Despite what it called a “significant fall” in sales in the third fiscal quarter ended the 30th of June, CyBio AG (Jena, Germany) remained in
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Merck KGaA (Darmstadt, Germany) reported a revenues growth of 16% for the second quarter of calendar 2010 to €2.21 billion ($2.83 billion at €0.78 = $1), with net profits going up 69% to €183.4 million compared to the same period in 2009. In the same period, the Performance & Life Science Chemicals (PLSC) division, incorporating Merck’s stake in the separation markets with columns for high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), in addition to laboratory buffers and reagents, increased its sales by 21% to €360 million, more than doubling its operating result to €47 million.
For the first six months of 2010 the whole group increased its net profits by 127% to €374.8 million on revenues of €4.31 billion, which grew only 14% over the same period in 2009. PLSC grew its revenues by 17% to €706 million, while its operating results went up 142% to €102 million. Excluding revenues from Millipore, which has been integrated in July this years (see pg 2), Merck management expects PLSC to increase its 2010 revenues by 15% over 2009 (€1.20 billion), while its operating result should double from €97 million in 2009.
Merck employed just over 34,000 staff at the end of the first six month, up by almost 1,000 since the beginning of the year.
Merck KGaA
(Performance & Life Science Chemicals; PLSC)
Jan-Jun Jan-Jun
Sales Operating results
2010 2009 change 2010 2009 change
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706 586 17% 102 42 142%
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(Figures in € millions)
Sales of the Chemicals division of Showa Denko KK (Tokyo, Japan) in the second calendar quarter dropped
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Reversing last year’s trend, strong Japanese and Asian demand for industrial instruments offset flat bioscience instrumentation sales for Nikon Corp (Tokyo, Japan) in its
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The profit of PerkinElmer Inc (Waltham, MA) more than doubled in the second quarter of
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Despite relatively flat sales, laboratory distribution giant VWR International LLC (West Chester, PA) returned to profitability with earnings of
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Scientific informatics software firm Accelrys Inc (San Diego, CA), in its first report following the completion of its $179 million strategic merger with Symyx Technologies Inc (Santa Clara, CA) on the 1st of July this year, said that
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The $410 million purchase of Axygen Bioscience (see IN 2 (1) 8) last September continued to boost sales of Corning Life Sciences, the laboratory glass division of Corning Inc (Corning, NY), in the
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Despite only modest sales growth and almost $9.1 million in restructuring costs related to the company’s relocation of its Small Dualbeam™ instrument line from the Netherlands to the Czech Republic, a one-time $13.5 million tax benefit allowed FEI Co (Hillsboro, OR) to more than
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In the calendar second quarter, OI Corp (College Station, TX) reported continued improvements in both of its businesses, driving its sales up 32% year-on-year
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