UDG Healthcare has €503m war chest to fund takeovers

Shares in UDG Healthcare jumped about 6pc at one stage yesterday after the company said that revenue had risen 5pc to €2.1bn in the financial year to the end of September, while adjusted operating profit rose 9pc to €102.6m. The group was spurred by its Ashfield and Sharp Packaging divisions.

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Local World take on Facebook and Google

Three of the UK’s four large regional newspaper groups are to pool their digital advertising space, giving brands access to more than 50 million online readers as they attempt to fight back against the drain of ad spend to tech companies such as Microsoft, Google and Facebook

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Reed to buy US healthcare data business to boost Lexis Nexis

EUROPE’S largest media group Reed Elsevier yesterday agreed to buy a US healthcare data firm, in a deal City A.M. understands to be worth around $150m (£95.27m), to boost its Lexis Nexis business in the world’s largest healthcare market. Health Market Science is data supplier for healthcare profes­sion­als in the US with a vast medical […]

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