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AstraZeneca Pharma India received permission from India's drug regulator to import and market its antibody-drug conjugate Trastuzumab deruxtecan, sold as Enhertu, for a new indication: first-line treatment of unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive breast cancer in adults, in combination with pertuzumab. The approval from the Central Drugs Standard Control Organization expands the drug's eligible patient pool in India beyond any previously cleared indications. Enhertu is a globally established therapy that generated over $3 billion in sales worldwide in the last financial year. The company said the permission paves the way for marketing the drug for the specified indication, subject to any related statutory approvals.

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June 11 (Reuters) - Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd ASTR.NS:

• ASTRAZENECA PHARMA - RECEIVED PERMISSION TO IMPORT FOR SALE OF TRASTUZUMAB DERUXTECAN

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** Biopharma company Astrazeneca Pharma India's shares ASTR.NS fall as much as 6.76% to 8,357 rupees apiece

** This is stock's steepest intraday decline in two months

** ASTR posts a 23% year-on-year drop in March quarter profit; operating profit slips 29.5%

** Stock is most active in six weeks, with a trading volume of 35,516 shares as of 12:17 p.m. IST, more than quadruple the 30-day average volume, data compiled by LSEG shows

** ASTR shares are down 5.8% in 2026 so far, according to exchange data

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May 26 (Reuters) - Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd ASTR.NS:

• ASTRAZENECA PHARMA INDIA LTD - RECOMMENDS DIVIDEND OF 36 RUPEES PER EQUITY SHARE FOR FY2025-26

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March 17 (Reuters) - Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd ASTR.NS:

• RECEIVES PERMISSION TO IMPORT DURVALUMAB (IMFINZI) FOR ADDITIONAL INDICATION

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Feb 11 (Reuters) - Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd ASTR.NS:

• ASTRAZENECA PHARMA INDIA DEC-QUARTER PAT 325.9 MILLION RUPEES

• ASTRAZENECA PHARMA INDIA DEC-QUARTER REVENUE FROM OPERATIONS 6.12 BILLION RUPEES

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Feb 10 (Reuters) - Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd ASTR.NS:

• ASTRAZENECA PHARMA INDIA LTD - RECEIVES PERMISSION TO IMPORT DURVALUMAB

• ASTRAZENECA PHARMA - PERMISSION PAVES WAY FOR MARKETING OF DURVALUMAB SOLUTION IN INDIA

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Sept 12 (Reuters) - Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd ASTR.NS:

• ASTRAZENECA PHARMA INDIA - GETS SHOW CAUSE NOTICE FROM NATIONAL PHARMACEUTICAL PRICING AUTHORITY

• ASTRAZENECA PHARMA INDIA LTD - NPPA ALLEGES OVERCHARGING FOR 'SYMBICORT TURBUHALER'

• ASTRAZENECA PHARMA INDIA LTD - CLAIM QUANTUM 605 MILLION RUPEES

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Sept 2 (Reuters) - Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd ASTR.NS:

• SURRENDERS MANUFACTURING LICENSE

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** Shares of AstraZeneca Pharma India ASTR.NS jump as much as 4.8% to 8,825 rupees

** Stock marks biggest intraday pct gain since June 2

** Biopharmaceutical co posts profit of 558.3 million rupees ($6.37 million) in June quarter, compared to a loss of about 118 million rupees a year ago

** More than 53,148 shares change hands, 2x of 30-day avg

** Stock up 20% YTD

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June 26 (Reuters) - Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd ASTR.NS:

• ASTRAZENECA: EXPANDS BANGALORE GLOBAL HUB IN INDIA WITH 1.66 BILLION RUPEES INVESTMENT

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June 9 (Reuters) - Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd ASTR.NS:

• ASTRAZENECA PHARMA INDIA LTD - SANJEEV KUMAR PANCHAL HAS OFFERED TO RESIGN AS MD

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** AstraZeneca Pharma India ASTR.NS shares up 11.5% at 8,885 rupees, marking their biggest pct jump so far this year

