France

Following a similar move in its home market of France, Sanofi-Aventis is to make more than 320 employees redundant in Germany, with most of the losses affecting staff at its office... 2006-11-03

Following incentives from the Irish government, French firm Servier is boosting its presence with a new facility in Waterford and an expansion to its plant in Arklow. The investments... 2006-10-31

Because of cost-cutting measures imposed by domestic regulators, French firm Sanofi-Aventis - Europe's leading pharmaceutical company - is to eliminate 500 jobs at its headquarters.... 2006-10-27

Demonstrating confidence in France's business environment, UK drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is to invest EUR500mn (US$637mn) in a new vaccine production plant in St Amand-Les-Eaux,... 2006-10-03

In a move that may stifle pharmaceutical R&D and subsequently the impact country's economic health, France has introduced a series of special taxes for companies applying to the... 2006-09-06

The French medicines agency - Afssaps - has expressed concerns over a rise in prescribing errors, leading to calls for the accelerated implementation of e-prescribing, which is already... 2006-08-17

French firm Sanofi-Aventis is heading for an uncertain financial future as its two best-selling drugs face generic competition in the US for the first time.

Japan's Daiichi-Sankyo is to redouble efforts to expand in Europe. Sankyo alone had sales of EUR322mn (US$406mn) in the region last year. With over 1,000 sales representatives already... 2006-07-24

Primarily because the government does not promote self-medication, sales of reimbursable drug products in the general medical sector increased 6.6% to EUR19bn (US$23.8bn) last year,... 2006-07-18

The French consume significantly more pills and have more injections than their Western European neighbours, leading to calls for the nation to stop overmedicating itself.