(Credit: 60 Minutes) Cheryl Eckard The woman who blew the whistle on the production problems plaguing the now-shuttered GlaxoSmithKline plant in Cidra was interviewed on 60 Minutes on Sunday, marking the first time she has spoken publicly of the manufacturing breaches. In the report, Cheryl Eckard — a former global manager for quality assurance for […]
esearch firm Business Monitor International on Monday predicted that Puerto Rico's pharmaceutical industry will show a slight growth of 2.5 percent next year, despite the looming threat of the effects of Law 154, which starting in January levies a 4 percent excise tax on foreign corporations doing business on the island.
Private equity firm Centre Partners announced Wednesday the sale of its Bumble Bee Foods division to Lion Capital, for $980 million. The transaction includes the cannery in Mayagüez, which has been in operation since 1962. Bumble Bee is North America’s leading supplier of shelf-stable seafood under the Bumble Bee, Clover Leaf, Brunswick, Snow’s, Beach Cliff, King […]