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Alpharma To Sell Bulk Drug Business

February 11, 2008 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 86, Issue 6

The specialty drugmaker Alpharma has signed a deal to sell its active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) business to investment funds managed by 3i, a private equity firm, for $395 million in cash. The business, with 700 employees at plants in Europe and China, makes several fermentation-based APIs and one synthetic API. Alpharma had sales of $139 million in the first nine months of 2007.

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