GenevaLunch » Novartis http://genevalunch.com Community Newspaper Online Sun, 27 May 2012 09:11:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Copyright © GenevaLunch 2010 editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) editor@genevalunch.com (GenevaLunch) http://genevalunch.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpgGenevaLunchhttp://genevalunch.com 144 144 Community Newspaper Online GenevaLunch GenevaLunch editor@genevalunch.com no no Novartis jumps from Prangins shutdown plans to Zurich area growthhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/23/novartis-jumps-from-prangins-shutdown-plans-to-zurich-area-growth/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/23/novartis-jumps-from-prangins-shutdown-plans-to-zurich-area-growth/#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:03:48 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=69400 GenevaLunch.com Five months ago the company was cutting jobs; today it is expanding its Swiss base BASEL / GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Novartis is pumping CHF500 million into a new plant in Stein, canton Aargau, near Zurich, to replace an older one with a state of the art production facility. Stein will become a platform for launching [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/04/23/novartis-jumps-from-prangins-shutdown-plans-to-zurich-area-growth/feed/ 0 Swiss open new research centre in Singaporehttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/14/swiss-open-new-research-centre-in-singapore/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/14/swiss-open-new-research-centre-in-singapore/#comments Wed, 14 Mar 2012 09:35:07 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=67613 GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The official inauguration of Switzerland’s first university research centre in Asia takes place Friday 16 March in Singapore. The Singapore-ETH Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability (SEC) was created by Zurich’s federal polytechnic institute ETH in September 2010 with financial support from the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Singapore. The first research programme [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/03/14/swiss-open-new-research-centre-in-singapore/feed/ 0 Novartis’s Prangins site to remain openhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/17/novartiss-prangins-site-to-remain-open/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/17/novartiss-prangins-site-to-remain-open/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 14:25:20 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=65362 GenevaLunch.com NYON, SWITZERLAND – Novartis will not close its Prangin site and all jobs there will be saved, the company will be investing more money in the plant, canton Vaud will give the company a tax break and some of the unused space will be developed into housing. Tough talks between Novartis workers and managers, the [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/17/novartiss-prangins-site-to-remain-open/feed/ 0 Novartis 2,000 job cuts in US result of patent ending, new drug demand fallhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/13/novartis-1600-job-cuts-in-us-result-of-patent-ending/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/13/novartis-1600-job-cuts-in-us-result-of-patent-ending/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:48:05 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=65219 GenevaLunch.com BASEL, SWITZERLAND – Novartis will be cutting close to 2,000 jobs in the US, in New Jersey, as the result of an expected fall in demand for a relatively new medicine and the expiry of the patent for another, the company announced Friday 13 January in Basel. The sales force will lose 1,630 jobs and [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2012/01/13/novartis-1600-job-cuts-in-us-result-of-patent-ending/feed/ 0 Strikes and protests in Geneva area: Hug calls for calm, Novartis boss visitshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/19/strikes-and-protests-in-geneva-area-hug-calls-for-calm-novartis-boss-visits/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/19/strikes-and-protests-in-geneva-area-hug-calls-for-calm-novartis-boss-visits/#comments Sat, 19 Nov 2011 09:15:09 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63700 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Hug university hospitals in Geneva late Friday pleaded for everyone involved in its lab workers strike to get the situation back to normal, in the wake of the cantonal council’s announcement Thursday that it will not intervene. At issue: work conditions but also a review of the division of labour. The [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/19/strikes-and-protests-in-geneva-area-hug-calls-for-calm-novartis-boss-visits/feed/ 0 Novartis employees in Prangins protest, firm uses numbers to explain closinghttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/04/novartis-employees-in-prangins-protest-firm-uses-numbers-to-explain-closing/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/04/novartis-employees-in-prangins-protest-firm-uses-numbers-to-explain-closing/#comments Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:47:46 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=63215 GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE / NYON, SWITZERLAND – Novartis plans to close its centre in Prangins, next to Nyon, have sparked protests by employees since the news was announced 27 October, and a new protest is planned in Nyon Friday afternoon. The company now says it sending in an expert from the US next week to explain an [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/11/04/novartis-employees-in-prangins-protest-firm-uses-numbers-to-explain-closing/feed/ 0 Novartis to close Nyon site, 1100 jobs to go in Switzerlandhttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/25/novartis-to-close-nyon-site-1100-jobs-to-go-in-switzerland/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/25/novartis-to-close-nyon-site-1100-jobs-to-go-in-switzerland/#comments Tue, 25 Oct 2011 07:38:33 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=62814 GenevaLunch.com NYON, SWITZERLAND – Pharmaceutical company Novartis is closing its site in Nyon as part of a restructuration that will involve eliminating 1,100 jobs in Switzerland. The company is cutting a total of 2,000 jobs, with most of the rest in the US. The Nyon site employs 320 persons and 770 jobs will also go in [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/10/25/novartis-to-close-nyon-site-1100-jobs-to-go-in-switzerland/feed/ 1 Swiss business news highlights 20 July: pharma, oil spill, mediahttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/20/swiss-business-news-highlights-20-july-pharma-oil-spill-media/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/20/swiss-business-news-highlights-20-july-pharma-oil-spill-media/#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2011 11:48:49 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=59998 GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – GenevaLunch is on a slow-news holiday schedule for the next two weeks, but to make sure you don’t miss key reports we’re bringing you highlights from some of the news beats, with links to original sources: EPFL plays key role in understanding Deepwater Horizon oil spill EPFL is playing a key role [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/07/20/swiss-business-news-highlights-20-july-pharma-oil-spill-media/feed/ 0 Novartis profits and mgmt. pay up, but future warningshttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/27/novartis-profits-and-mgmt-pay-up-but-future-warnings/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/27/novartis-profits-and-mgmt-pay-up-but-future-warnings/#comments Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:49:51 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=52918 GenevaLunch.com Basel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss residents could be forgiven for wondering if Novartis is in relatively good or bad shape Thursday morning, depending on which news sources they follow. The company’s annual report, published Thursday 27 January, shows net sales of $50.6 billion, up from $44.3b a year earlier. Net income was close to $10b, [...]

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]]> http://genevalunch.com/blog/2011/01/27/novartis-profits-and-mgmt-pay-up-but-future-warnings/feed/ 0 Novartis settles sex discrimination suit; quarterly sales uphttp://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/15/novartis-settles-sex-discrimination-suit-quarterly-sales-up/ http://genevalunch.com/blog/2010/07/15/novartis-settles-sex-discrimination-suit-quarterly-sales-up/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:14:50 +0000 Ellen Wallace http://genevalunch.com/?p=44939 GenevaLunch.com Basel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) - Pharmaceutical company Novartis and a group of former and current employees who charged the company with sex discrimination have settled the case amicably, the company announced 14 July. It will pay up to $152.5 million in back-pay and compensatory damages to eligible individuals and it has agreed to spend $52.5m over [...]

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