Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca announced today that it will lay off 8,000 employees over the next four years, representing 12% of its workforce. Job cuts will impact all divisions of the company, which has a presence in over 100 countries around the world. AstraZeneca’s U.S. headquarters are in Wilmington, Delaware. The company’s U.S. workforce makes up [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, January 9, 2010
Pharmaceutical powerhouse, Pfizer, announced yesterday that it would be cutting a total of 680 jobs from it’s Collegeville and Great Valley campuses. The layoffs had been expected ever since Pfizer Inc. purchased rival Wyeth back in October. The Collegeville and Great Valley campuses were once major Wyeth operations. Gwen Fisher, a spokeswoman for Pfizer told told [...]
Continue reading...Monday, November 9, 2009
Pfizer is cutting 600 jobs in St Louis as part of a restructuring being done in the wake of its purchase of drug and vaccine maker Wyeth. Pfizer acquired Wyeth in mid October and is consolidating its R&D program company wide. Some layoffs will occur immediately with the rest spread out through 2011. [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Ameritox is opening a new lab in Greensboro next year, bringing in 228 jobs. No date has been set yet for the lab’s opening. The company chose Greensboro because it offered “a diverse and talented work force, an abundance of top-tier educational institutions, and is well situated to help our company continue to [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 9, 2009
Stiefel Laboratories Inc. is moving it’s Atlanta operation to North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park. This move comes months after Stiefel was bought out by UK’s GlaxoSmithKline. 200 Atlanta jobs will be lost, with no word yet on how many jobs will end up in North Carolina. GlaxoSmithKline purchased Stiefel Laboratories, a global leader in [...]
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