By Jorge Mercado Senior Staff Writer Thousand Oaks-based Amgen has announced its largest acquisition in company history, $27 billion for Horizon Therapeutics, positioning itself with a pipeline of treatments that could pay dividends over the coming decades. Amgen, one of the largest biotechnology companies in the world, beat out competition from Sanofi and Johnson and Read More →
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By Mark Miller Special to The Business Times Laugh and the world laughs with you. Maybe. Own a comedy club and you struggle during a pandemic. Perhaps no small businesses depend more on tightly packing large numbers of customers into small spaces and mightily attempting to provoke them to forcefully aspirate into the air than Read More →
By Abigail Knapp Special The Business Times On a recent Wednesday, six food trucks circled up for a weekly “food truck rally” in San Luis Obispo, serving lunch-goers from the back lot of The Kitchen Terminal, a commercial kitchen. “People love getting different types of food in one walk,” said the Kitchen Terminal co-founder Sunita Read More →
Thousand Oaks-based Amgen today announced its largest acquisition in company history, $27 billion for Horizon Therapeutics, positioning itself with a pipeline of treatments that could pay dividends over the coming decades. Amgen, one of the largest biotechnology companies in the world, beat out competition from Sanofi and Johnson and Johnson, both of whom bowed out Read More →
During its 42 years as a biotech company based in Thousand Oaks, Amgen has fiercely protected its independence, while rising to the top ranks of pharma companies, often by acquiring companies with drugs. The blockbuster transaction announced on Dec. 12 to acquire Horizon Therapeutics fits that growth pattern and it matches up with the company’s Read More →
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