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Kyorin to Transfer Generics Unit to Daito-Led JV
Kyorin Pharmaceutical said on April 24 that it has reached a basic agreement to transfer its generics business and two manufacturing plants to a joint venture to be set up by Daito Pharmaceutical and two other unnamed partners. The planned…
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