Two drugmakers spent hundreds of millions of dollars last year to raise awareness of a murky illness, helping boost sales of pills recently approved as treatments and drowning out unresolved questions _ including whether it's a real disease at all…
People in developing countries run health risks from pharmaceutical companies testing drugs on them for the Western market. An Indian research report published today again shows several pharmaceutical companies’ disregard for ethical rules. ‘The Indian Centre for Studies in Ethics…
2009 started with a lot of new green chemical offerings ranging from the cleaning industry, to automobile and construction. Here are some of the selected ones mostly in the plastic arena. Hint: If you want your newly launched green chemicals/technology…
The word came last spring at a climate change conference here. Unilever, the world's largest buyer of palm oil, would publicly call for a moratorium on deforestation by Indonesian growers of the coveted oil used in food, soaps, detergents, cosmetics…
Based on a recommendation from the Council on Ethics for the Government Pension Fund — Global, the Ministry of Finance has excluded the Canadian mining company Barrick Gold Corporation from the Fund. Barrick mines for gold in the Porgera mine…
Le groupe bancaire européen BNP Paribas , né le 23 mai 2000 de la fusion de la Banque nationale de Paris (BNP) et de Paribas, s'est lancée dans la recherche des investisseurs pour la RD Congo. A l'issue des entretiens,…
Forced leave, wage reductions, hiring freezes and shorter hours simply did not do enough. A year into this recession, companies across the board are resorting to mass job cuts. Home Depot, Caterpillar, Sprint Nextel and at least eight other companies…
Record battu! Encore une fois. Le chiffre d’affaires de McDonald’s Suisse aurait progressé de 3 à 5% en 2008. En tout cas, ses ventes ont dépassé la barre des 600 millions de francs, contre 585 millions en 2007. Dopé par…
Candy Group è entrato nella elite di aziende impegnate con Quattroruote a ridurre del 10% le emissioni di CO2 della flotta di veicoli aziendali. Il programma di Quattroruote (il mensile della Domus che è il riferimento base del mercato automobilistico…
Biotechnology is a key component of a public-private partnership that could save millions of lives by developing drought-tolerant maize for small-scale farming operations in sub-Saharan Africa. More than 300 million Africans depend on maize as their main food source. The…
