PharmaMedDevice connects industry leaders; offers attendees valuable insight.
Industry leaders from the medical device, pharmaceutical and biologic communities recently gathered at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York, NY for the first PharmaMedDevice conference, held by Reed Life Sciences of Norwalk, CT. Programs and speakers offered insight on the FDA regulatory environment for combination...

33. Phoenix Brands.
Stamford, CT 203.975.0351 Sales: $275 million Sales: $275 million (estimated). Key Personnel: Mark Landry, president. Major Products: Rit fabric dyes, Niagara spray starch, Final Touch fabric softener and Sunlight dish detergent. New Products: Fab, Dynamo, Arctic Power,...

Singer Sewing sold for $134.6 million.
NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (Reuters) Singer Sewing Co., one of the worlds best-known sewing machine makers, has been sold by Singer NV to KSIN Holdings Ltd., an affiliate of private merchant banking firm Kohlberg & Co., for about $134.3 million in cash and debt, KSIN said on Friday. ...

Arcade acquired by investment firm.
Arcade Marketing, headquartered in New York, NY, will become a unit of a newly-created specialty printing and marketing services enterprise co-owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and DLJ Merchant Banking Partners, an affiliate of Credit Suisse First Boston's alternative capital division (DLJMBP). The new group...

Spencer Stuart/Directors & Boards Directors Roster.
1-800-ATTORNEY INC. 186 Attorneys.com Court Lake Helen, FL 32744 has added to its board: George R. Boltres Jr. Partner TIEDEMANN INVESTMENT GROUP 535 Madison Avenue, 37th Floor New York, NY 10022 Bio Notes: In present...

Hercules sells minority share to J.M. Huber.
* Hercules Inc. will sell its minority position in CP Kelco to J.M. Huber Corp. The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to close during the first quarter of this year. "In terms of our day-to-day operations, this announcement and resulting sale of Hercules'...

Raymedica's back pain device wins clearance for further study.
Raymedica Inc said it won authorization from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to include the PDN-Solo prosthetic disc nucleus device in its US clinical study. The study will enrol patients with chronic low back pain, caused by degenerative disc disease, who have not responded well to non-surgical...

Guerrillophilia & the sincerely frivolous.
Not long ago in Paris, I went to see a laudatory full-length documentary film about General Massoud, the former commander of the Afghan Northern Alliance. The commercial chances of the film had been much improved by the assassination of Massoud shortly before its release, and those who had seen...

Foreign banks: what do we know?
In their twenty years since their entry into Australia, foreign bank performance has been considered a failure. This paper will canvass this and related issues and argue that some of these perceptions may have been based upon inappropriate expectations. It will be argued that the foreign banks have been...

Getting the message across.
At last the message is getting through. "There is no area in Kleinwort Benson business that we are not prepared to modify and to construct according to Islamic banking principles. Nothing we do we are not willing to change in cooperation with the Islamic banks," says Richard Duncan, Head...