Repository (subscription),I was created in 1996 when two Swiss chemical/life sciences giants, Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz, agreed to merge. (The companies traced their origins back to the

Novartis Is a Pipeline Dream  -  Mar 14, 2007
Barron's (subscription)Created in 1996 when Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz merged, Novartis, the world's third-largest pharmaceutical company, gets its name from the Latin "novae artes,"

Wood Co. judge enjoyed people, public service  -  Mar 13, 2007
Toledo Blade,...career was not what he wanted, so he took a sales job with the Geigy Pharmaceuticals Co. while attending the University of Toledo's night law classes.

Orchid Cellmark Appoints Bruce Basarab as Vice President of North ...  -  Mar 9, 2007
Genetic Engineering News (press release),Mr. Basarab was promoted to this position from predecessor company Ciba-Geigy, where he first was Executive Director of Northwest Sales and then was

Classique Leisure launches Ultrawood and sponsors designex  -  Mar 6, 2007
Infolink Architecture & Building,Every Ultrawood, synthetic timber extrusion is combined with part recycled timber waste (sawdust), mixed with PVC resin and Swiss-made Ciba-Geigy UV

Novartis Shareholders Approve All Resolutions at 2006 Annual ...  -  Mar 6, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),Birgit Breuel, who has served on the Board since the creation of Novartis and previously for the predecessor company Ciba-Geigy AG, retired at her own wish

Revealed: My life with the Royals - by Beatrice's ex  -  Mar 4, 2007
Daily Mail,August 2005 was 28-year-old Count Alexander Clavel, a louche and effete aristocrat whose great-grandfather founded the Ciba-Geigy pharmaceutical empire.

Big pharma slims down to bolster productivity  -  Mar 2, 2007
Nature.com (subscription),...says Paul Herrling, Head of Corporate Research at Novartis and part of the team that successfully merged Ciba–Geigy and Sandoz Pharma.

IDM Pharma Announces the Completion of Enrollment in Two Phase II ...  -  Mar 1, 2007
PipelineReview.com (press release),...the possibility that regulatory authorities may not consider preclinical and early clinical development work conducted by Ciba-Geigy and efficacy data

Altea Therapeutics Appoints Dr. William R. Good to its Board of ...  -  Feb 7, 2007
Business Wire (press release),Prior to his tenure at TheraTech/Watson, Dr. Good spent 23 years with Ciba-Geigy Corp. (now Novartis), where he founded the Advanced Drug Delivery

Novartis revives an Indian experiment in China  -  Jan 26, 2007
E-convergence Technologies Limited,They find Novartis’ moves a mere echo of those made by its erstwhile predecessor, Ciba-Geigy. It may be recalled that Novartis is the new entity that was

TOPIC OF THE DAY Community activist  -  Feb 13, 2007
Asbury Park Press,The true character of this man was shown when for well over a year, he was the only politician in the state who had the courage to stand up to Ciba-Geigy

Ex-mayor remembered for his passion  -  Jan 30, 2007
Asbury Park Press,During his term as mayor, Gorga was one of the founding members Save Our Ocean, formed to put an end to the practice of the then-Ciba-Geigy to discharge

IDM Pharma Raises $12.8 Million in Private Placement  -  Feb 21, 2007
Business Wire (press release),...the possibility that regulatory authorities may not consider preclinical and early clinical development work conducted by Ciba-Geigy and efficacy data

Small Firms Seek to Profit  -  Feb 6, 2007
Wall Street Journal (subscription),By the mid-1990s, scientists from Ciba-Geigy had built a renin inhibitor that was simple enough to be reasonably absorbed by the human body.

PASB passes plan: Four-year Act 93 deal with employees achieved  -  Feb 17, 2007
Phoenixville News,He said PASD had six wells installed, Ciba-Geigy installed four wells in 1985 and 1987 and one well was installed on behalf of the prior owner of the

Mesa Therapeutics Powers Up for Success Organizational Announcement  -  Feb 16, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),Before Novartis, Ralph led US marketing efforts at Ciba-Geigy, for a number of prescription products in Cardiovascular, Smoking Cessation, Oncology and

Novartis proposes approval of tenth consecutive higher dividend ...  -  Feb 9, 2007
WebWire (press release),Birgit Breuel, who has served on the Board since the creation of Novartis and previously for the predecessor company Ciba-Geigy AG, will retire at her own

Brush says he won't seek 2nd term as mayor  -  Feb 9, 2007
Asbury Park Press,...the state Department of Environmental Protection to force Ciba Specialty Chemicals to remove all drummed waste from the former Ciba-Geigy Corp. site,

‘Developing a global logo at the expense of heritage and culture ...  -  Feb 7, 2007
Financial Express,We were called to design a logo when Ciba and Geigy were being merged and we worked on it for year in Switzerland. We then retained identities of both the

Respect for human rights requires debt cancellation  -  Feb 5, 2007
Eureka Street,Biochemical and agricultural multinational corporations (MNCs) such as Sandoz, Shell and Ciba-Geigy claim patent rights over seed varieties found in

Anavex Life Sciences Corp. Acquires a Portfolio of Patents and ...  -  Jan 31, 2007
CCNMatthews (press release),...at the University of Athens (Greece) as well as at Chropi Pharmaceuticals (Piraeus, Greece), Ciba-Geigy (Basel, Switzerland) and Sanofi (Montpellier,

Thursday Letters to the Press  -  18 Jan 2007
Asbury Park Press,In 1984, the citizens of Ocean County discovered that the Ciba-Geigy industrial pipeline discharging into the Atlantic Ocean contained toxic waste.

IDM Pharma seeks OK of osteosarcoma drug  -  Dec 26, 2006
United Press InternationalIDM said the pharmacokinetic data already submitted with its NDA were based on administration of the drug previously manufactured by Ciba-Geigy,

IDM Pharma Announces Acceptance for Review of the NDA for Junovan ...  -  Dec 26, 2006
American Digital Networks (press release),The pharmacokinetic data in the submission were collected following administration of the product previously manufactured by Ciba-Geigy.

Alba Therapeutics Appoints Dr. Sefik S. Alkan to Lead Discovery ...  -  Jan 9, 2007
PR Newswire (press release),From 1980 to 1998, Dr. Alkan worked for Novartis Pharma AG (formerly Ciba-Geigy) in Basel, Switzerland leading drug discovery efforts focused on type I/II

Panacos Appoints Alan W. Dunton, MD as New CEO  -  Jan 8, 2007
PharmaLive.com (press release),His prior experience included positions with Roche, CIBA-GEIGY (now Novartis) and Syntex (now Roche). Dr. Dunton also developed and implemented an Ethical

Fire training center gets state help  -  Dec 22, 2006
Glens Falls Post-Star,In response, the counties are considering sites in Kingsbury, near the Floyd D. Bennett-Warren County Airport, and in Queensbury, near the former Ciba-Geigy

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