All Employment articles – Page 5
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BusinessDow to cut 2500 jobs in Corning merger
Firm will close silicones manufacturing plants in North Carolina and Japan as it absorbs former joint venture
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BusinessJ&J to buy Vogue for haircare range
$3.3bn deal expands Johnson & Johnson’s consumer products segment
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BusinessVertellus enters bankruptcy
Chemical maker files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for its US operations and plans to auction the business
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BusinessDuPont shutters US plant where leak killed four workers
La Porte plant will not reopen after fatal methyl mercaptan leak in 2014
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BusinessSanction lift triggers investment in Iran
Ambitious state plans and openness to foreign companies could combine to revive Iran’s chemical industry
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BASF to cut 350 jobs in plant science research
Company will also close field trial sites in Hawaii, India and Puerto Rico
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BusinessOil slump reverberates in chemicals
Collapse in crude prices has complex and mixed effects on markets for derivative chemicals
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BP to cut 7000 jobs
UK oil company reduces its workforce to cut costs in response to low oil price and charges from Deepwater Horizon incident
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BusinessJ&J to cut 3000 jobs in medical devices unit
Cost-saving cuts will help ‘accelerate the pace of innovation’, company claims
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Monsanto adds 1000 to job cut tally
Cost reduction plan brings cuts up to 16% of global workforce by the end of 2018
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BusinessDuPont cuts go deep in Delaware
Following its merger with Dow, DuPont will terminate 1700 positions in Delaware, US, as part of a cost-cutting drive
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BusinessDow and DuPont mega-merger heralds break-up of giants
New firm will split itself in speciality, agrichemical and materials businesses with R&D taking a hit from cost savings
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Pfizer to close Cambridge pain outpost
120 jobs under threat from closure of Neusentis subsidiary R&D site
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Job cuts at Daiichi, Perrigo and Cabot
Staff reductions aimed at cutting costs or, in Perrigo’s case, fending off a takeover bid
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Biogen to cut 800 jobs worldwide
US biotech is reducing its workforce by 11% and cancelling several R&D programmes to cut costs
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Monsanto plans 2600 layoffs
Sales losses prompt agrochemical giant to slash workforce by 12% over the next two years
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BusinessMerger fever sweeps pharma
The life sciences sector has been gripped by a mergers and acquisition frenzy, and it looks set to continue. But what does it mean for the industry?