Lotte Biologics signs antibody drug CMO deal with UK’s Ottimo Pharma

Lotte Biologics signs antibody drug CMO deal with UK’s Ottimo Pharma

BOSTON – Lotte Biologics Co. has signed a deal to manufacture an antibody therapy for British biotech startup Ottimo Pharma as the South Korea...

S.Korea’s CDMO giant Samsung Biologics to offer CRO services

S.Korea’s CDMO giant Samsung Biologics to offer CRO services

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, will enter the contract research organization (CRO) market by leveraging its va...

Samsung Biologics drives foreign lead in Korea’s biotech supply chain

Samsung Biologics drives foreign lead in Korea’s biotech supply chain

A surge in orders from Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, has propelled South Korea to the forefront of global rev...

Samsung Biologics to spin off biosimilar unit Samsung Bioepis

Samsung Biologics to spin off biosimilar unit Samsung Bioepis

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, will undergo a strategic split to separate its contract development and manufac...

Samsung Biologics bags $514 mn CMO contract from US pharma

Samsung Biologics bags $514 mn CMO contract from US pharma

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract manufacturing organization (CMO), said on Monday it has secured a $5.14 million order from...

India: Tantalizing frontier for K-food’s global ambitions beyond China

India: Tantalizing frontier for K-food’s global ambitions beyond China

South Korea’s processed food exports to India have surged to a record 6 trillion won ($4.1 billion), marking a significant milestone in the gr...

Orion behind original Choco Pie to invest $580 million in new plants

Orion behind original Choco Pie to invest $580 million in new plants

Orion Corp., a South Korean confectionery and snack manufacturer, will inject 830 billion won ($580 million) over three years to expand snack manufa...

Chong Kun Dang to build new plant for foray into biologics market

Chong Kun Dang to build new plant for foray into biologics market

Chong Kun Dang Pharmaceutical Corp. is discussing building a research center and a plant in Siheung, about 30 kilometers southwest of Seoul, with th...

Samsung Biologics shares fly high to be Korea’s third most valuable firm

Samsung Biologics shares fly high to be Korea’s third most valuable firm

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, has become South Korea’s third most valuable stock on the country’s...

Samsung Biologics posts record 2024 sales, operating profit as it goes global

Samsung Biologics posts record 2024 sales, operating profit as it goes global

South Korea's Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, on Wednesday posted its largest-ever annual sales and operating p...

Lotte Biologics eyes first ADC CDMO order in 2025

Lotte Biologics eyes first ADC CDMO order in 2025

SAN FRANCISCO -- Lotte Biologics Co., the drug consignment development and production unit of South Korean conglomerate Lotte Group, will seek to wi...

Samsung Biologics signs $1.4 bn CMO deal with European pharma

Samsung Biologics signs $1.4 bn CMO deal with European pharma

South Korea's Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, said on Tuesday it signed a $1.4 billion contract manufacturing o...

Samsung Biologics signs initial deal with LigaChem Bio on ADC production

Samsung Biologics signs initial deal with LigaChem Bio on ADC production

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, said on Thursday it has signed an initial agreement with LigaChem Biosciences I...

Samsung Biologics wins $668 million CDMO deal with European pharma

Samsung Biologics wins $668 million CDMO deal with European pharma

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s largest contract drugmaker, said on Wednesday it has signed two drug manufacturing contracts worth a combin...

Orion seeks M&As, facility expansion with dividends from China, Vietnam

Orion seeks M&As, facility expansion with dividends from China, Vietnam

Orion Holdings Corp., a leading South Korean confectionery and snack maker, has been active in overseas markets for decades, particularly in China a...

IMBiologics transfers autoimmune disease drug tech to Huadong Pharma

IMBiologics transfers autoimmune disease drug tech to Huadong Pharma

South Korea's antibody-based biotech company IMBiologics announced on Friday that it signed a contract to transfer the technology of its autoimmune ...

Biotech stocks, foreigners’ top pick in Korea amid panic selling

Biotech stocks, foreigners’ top pick in Korea amid panic selling

Foreigners and institutional investors in the South Korean stock market picked biotechs as their favorite shares in hopes of a biopharma stock jump ...

Orion to collaborate with Vietnam on potato seed

Orion to collaborate with Vietnam on potato seed

South Korea’s Orion Corp. announced on Monday that it is strengthening its collaboration with the Institute of Agro-Biology, the Vietnam Natio...

Samsung’s biotech duo on a roll with $1.1 bn CMO order

Samsung’s biotech duo on a roll with $1.1 bn CMO order

Samsung Group is on track to rise to the top of biosimilar companies in the world and become South Korea’s largest drug maker for contract man...

Lotte Biologics targets $1.1 billion in sales with new bio plants

Lotte Biologics targets $1.1 billion in sales with new bio plants

South Korean biopharmaceutical company Lotte Biologics Co. said on Wednesday it is aiming for 1.5 trillion won ($1.1 billion) in annual sales by 203...

Samsung Biologics eyes windfall gain amid US-China row

Samsung Biologics eyes windfall gain amid US-China row

SAN DIEGO – Samsung Biologics Co. is enjoying a stream of contract development and manufacturing order inquiries from big pharmaceutical compa...

Korea’s Orion to ship bottled water to China to challenge Evian

Korea’s Orion to ship bottled water to China to challenge Evian

Orion Holdings Corp., the holding company of South Korea’s confectionary and snack maker Orion Corp., is set to export bottled water to China,...

Samsung Biologics signs ADC CDO deal with LegoChem Bio

Samsung Biologics signs ADC CDO deal with LegoChem Bio

Samsung Biologics Co. has agreed with South Korean biotech company LegoChem Biosciences Inc. to provide contract development organization (CDO) serv...

Orion, VNUA to team up for potato production

Orion, VNUA to team up for potato production

South Korea’s confectionery and snack maker Orion Corp. announced on Friday that it signed a strategic partnership agreement with the Institut...

Lotte Biologics, NJ Bio to jointly develop ADC

Lotte Biologics, NJ Bio to jointly develop ADC

South Korea's Lotte Biologics Co. announced on Monday that it has signed a strategic business agreement with NJ Bio, a US-based preclinical and clin...

Orion to buy control of biotech startup LegoChem for $415 mn

Orion to buy control of biotech startup LegoChem for $415 mn

South Korea’s snack and confectionery maker Orion Group has agreed to buy a controlling stake in LegoChem Biosciences Inc., a Korean biotech s...

Samsung Biologics reaches record-breaking annual orders

Samsung Biologics reaches record-breaking annual orders

Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s top contract manufacturing organization (CMO) by capacity, surpassed the annual contract manufacturing orde...

Lotte builds US antibody-drug conjugate plant with $82 mn

Lotte builds US antibody-drug conjugate plant with $82 mn

South Korea’s Lotte Biologics Co. is establishing an antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) factory in Syracuse, New York, with an investment of 110 bi...

Samsung Biologics eyes new drugmaker acquisitions

Samsung Biologics eyes new drugmaker acquisitions

BARCELONA -- Samsung Biologics Co., the world’s top contract manufacturing organization by capacity, is looking for acquisitions of new drugma...

Samsung Biologics partners with Europe's largest VC

Samsung Biologics partners with Europe's largest VC

Samsung Biologics Co., the world's largest contract drug manufacturer, announced on Tuesday it has teamed up with global biotech venture capitalist ...

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