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• First100Days - Take the Survey!
  Experience tells us that the first 100 days can be crucial to the success of a newly-appointed executive. Yet, fact-based insight into the factors and dynamics that affect executives as they integrate into their organizations, is not widely available...until now.
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• Borderless Executive Search appoints Omar Shamma to lead its activities in the Middle East
  Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, Borderless Executive Search, a global firm specializing in finding and attracting talented leaders for Process & Converting Industries, Life Sciences, Food Processing and Environmental Technologies sectors, has appointed Omar Shamma to lead its executive search activities in the Middle East. 
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• Genuine Business Lessons From Donald Trump
  At a time when Main Street is calling for the scalps of business titans from John Thain, the former chief executive officer of Merrill Lynch, to Ken Lewis, CEO of Bank of America, somehow Donald Trump remains unscathed. Not just unscathed but extremely popular. By Shaun Rein
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• Which of These Six Leadership Styles Works Best?
  Leadership is a big, vague, amorphous topic. We can write about great leaders at great length. But practically speaking, how do you become one? By Alan Murray
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• Nov 3: News and Challenges in the German Healthcare
  HBA Launch in Frankfurt
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• Oct 1-2: HBA EUR- Zurich Pan European Event
  Career advancement in economic uncertainty, developing as an entrepreneur and retaining talent in tough times top the bill at the European branch of the Healthcare Business Woman's Association upcoming conference in Zurich, Switzerland.
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• Dow Appoints New Country Manager For Malaysia (Feb 5, 2010)
  The Dow Chemical Company, the specialty chemicals and advanced materials company, has appointed James Thong as Country Manager for Malaysia.
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• FKuR expands to North America (Feb 4, 2010)
  At the beginning of 2010, FKuR Kunststoff GmbH (Willlich, Germany) began operations of its newly founded subsidiary, FKuR Plastics Corporation, in Cedar Park, Texas, USA with a team of 4 people.
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• Air Products Makes Unsolicited Bid to Acquire Airgas (Feb 5, 2010)
  Air Products has made an unsolicited bid to acquire Airgas for $7 billion in cash. The proposed deal would create the biggest industrial gases company in North America.
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• Eastman might sell PET business? (Feb 5, 2010)
  Many in the plastics industry know Eastman Chemical Co. as a PET resin supplier. But the company may be planning to exit that business, according to a story in the daily paper where the company is headquartered.
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• Reach Registration: 'Panic is Starting to Set In' (Feb 8, 2010)
  A significant number of chemical companies are starting to panic as they could miss the December 1 deadline for registering their chemical substances under the Registration, Evaluation, and Authorisation of Chemicals (Reach) program, says Jo Lloyd, director/ReachReady.
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• Western chemical groups in strategic move towards specialties (Feb 8, 2010)
  FOR THE chemical industries of Western Europe, North America and Japan, the future seems to lie in specialties. But their transformation into sectors that are predominantly manufacturers of value-added products will probably be a slow process.
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• Cadbury Chairman, CEO and CFO to Stand Down (Feb 3, 2010)
  The chairman, chief executive and finance officer of Cadbury said on Wednesday they would stand down after rival Kraft Foods finally won control of the British confectioner.
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• Kraft to Boost UK Manufacturing Jobs - Mandelson (Feb 3, 2010)
  Kraft Foods Inchas not committed to running Cadbury Plcfrom Britain, but expects to boost manufacturing in the country, British Business Secretary Peter Mandelson said Tuesday.
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• China's Rodobo to Expand Raw Milk Processing Capacity (Feb 8, 2010)
  Rodobo International, Inc. announced its completion of the acquisition of three dairy companies in the People's Republic of China, through the mergers of Ewenkeqi Beixue Dairy Co, Ltd, Hulunbeier Beixue Dairy Co., Ltd, and Hulunbeier Hailaer Beixue Dairy Factory.
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• Japanese brewers Kirin, Suntory end merger talks (Feb 8, 2010)
  Japanese brewers Kirin Holdings (2503.T) and Suntory SUNTH.UL dropped plans to create a combined food and drinks group with $43 billion in annual sales after disagreeing over levels of control in a merged firm.
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• UK Organic Sales Start to Revive After Dip (Feb 4, 2010)
  Demand for organic food and drink in Britain is starting to revive after a recession driven decline, Patrick Holden, director of the Soil Association, said on Wednesday.
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• Europe's Food Groups Look to Volume-Led Growth (Feb 1, 2010)
  Europe's top food makers are set to report solid 2009 sales growth this month, coupled with outlooks for the coming year dominated by prospects for volume-lead growth as economies slowly recover.
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• Genzyme alters the role of its lead independent director (Feb 8 2010)
  Genzyme has revealed alterations to the role of its lead independent director and has appointed new leadership for its board's audit committee.
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• GSK appoints Philippe Fauchet as president of GSK Japan (Feb 8 2010)
  GSK announces the appointment of Philippe Fauchet as president of GSK Japan. Philippe will report to Marc Dunoyer, who takes the new role as chairman of GSK Japan.
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• Deadline looms for Sanofi-Merck vet combo (Feb 8 2010)
  There's a loose end hanging from Merial, the animal health company now wholly owned by Sanofi-Aventis.
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• Ratiopharm fields decisive takeover bids-sources (Feb 8 2010)
  Generic-drug makers Teva and Actavis, backed by Swedish buyout firm EQT, have placed make-or-break bids for German peer Ratiopharm but drug major Pfizer is expected to also be a contender, sources said.
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• FTC Wants More Staff To Tackle Biopharma Mergers (Feb 5 2010)
  In response to recent merger activity, the agency is seeking a budget of $314 million, which amounts to a 22 percent increase, in fiscal year 2011.
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• For tough 2010, pharma cuts billions from R&D (Feb 5 2010)
  Over the last week or so, we've seen three Big Pharmas announce big changes to their research operations--and those big changes include big job cuts. Big cost savings, too, the companies say.
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• Siemens uncorks plans for €70m turbine factory in India (Feb 4, 2010)
  In a direct challenge to Suzlon, Siemens has unveiled its long-awaited plans to open a €70m ($98m) turbine production facility in India, as it vies for a permanent slice of one of the world’s largest and fastest growing markets for renewables.
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• Semprius Surges Into 2010: A Siemens Deal, VC Funds (Feb 3, 2010)
  Hit the ground running in 2010. That appears to be the game plan for Semprius, a semiconductor technology company that is developing solar concentrator photovoltaics (CPV), systems that use mirrors and lenses to concentrate sunlight onto highly efficient solar cells.
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• Sunedison activates US solar plant (Feb 8, 2010)
  SunEdison has activated the first phase of its 16MW solar farm in Davidson County, North Carolina.
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• Wipro Water eyes large treatment projects (Feb 8, 2010)
  Wipro Water, a division of the IT major Wipro, today said it will enter into executing big water treatment projects, worth up to the tune of Rs 100 crore, as it looks to expand its business in the country.
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• Green policies could help move UK out of the red (Feb 8, 2010)
  The UK could slash its deficit by £12bn a year by scrapping tax breaks for carbon-intensive industries and halting investment in projects that will increase carbon emissions, according to a study from sustainable business think-tank the Green Alliance.
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• China overtakes USA in wind (Feb 5, 2010)
  China overtook the USA for volumes of new installations and manufacturing of wind turbines for the first time in 2009, according to a report by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).
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