** ASTR on Friday reported 48% surge in Q4 profit on strong performance of oncology and biopharma divisions

** AstraZeneca shares up 21.6% YTD vs 8.8% fall in Nifty pharma index .NIPHARM

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May 29 (Reuters) - Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd ASTR.NS:

• RECEIVES PERMISSION TO IMPORT OSIMERTINIB TABLETS

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May 8 (Reuters) - Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd ASTR.NS:

• RECEIVES APPROVAL FOR ENHERTU IN INDIA

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April 15 (Reuters) - Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd ASTR.NS:

• SURRENDERS MARKETING AUTHORISATION FOR OLAPARIB TABLETS

• DISCONTINUATION DUE TO COMMERCIAL REASONS, NOT EFFICACY OR SAFETY

• HOLDS ALL OTHER PERMISSIONS FOR OLAPARIB IN INDIA

• NEVER MARKETED OLAPARIB INDICATION IN INDIA

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March 28 (Reuters) - Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd ASTR.NS:

• DISCONTINUING MANUFACTURING, MARKETING OF PROLONGED RELEASE ISOSORBIDE-5-MONONITRATE TABLETS BP

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** AstraZeneca Pharma India ASTR.NS rises 2.1% to 7,622.9 rupees, highest in about a month

** Biopharmaceutical co receives Indian drug regulator's permission to import Durvalumab solution for sale, distribution

** Drug is used to treat patients with a certain type of lung cancer

** Shares trading above 50-, 100-, 200-day moving avg

** ASTR up 2.2% YTD, after gaining 32% in 2024

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March 7 (Reuters) - Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd ASTR.NS:

• RECEIVES PERMISSION TO IMPORT DURVALUMAB SOLUTION

• PERMISSION PAVES WAY FOR MARKETING DURVALUMAB SOLUTION IN INDIA

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March 6 (Reuters) - Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd ASTR.NS:

• RECEIVES PERMISSION TO IMPORT PHARMACEUTICAL FORMULATIONS OF LOKELMA

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** AstraZeneca Pharma ASTR.NS rises 2.7% to 6,872.1 rupees; stock's biggest one-day gain since Feb. 3

** Biopharmaceutical co receives Indian drug regulator's permission to import Durvalumab solution for sale, distribution

** Drug is used to treat patients with a certain type of liver cancer

** Shares mark second-busiest session in about 2 weeks, with more than 11,000 shares traded

** Stock down 8% so far this year, after a 32% gain from 2024

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Feb 28 (Reuters) - Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd ASTR.NS:

• RECEIVES PERMISSION TO IMPORT DURVALUMAB FOR ADDITIONAL INDICATION

• GETS PERMISSION FROM CENTRAL DRUGS STANDARD CONTROL ORGANISATION, INDIA

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** Astrazeneca Pharma India ASTR.NS rises 2% to 7,609 rupees

** Q3 profit before exceptional item and tax jumps ~3.7x y/y, helped by strong demand for its oncology products; rev up 44%

** Co incurred one-off 335.5 million rupees ($3.9 mln) employee separation cost in the quarter

** More than 41,000 shares traded, 1.5x the 30-day avg

** Stock rose 32% in 2024

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Feb 11 (Reuters) - Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd ASTR.NS:

• DEC-QUARTER PAT 308.5 MILLION RUPEES

• DEC-QUARTER REVENUE FROM OPERATIONS 4.4 BILLION RUPEES

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LONDON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Pharma giant AstraZeneca urged Britain to improve the environment for businesses in order to drive investment, days after it scrapped plans to build a 450 million pound ($558.86 million) vaccine plant because of a cut to government support.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer's plan to stimulate growth in Britain's stagnant economy by attracting business investment was given a painful reality check last week when AstraZeneca, the country's most valuable listed company, cancelled the expansion of an existing facility in Speke, northern England.

