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...team of quality-control specialists from Baxter International, the big multinational health-care company (2007 sales: $11.26 billion) based in Deerfield, Ill., arrived in Zhejiang province, China, about two hours by car from Shanghai, to inspect a facility owned by one of its key suppliers. CZ-SPL is a joint venture controlled by Scientific Protein Laboratories LLC (SPL), a Waunakee, Wis., company started in 1976 by Oscar Meyer, of hot-dog fame. (The connection: pigs naturally produce proteins used in pharmaceuticals.) CZ-SPL makes a key ingredient, what in the pharmaceutical business is called an active pharmaceutical ingredient...
...Changzhou says it relies on two companies--its joint-venture partner, Changzhou Techpool, as well as a Hangzhou-based firm, Ruihua Biomedical Products Co.--to buy its crude heparin. Strunce has described them as meticulous in ensuring the quality of the crude heparin they buy for SPL. But several small suppliers told TIME they have sold directly to SPL or have been approached by the company, looking for product. And when FDA inspectors showed up in Hangzhou this year, after reports of a spike in deaths and illness, Ruihua Biomedical stiff-armed the investigators. It refused to let them inspect...
...competition in the spring, according to Caitlin V. Crump ’10, general manager of Veritas Records.The winners of the fall round automatically qualify for the spring Battle of the Bands, which will pit acts from eight different schools in Rock Hard, a competition run in a joint venture between Veritas Records and Rolling Stone magazine. MTV will host news spots in the spring battle, which will span five night clubs and two and a half months. Crump said the winners were chosen based on online votes—which indicate the scope of a group?...
Under the terms of a deal between the clan and scientists, the land will be used for research on climate change in a joint venture that includes Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute’s Center for Tropical Forest Science...
...grown up on: full of open space and possibility, blessed with great oil reserves and immigrants from everywhere, scenically gorgeous - but tied to the go-it-alone spirit of a "last frontier." It looked as much like the America of my boyhood as Hawaii and the burger joint looked like the America of tomorrow. The kids next to us in the North Shore shack seemed much less concerned with where they came from than with where they were headed...