| Orchid to foray into canadian generic formulations mkt
The Chennai-based pharma major, Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (Orchid), today announced that it has received formal approval from the Canadian TPD (Therapeutic Product Directorate) for 2 of its ANDS (Abbreviated New Drug Submission) applications. These approvals correspond to two generic formulations, Cefoxitin and Ceftriaxone. These products are covered under the exclusive marketing arrangement that the company has with the leading Canadian generics major, Apotex. Commenting on this development Mr K Raghavendra Rao, Managing Director, Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd. said, We are happy to foray into the Canadian generic segment with these approvals. With limited competition and a niche injectable product offering, we are confident of a sustainable revenue base from Canada.
Home gardeners can lend a hand to Hmong flower farmers still ...
Everyone with a flower garden has the ability to help Hmong flower farmers recover from last Novembers devastating floods, by bringing dahlia tubers to five area nurseries on Saturday, April 14. The Hmong farmers, who came to the Northwest as refugees from the Vietnam War, have played a major role in revitalizing agriculture in King County. Their primary source of income is selling bright bouquets of dahlias and other flowers at the Pike Place Market, plus neighborhood markets throughout King County. Record floodwaters that swept through the Snoqualmie Valley in late November 2006 inundated the farms of 46 Hmong families, destroying more than $1 million worth of equipment and crops. King County, the King County Agriculture Commission, Washington State University Extension and local nurseries are helping these farmers stay in business by hosting Dahlia Day, April 14.
Golden Tulip hotel sold for 12m euros
Atlas Estates International, a company with investments on the real estate market in Central Europe, has acquired three-star hotel Golden Tulip on Calea Victoriei, according to an announcement made by the company, which is registered on the London Stock Exchange. The value of the transaction was 12 million euros, 7.5 million euros in cash and 4.5 million euros accounting for the hotel's debts to banks. According to the same source the company estimates a 1.2 million-euro operating income for the first year. Held by BNB Victoria Tower, which is controlled by a group of Israeli investors, the hotel was built in 2005 and recorded an over 80% occupancy rate last year. .
Memorial garden grows, brick by brick
Naming something permanent and public for a lost loved one is a healthy way of keeping that person's memory alive, and Twin County Hospice is offering a way to preserve those legacies for the future.Hospice social worker Toni Fowler said she hopes the community will take advantage of the organization's “Buy-A-Brick" campaign to create a lasting, high-profile structure to remember not only those who have passed on, but also to honor the living and commemorate the happy moments of life. Fowler said hospice's Healing Hearts Grief Support Group has been working for a couple of years to build a memorial garden at Twin County Regional Hospital, which would include a 60-foot memorial wall with engraved bricks purchased with donations.“People buy these bricks because it's a way to keep the person alive," Fowler explains.
Floral designer called back for encore at Oscars
Long before DiCaprio, Witherspoon or Scorsese sets foot on Oscar's red carpet, Roger Dennis of Upton, Ky., will already have made a few dozen trips over the bedazzling welcome mat of this year's Academy Awards. "Except it's covered with plastic when I'm walking on it," said Dennis, a Western Kentucky University horticulture and floral-design instructor who owns a flower shop in the small community on the Hardin-LaRue County line. He is among a cadre of 21 top floral designers from across the country who have been invited to assist with flora-culture arrangements for the 79th Academy Awards presentations at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on Feb. 25. "I only bring in designers that are of the caliber of Roger, so it's easier to hit the pavement running," said Larry Crain, president of Charisma Floats/Designs in Pasadena, Calif., which has the floral design contract with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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