The chief executive of AstraZeneca said Britain needed to offer better incentives to secure investment, highlighting the "very competitive world" in which companies operate.

"The UK needs to continue working on improving the investment environment to attract investment," CEO Pascal Soriot told reporters as the company announced annual results on Thursday.

He said AstraZeneca was offered "substantial support" by other governments, like Singapore, to build facilities.

For its part, Britain blamed AstraZeneca for scaling back its research and development plans for the now cancelled expansion, which would have made next-generation vaccines. As a result, the finance ministry cut the support on offer.

AstraZeneca said it remained "very committed" to Britain despite pulling the Speke plan and is spending 200 million pounds expanding its Cambridge site.

"We as a company continue to work very closely with the government to support the life sciences strategy to try and improve the overall environment, to attract investment," Soriot said.

He said the lower level of government support meant the business case for Speke no longer worked. Science department minister Chris Bryant said earlier this week the difference in funding between what was originally offered and the final proposal was "remarkably small".

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LONDON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - AstraZeneca AZN.L investors will look past another strong set of quarterly results on Thursday to focus on the main issue overhanging shares: an investigation of a top executive by authorities in China, one of its key markets.

The group said on Oct. 31 that its China head Leon Wang, who also led its international business as an executive vice president, had been detained by the Chinese authorities. It said it did not know what the investigation was about.

Unless the company discloses fresh information about the probe and arrest at the release of fourth-quarter results, investors are likely to resume selling the stock even though the company's drug pipeline is viewed as strong, four healthcare investors and four analysts told Reuters.

"This blindsided the company," said AstraZeneca shareholder Lucy Coutts at investment firm JM Finn, noting the "void" of information about the probe.

"We don't have visibility on how or when this will be resolved," said Redburn Atlantic analyst Simon Baker. "This is the focus at the moment. It shouldn't be, but it is."

Wang's arrest was followed by other revelations, including that more than 100 former sales staff in China had been sentenced to jail time in a large and ongoing medical insurance fraud case.

In November the company reported a third investigation in China involving two current and two former senior executives, relating to the import of AstraZeneca cancer drugs from Hong Kong. It said the probe targeted only the individuals, not the company.

AstraZeneca declined to comment for this article ahead of results.

China has long been a key market for the drugmaker, the crown jewel of its international business that accounted for 13% of total sales in 2023.

The Anglo-Swedish group announced plans in 2023 to build a $450 million factory in China. It signed several licensing deals with Chinese companies that year, and bought a China-headquartered biotech company.

Chief Financial Officer Aradhana Sarin told investors at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference last month the company anticipates some revenue impact on its China business in the fourth quarter and into 2025. Investors are hoping for more information on Thursday.

SMALL RECOVERY

AstraZeneca shares have recovered after the initial news of Wang's detention wiped around $18 billion off their value. They are up about 2% since early November.

In December, AstraZeneca replaced Wang with senior executive Iskra Reic as executive vice president for international, based in Shanghai.

Several investors said it may be tough for an executive who does not speak Mandarin and has never lived in China to navigate such a complicated market at a very sensitive time.

Barclays analysts said in a recent note they believe AstraZeneca may pay a penalty to resolve the Wang investigation. In 2014, British drugmaker GSK GSK.L was fined nearly 300 million pounds ($372 million) by a Chinese court for bribery.

"Whilst there could be some commercial impact coming from lack of promotion whilst the investigation is ongoing, we view this as digestible given the momentum elsewhere in the business," Barclays said.

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Feb 4 (Reuters) - Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE index is seen opening lower on Tuesday, with futures FFIc1 down 0.18%.

* DIAGEO: Diageo DGE.L withdrew its medium-term organic sales growth target, citing macroeconomic and geopolitical uncertainty.

* VODAFONE: Vodafone VOD.L reported another deterioration in Germany in its third quarter, a weak point amid otherwise stronger trading in Britain, Turkey and Africa.

