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Pfizer ReEnters Poultry Vaccines
November 20, 2006
| A version of this story appeared in
Volume 84, Issue 47
Pfizer Animal Health has agreed to purchase Embrex, an agricultural biotechnology company, in a stock deal valued at $155 million. Embrex' lead product, Inovoject, is a technology to deliver poultry vaccine. "This acquisition represents an excellent opportunity to leverage Embrex' innovative technologies and for Pfizer to reenter the poultry business," says Juan Ramon Alaix, president of Pfizer Animal Health. The company flew the coop in 2000 when it sold its feed additives operations. Pfizer, which has been pursuing human vaccine acquisitions since 2004, purchased PowderMed, a supplier of vaccine delivery technology, in October.
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