May 17, 2013
J.K. WallRoche Diagnostics Corp. is considering a sale of its blood-glucose meter business, a move that would cast uncertainty over
the nearly 1,000 people working for its diabetes business in Indianapolis.
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January 18, 2013
Roche Diagnostics Corp. in Indianapolis ranks 89th on the magazine's latest "Best Companies to Work For" list and was the
only Indiana-based company selected.
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October 22, 2012
J.K. WallRoche officials said last week that price competition and lower reimbursement rates are forcing it to make an unspecified
number of cuts in its U.S. sales force and at its research and development hubs in Indianapolis and Germany.
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March 29, 2012
IBJ StaffRoche Diagnostics Corp. plans to eliminate about 80 information technology jobs at its Indianapolis-area campus over the next
two years, the company said Thursday morning.
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February 6, 2012
J.K. WallRoche Diagnostics Corp.’s North American business, which is headquartered in Indianapolis, posted a 4-percent boost
in sales last year on the strength of its fluid analyzer business unit, even though its diabetes sales fell.
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January 16, 2012
J.K. WallThe OK for a new blood glucose monitor comes more than two years after FDA officials declined to approve a previous version
of the Nano, which in rare cases generated inflated blood sugar readings because it did not distinguish properly between the
sugars glucose and maltose.
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December 27, 2011
J.K. WallIt’s hard to believe now, but as recently as two years ago, Indianapolis was close to losing its 15th-largest employer.
Roche Diagnostics Corp. was looking seriously at moving its 2,900-employee North American headquarters out of Indianapolis.
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December 20, 2011
Scott OlsonA Hamilton Superior Court judge awarded damages to the local supermarket chain in a soured sublease deal it signed with Roche
Diagnostics in March 2008.
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November 7, 2011
J.K. WallRoche Diagnostics will partner with a San Diego firm to incorporate its continuous glucose monitoring sensor with a wireless
handheld device Roche is developing to help diabetics test their blood sugar and track their glucose levels throughout the
day.
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September 19, 2011
J.K. WallExecutives at Roche Diagnostics expect the wave of austerity measures being taken by western governments—including the
United States—to as much as double its sales of fluid- and DNA-based tests in the next three years.
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August 22, 2011
J.K. WallNew drug for metastatic melanoma packaged with genetic test should help Roche sell more of its cobas 4800 laboratory testing
systems.
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June 10, 2011
IBJ StaffSwiss health care giant Roche Holding AG has selected its diagnostics division in Indianapolis as the site for a new North
America human resources center, a move that will add 50 employees to its local operations.
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June 1, 2011
J.K. WallRoche Diagnostics Corp. landed an $11.4 million contract to provide laboratory testing services at military hospitals in the
Washington, D.C., area.
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April 25, 2011
J.K. WallRoche Diagnostics Corp. won regulatory approval for a new HPV test, giving it a technological edge in the $300 million market
for automated cervical cancer tests.
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March 12, 2011
J.K. WallDelays getting new diabetes meters into the U.S. market appear to have tripped up Roche Diagnostics Corp. on its way to acquiring
a key software vendor.
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February 12, 2011
J.K. WallRoche Diagnostics Corp. is expanding one of its Indianapolis manufacturing plants to keep up with growing sales of its leading
brand of blood glucose monitors.
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February 2, 2011
J.K. WallThe December sale of Carmel-based Marcadia Biotech to Roche garnered at least $287 million—and as much as $537 million—for
the company’s owners and could lead the Marcadia management team to launch a firm using one of Marcadia’s experimental diabetes
medicines.
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January 12, 2011
J.K. WallRoche Diagnostics requested a temporary restraining order against Medical Automation Systems Inc. Tuesday after receiving
word the company is speeding up plans to sell itself to Roche rival Alere Inc.
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January 7, 2011
J.K. WallThe Swiss company, which operates its North American business out of Indianapolis, filed a lawsuit late last month against
Virginia-based Medical Automation Systems Inc. for breaching the purchase agreement the companies signed back in October.
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October 14, 2010
Terms of the deal, announced on Wednesday, call for Roche to acquire all the assets associated with Medical Automation Systems
Inc.'s point-of-care information technology connectivity system.
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August 11, 2010
J.K. WallRoche Diagnostics, a Swiss company that keeps its U.S. headquarters in Indianapolis, has been sued for marking its Accu-Chek
blood glucose monitors and accessories with patents that are expired. Illinois resident David O’Neill has sued on behalf
of the U.S. government to recover damages of $500 per infraction.
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July 14, 2010
J.K. WallTwo Indianapolis giants—Eli Lilly and Co. and Roche Diagnostics—are working hard to pair up drugs and diagnostic
tests to gin up more sales.
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June 16, 2010
J.K. WallMedical technology companies employed 19,950 Hoosiers in 2007 and supported another 35,000 jobs in supplier companies, according
to an analysis funded by an industry trade group.
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February 13, 2010
J.K. WallPolymer Technology Systems Inc., a small Indianapolis-based maker of handheld blood monitors, has gone to court to fight
a competitor more than 100 times its size: Roche Diagnostics Corp.
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January 12, 2010
J.K. WallRoche Diagnostics named a new CEO for its North American operations Tuesday to replace Michael Tillmann, who resigned on Friday.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.