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2 hrs ago | East Bay Business Times

Pfizer to shutter, shift R&D facilities

Pfizer Inc. will close seven research facilities in connection with its $68 billion acquisition of Wyeth , but its South San Francisco unit will remain open.

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Related Topix: Pfizer, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Pearl River, NY, Rouses Point, NY, Chazy, NY, Plattsburgh, NY, Chemicals

11 hrs ago | Bloomberg Business News

Monsanto Faces `Distrust' as New Seeds Seek to Blunt DuPont's Sales Gains

Monsanto Co. , reeling from its first market-share losses to DuPont Co. in a decade, may be losing the confidence of some investors based on early results from the new modified seeds ita s counting on to beat competitors.

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Related Topix: Chemicals, Agriculture, Science, Environmental Law, Law

Mon Nov 09, 2009

St. Louis Business Journal

Pfizer to cut 600 St. Louis jobs

Pfizer Inc. is cutting 600 of its 1,000 St. Louis-area jobs and selling its Chesterfield research facility back to Monsanto Co.

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Related Topix: Pfizer, Biotech, Medicine, Healthcare Industry, Chemicals

Honolulu Star-Bulletin

As pine goes under, prep fields well on new crops

The permanent plowing over of the pineapple industry on Maui is lamentable -- but came as no great surprise.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Food, Chemicals, Hawaii, Kunia, HI, Opinion

Sun Nov 08, 2009

Saint Louis Front Page

Concordia Publishing House Honored for Excellence in Leadership, Customer Service

Savvis Receives Spirit of St. Louis Technology Award ST. LOUIS, MO, , November 1, 2009 - Savvis, Inc., a global leader in outsourced internet infrastructure services for the enterprise, has announced that it has been chosen as the winner of the 2009 Spirit of Technology Award by the St.

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Related Topix: St. Louis, MO Metro, Chemicals, Cloud Computing, Science / Technology

Sat Nov 07, 2009

KTIC

Biotech Traits Approved in EU Positive Move

Kurt Shultz, U.S. Grains Council director in the Mediterranean and Africa, said, "It remains to be seen when U.S. corn gluten feed and DDGS to the EU will resume, but we are hopeful it's soon." This comment comes subsequent to the EU authorizing three types of genetically enhanced corn for food, feed, import and processing on Oct.

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Related Topix: Biotech, Science / Technology, Chemicals

Business Standard

Monsanto to introduce Bt corn

Unfazed by the ongoing opposition to the commercialisation of Bt brinjal, Monsanto India Limited , a subsidiary of US-based global biotech food major Monsanto Company, is planning to introduce genetically modified corn in the country by 2012-13. The proposed corn seed would be embedded with not only Bt but also with the company's 'Roundup ready' ...

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Related Topix: Chemicals, 9

Thu Nov 05, 2009

KTIC

Monsanto Breaks Ground for Research Site in Texas

Monsanto Company broke ground Wednesday on its 10.5 million dollar research "megasite" in Lubbock, Texas.

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Related Topix: Chemicals, Texas, Hale Center, TX

Wed Nov 04, 2009

Scoop

Trade Chaos Looms as GM Crops Proliferate

Thursday, 5 November 2009, 3:03 pm Press Release: Greenwire By Paul Voosen of Greenwire Europe can't feed its pigs -- at least, not by itself.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Chemicals

ABC News

Monsanto Opening First Research Center in China

Monsanto Co., the world's biggest seed maker, on Tuesday said it is opening its first research center in China.

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Related Topix: Chemicals

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Triangle Business Journal

Monsanto corn seeds get EU approval

Two of Monsanto Co. 's corn seeds have won approval from the European Union . Both YieldGard VT Pro and YieldGard VT Rootworm/RR2 were designed to increase crop yields, the company said Friday.

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Related Topix: Chemicals, Agriculture, Science, Creve Coeur, MO

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Ag Professional

EU authorizes Monsanto's YieldGard VT(R) corn technologies

EU authorizes Monsanto's YieldGard VT corn technologies Nov. 2, 2009 ST. LOUIS -- Monsanto Company welcomed Friday the European Union authorization of two of its corn technologies, YieldGard VT Pro and YieldGard VT Rootworm/RR2 . The decision covers the import, processing and food and feed use of these products.

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Related Topix: Chemicals, Agriculture, Science

Bizjournals

Justice investigation targets Monsanto

The U.S. Justice Department 's inquiry into Monsanto Co. 's marketing tactics in the biotech seed industry may be a leading indicator of the Obama administration's approach to antitrust matters in general.

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Related Topix: Chemicals

Sun Nov 01, 2009

Reuters

Timeline: A century of CIT

CIT Group Inc, a lender to a million small and mid-sized U.S. businesses, filed for bankruptcy on Sunday.

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Related Topix: CIT Group, Financial Services, Economics News, Bankruptcy, Chemicals, Livingston, NJ

Rogue Valley IMC

Court Rejects GM Sugar Beets

This is an update about the court battle and Genetically Engineered Beets that are being grown in the Willamette Valley.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, Chemicals, US News, United States Department of Agriculture

Fri Oct 30, 2009

Legal Times

'Monsanto asks Supreme Court to review alfalfa ban'

"Monsanto asks Supreme Court to review alfalfa ban": Today's edition of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch contains an article that begins, "Monsanto Co.

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Related Topix: Chemicals, US Supreme Court, US News

Wed Oct 28, 2009

Pensions & Investments

Monsanto seeds plan with additional $170 million

Monsanto Co., St. Louis, made a voluntary contribution of $170 million to its U.S. pension plan in 2009, confirmed spokeswoman Kelli Powers.

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Related Topix: Chemicals

Tue Oct 27, 2009

Examiner.com

Genetically Modified YOU! - Where health reform starts - pt 12

DNA by Anje Vela - Health Reform - "Let food be your medicine". "Let your food be your medicine, and your medicine be your food." Hippocrates "If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." Thomas Jefferson Q: Can you ...

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Related Topix: Chemicals

Mon Oct 26, 2009

Ag Professional

FDA clears way for testing use of first SDA omega-3 soybean oil in foods

FDA clears way for testing use of first SDA omega-3 soybean oil in foods Oct. 26, 2009 ST.

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Related Topix: Chemicals, Food, Life, Nutrition, Marketing, US News, United States Department of Agriculture

Sun Oct 25, 2009

TheStreet.com

Get an Edge on Rivals With Early Hiring

The "jobless" economic recovery is on. According to a Federal Reserve survey released Wednesday, many industries have stabilized or shown slight improvement in the past few months.

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Related Topix: Chemicals, Small Business, Personal Finance, Business News

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