Dubroff: Vandenberg, Cal Poly blasting off with mission to Mars
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Baxalta laying off 100 employees in Thousand Oaks
Baxalta, a biotechnology company with 1,200 employees in Thousand Oaks, is laying off 100 workers at that office on May 1. Layoffs will affect 239 Baxalta employees across the state at offices in Thousand Oaks, Los Angeles and Van Nuys, according to notices filed March 2 with the state of California. At Baxalta’s office at Read More →
Shire buying Conejo Valley’s Baxalta
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Baxalta’s fast exit shows need for corporate tax fix
Baxalta, we hardly knew ya. Just six months after it was spun off from parent Baxter International, Baxalta, a major employer in East Ventura County, is to be sold to Shire, an Irish firm. The future of some 1,200 employees in Westlake Village and the Newbury Park area of Thousand Oaks is now uncertain, as Read More →
Shire acquiring Baxalta for $32 billion
Shire PLC sweetened the pot and Baxalta Inc. investors took the bait in a deal announced early Jan. 11. Dublin-based Shire announced a $30 billion bid for Deefield, Ill.-based Baxalta on Aug. 4. On Jan. 11, the companies announced Shire will acquire Baxalta for $32 billion. Baxalta employs about 2,000 people in Thousand Oaks and Read More →
Dubroff: Washington dysfunction over taxes could cost jobs in Tri-Counties
This is a column about how dysfunction in Washington is handing billions over to Wall Street while threatening thousands of jobs on the Central Coast. Just a year ago, Allergan shut its Goleta breast implant operation after it came under siege from corporate raiders, Activis, a New Jersey-based company that used an acquisition in Ireland Read More →
