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GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Ernesto Bertarelli and Hansjoerg Wyss are putting up the money to buy the old Merck Serano site, 45,000 square metres that they want to see become the new “Campus Biotech” in Geneva. They announced Wednesday afternoon that they have now purchased the property, a key step in bringing to life the project [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Merck Serono, one year after the news that it was closing down its Geneva head office, is not living up to its promises, the Tribune de Genève says today. The media accuses the firm of approving only seven startups to date, when it hoped to soften the blow of the closing news [...]
BASEL, SWITZERLAND – Roche Pharmaceuticals in Basel is the latest Swiss pharma firm to announce job cuts, saying Tuesday 26 June that it will be laying off 1,000 workers at its Nutley, NJ site. The company will be creating about 80 new positions in Switzerland and Germany as part of efforts to consolidate its research [...]
Security guards appear outside entrances, exits, as tension mounts GENEVA, SWITZERLANDF – The tension is growing at Merck Serono’s European head office following the company’s announcement Tuesday 19 June that it will move ahead with plans to close the Geneva operation. Some 600 employees have voted to strike Wednesday, with the one-day strike open to [...]
€30 million fund to encourage employees to create startups GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Merck Serono confirmed Tuesday morning 19 June that it will go ahead with plans to close its Geneva European head office, “After a thorough review of these proposals, the Company has determined that these proposals are not viable or practicable given the need to [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Merck Serono employees have voted to go on strike tomorrow, Tuesday 12 June, with union officials citing the company’s lack of response to three proposals put forward by employees last Thursday.
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Three options have been handed to the owners of Merck Serono by the companies employees, who face either a transfer or in the case of most, the loss of their jobs. The group met Monday evening 4 June and in a vote that was nearly unanimous, 630 people said yes to the [...]
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Johann Schneider-Ammann, Swiss minister for the economy, met Monday 7 May with Geneva cantonal authorities and senior executives from Merck Serono, which announced a week ago it will be closing its Geneva European head office and cutting 700 jobs. Schneider-Ammann, who labeled the decision to close down Geneva operations and cut back [...]
Novartis sales down, Syngenta berated by Bern Declaration GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Merck-Serono in Geneva announced Tuesday 24 April that it is closing its head office in Geneva and moving other Swiss-based operations to Darmstadt, Germany. The “transformation programme” will involve cutting 500 jobs and transferring another 750, mainly to Germany, where Darmstadt will become the [...]
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