GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has reinforced its commitment to Pakistan by announcing it will increase investment in consumer healthcare brands over the next five years. It will do so via the introduction of new brands in its Wellness, Oral Health and Nutrition portfolios; said John Sayers, Presi-dent of GSK Consumer Health for Asia, Pacific, Latin America, Africa [...]

3M has won the prestigious QCI–DL Shah National Award on Economics of Quality, awarded by the Quality Council of India. The award was presented to 3M India by Minister for Tourism, Subodh Kant Sahey at the 7th National Quality Conclave, held in New Delhi. 3M has bagged the prestigious award under the ‘Large Scale Manufacturing [...]

Close on the heels of the Centre clearing the Rs 594- crore Integrated Vaccine Com-plex (IVC) in Tamil Nadu, HLL Lifecare Ltd, a mini-Ratna PSU, has floated a wholly-owned subsidiary — HLL Biotech Ltd — to execute the project that aims to boost the country’s vaccine security. The first phase of IVC, which would come [...]

Brocade, the leader in fabric-based data center networking solutions, is continuing to innovate and gain market leadership for its award-winning family of Fibre Channel SAN fabric solutions based on the new 16 Gbps Fibre Channel standard. The company today announced a new entry-level Fibre Channel SAN switch, the Brocade® 6505 Switch, to broaden its full [...]

Total global pharma promotional spending fell 3.4 percent to $92.2 billion in 2011, according to Cege-dim Strategic Data, led by a 4.7 percent decline in detailing spend. Pfizer remains the industry’s top promotional spender, despite a 12 percent drop in spending to $6 bil-lion in 2011. That puts the New York firm well ahead of [...]