Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Boehringer Ingelheim - a word to the wise

German pharmaceuticals company Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH Tuesday said it doesn't plan to buy a major rival, such as Altana AG (AAA) or Serono .

"We don't need the revenue. It's not our strategy to buy companies of such a size," said Alessandro Banchi, chairman of the board of managing directors, at the company's annual general meeting.

Insiders view: Hey Alessandro, wake up and smell the coffee! You are not the hunter, you are the prey!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

How can Boehringer be the "prey" when they are a privately held company?

Anonymous said...

Everything has its price!

Takover specialists love "family firms".....it's soooo easy to divide and conquer!

Anonymous said...

I'm sure if they were thinking of selling, they would have sold out to Pfizer a few years ago when they were working on the Spiriva agreement.

If Pfizer couldn't do it back in those days, I doubt any other company will be able to "court" the Boehringer family into selling.

Anonymous said...

Boehringer should sell as their best days are behind them

Anonymous said...

Anonym hat gesagt…
Boehringer should sell as their best days are behind them


Do they really?

http://www.boehringer-ingelheim.com/corporate/annual/annualrep.htm

;-)