Mer­ck touts Phase III da­ta for an­tibac­te­r­i­al Re­car­brio; Sanofi to ax 200 jobs in Japan — re­port

→ Ac­cord­ing to an anony­mous source who re­port­ed to Reuters, French drug­mak­er Sanofi plans to ax 200 jobs in Japan across sales, reg­u­la­to­ry af­fairs and op­er­a­tions. This adds to the on­go­ing plans of re­or­ga­ni­za­tion by re­search chief John Reed. Back in June, the com­pa­ny an­nounced it would be plac­ing 466 jobs in France and Ger­many on the chop­ping block and trim­ming of their staff in the US by of­fer­ing em­ploy­ees an “ear­ly ex­it”. A Sanofi rep­re­sen­ta­tive added, “Sanofi Japan plans to im­ple­ment a vol­un­tary re­tire­ment pro­gramme in or­der to adapt to the ex­ter­nal en­vi­ron­ment changes and to trans­form our busi­ness mod­els to con­tin­ue our growth.”

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