* CREST NICHOLSON: Housebuilder Crest Nicholson CRST.L posted a 53% drop in 2024 fiscal year earnings, in line with market view.

* TULLOW OIL: Tullow Oil TLW.L said it has appointed its finance chief Richard Miller as interim chief executive officer, effective Feb. 14.

* RIO TINTO: Rio Tinto RIO.AX, RIO.L said on Tuesday it had begun clearing iron ore ships from two Western Australian ports as two tropical cyclones offshore swell seas and complicate efforts to repair infrastructure damaged by a previous cyclone last month.

* AstraZeneca: Britain on Monday hit back at AstraZeneca AZN.L over the collapse of a 450 million pound ($558.5 million) investment, saying it had scaled back the research and development portion of its plans, resulting in a lower offer of government support.

* GENERAL PHARMACEUTICAL COUNCIL: Britain's pharmacies regulator tightened rules for online pharmacies' prescribing obesity drugs, ordering them to make changes to prevent people from receiving drugs that could cause them harm.

* OIL: U.S. crude prices fell by nearly 2% as U.S. tariffs on China took effect

* METALS: LME copper prices edged higher after a sharp pullback in the previous session

* GOLD: Gold prices firmed as U.S. tariff and inflation concerns boosted safe-haven demand.

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LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters) - AstraZeneca AZN.L on Friday scrapped plans to invest 450 million pounds ($558.3 million) in its vaccine manufacturing plant in northern England, citing a cut in British government support.

The decision to ditch the development of an existing facility in the Speke area of Liverpool comes at a time when Prime Minister Keir Starmer is pushing hard to drum up investment in Britain to generate economic growth.

"Following discussions with the current government, we are no longer pursuing our planned investment at Speke," a spokesperson for the London-listed bluechip drugmaker said in a statement.

"Several factors have influenced this decision, including the timing and reduction of the final offer compared to the previous government's proposal."

Earlier this week finance minister Rachel Reeves named AstraZeneca as one of the "great companies" she said were delivering jobs and investment across the country.

Her speech, focused on how to get the country's stagnant economy growing again, set out the importance of attracting investment and said the government was "determined to make Britain the best place in the world to invest".

The spokesperson for AstraZeneca, which also plans to spend 200 million pounds to expand its existing Cambridge presence, said the Liverpool site would continue to produce flu vaccines.

Over the past year, the company has set out billions of dollars worth of investment in various countries, from Singapore and Thailand to France and Canada.

The most notable among those was the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker's $2 billion spending proposal on research and development and manufacturing plants in the United States.

Britain's finance ministry said a change in "the make-up" of the investment originally proposed by AstraZeneca had led to a reduced government grant offer being made.

"All government grant funding has to demonstrate value for the taxpayer and unfortunately, despite extensive work from government officials, it has not been possible to achieve a solution," a government spokesperson said.

The Financial Times reported in August 2024 that AstraZeneca had warned it could relocate its vaccine manufacturing site from Britain to the United States as talks with the Labour government over state aid had become deadlocked.

The newspaper said Reeves wanted to reduce state provisions to the company's vaccine centre, which would cut the pledge made by the previous administration from about 90 million pounds to 40 million pounds.

The previous government's offer included up to 70 million in grants to develop the facility in Speke, the FT report said.

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Jan 7 (Reuters) - Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd ASTR.NS:

• RECEIVES ORDER FROM TRANSFER PRICING OFFICER

• CLAIM QUANTUM IS 119.6 MILLION RUPEES

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** Shares of Astrazeneca Pharma India Ltd ASTR.NS jump 8.3% to 6,888.90 rupees, set for its best day in 3 months

** Drugmaker confirms job losses in its biopharma unit but does not disclose number of employees affected

** The Economic Times daily reported earlier in the day that about 125 employees, or half of the biopharma unit's workforce, is being laid off

** About 194,000 shares traded, 14.6x 30-day avg volume

** Stock extends YTD gains to ~25%, set for third-straight year of growth

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