Very sad news about the share price. The price reflects the total incompetence of SS. He has managed to remain in power despite a dismal track record of making one bad hiring decision after another. Severin is an extraordinarily arrogant man. Unfortunately he will have to be humbled in the brutal environment of the market place. Roche should cut their losses and fire him ASAP.

The Roche share price continues to be pummeled...and today fell below their 52 week low!

Agree.

Duplication of test offering will result in some consolidation of testing. The result would likey be less systems sold, but reagent sales should remain around the same (assuming that there is sufficient test capacity with the current installed base). i don't see much of an affect though, as genzymes testing was less routine commodity Dx and more routine esooteric and reference lab type testing.

What is the effect, if any, of LabCorp buying Genzyme Genetics

Article in C&EN (09/13/10)
New Roche Program Signals Staff Cuts - "Roche is embarking on a cost-cutting and productivity enhancement program that it intends to begin implementing in 2011. The company says it will review its operations and announce the plan's impact on staffing levels later this year. ....

This is a polite reminder that RMD Pleasanton days are numbered. Pleasanton's activities will soon be absorbed into Branchberg and Rotkreuz, and announcements for the closure of this campus will be happen in 2011. I would get your resume out ASAP as this is a lousy time to be looking for a job.

bonus and profit sharing---yeah right

Pay plans will be held steady no merrit increase with fewer people receiving bonus. By frustrating you they hope you will leave on their own then they won't have the unpleasent task of cutting you and paying a severence. Of course this is stickly speculation; but pretty standard protocol for large companies.

Don't forget our "harmonization" project. I am sure we are going to get the high salaries and benefits the pharma folks get, right? Any ideas on the changes coming to the pay plans?

Article in C&EN (09/13/10)
New Roche Program Signals Staff Cuts - "Roche is embarking on a cost-cutting and productivity enhancement program that it intends to begin implementing in 2011. The company says it will review its operations and announce the plan's impact on staffing levels later this year. 'We will focus our resources toward investments that will drive innovation and ensure the company's long-term success while at the same time protecting our profitability,' says Roche CEO Severin Schwan. - RM"

"What is the status on the Talking Cones in Indy?"

Have you seen the latest Talking Cone....with a TV background....cant shut the hell up....

The Leadership Team is alive and well...invasion of the body snatchers continues....

1000...

What is the status on the Talking Cones in Indy?

What's the status of Freedom 2 approval in the U.S.?

Having the Roche Hawaii territory is pretty smooth.

according to our german colleagues, walmart is a good place to work... thanks a lot

5 posts short of a 1000 replies and this thread keeps rolling. With Roche still struggling to find some leadership, Beckman absolutely burning to the ground, Ortho having the worst comp plan in the industry and hardware problems galore, and Abbott still being Abbott, where is there good to work these days?

Roche Applied Science is a hell hole as well. They clearly don't value any of their employees.

Doesn't the reagent manufacturing dissappear from Indy next month?

Understand where you are coming from; but be glad you have a job! They got rid of a lot of good people and only succeeded in lowering moral; but that is nothing when you find out you don't have a job despite having great reviews. Take the time to look while you are employed; be happy you are getting a check.

You did have WalMart until the CEO there made some very bad mistakes due to German laws, etc. Go work for Metro then the number one chain.

Could be worse you could be at Beckman!

i didn't know they had walmart in germany? wow that's great... another place for the r&d folks when their lifetime employment contracts run out. maybe you will see DE there...

Then leave the company if its sooooo horrible. whine, whine, whine. Go be a greeter at Walmart.

I can not tell you how horrible it has become to work at Roche in Indy. I am in my nineteenth year there and enjoyed it until Martin Madeous (sp?) moved on. Profit sharing died then, no more Christmas turkey and daily threats with losing my job. Ned Campbell was at least fair but when he left life at Roche became a living hell. I just hope I am offered a severance so I can leave this hell hole.

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pretty sure LG wasn't being courted... AT was and got to say nope...

Hear they are developing a system that does not require coding. Better late than never. What, maltose interence didn't want a piece of that?

I heard the current "management" in there all knowing also called him to come back and run the company....after they couldn't entice AT nor LG.....

pretty sure the answer is ... prison.

I can tell you for sure he is not in Indy...

I loved the Bob and Tom Wilson show. Two great friends!

Tom Wilson

Why does this thread keep dealing with things and people that are long gone. What I would like to know is what the outcome of the TW thing was. I heard he was back in Indy.

DD = loser

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Wondered when someone would bring up DD. It is a miracle that the Swiss would trust anyone after that debacle

You weren't invited to the parties then. There was a lot of partying going on at BMC/RDC in the "old" days. There was a lot of "hooking up" before we called it hooking up. There are some married couples still working there from the "hook-ups" and these people were not necessarily single when they were having their flings etc. And yes, you humble naive sould who spent 30 years working for the company, it was going on that long ago too. The parties were legendary, the alcohol flowed like water and Orlando. Well, who could forget those meetings in Orlando? The newer management, the MTs and ATs you speak of and DDs in Diabetes Care, they took this company on the downward spiral--but it has been happening for many years.

I will say that BMC, (and now Roche), did have their share of shallow men that did those things. MT was one of them, no doubt. There were a couple of VP of Sales that were unethical too, (but I'm going back 10 years on that).
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House of Cards = House that Jack built.....

no other great news?

Uh, Hubert did indeed enjoy his birthday at those bars in Orlando.

I would be stunned if AT acted in an unethical manner. MT on the other hand, would only behave in an unethical manner because that is the ONLY way he knows how to act.

I've been with BMC/Roche for 30+ years. I knew Hubert and AT. (ps...you spelled Hubert's name wrong). There is no way that AT or Hubert ever cut loose and acted unethical during their stays at BMC/Roche. Simply wasn't in their blood. Never. They never went to "those" bars either.

I will say that BMC, (and now Roche), did have their share of shallow men that did those things. MT was one of them, no doubt. There were a couple of VP of Sales that were unethical too, (but I'm going back 10 years on that).

Today, Roche upper management is very good. My only complaint is that it's always changing at the top. Average life-span of a VP, Senior VP, President, CEO, is less than a Huey gunner in Vietnam...

I fondly remember the orgies at the national meetings, particularly Orlando. Going way back even remember the limo with Reahkamper visiting all the boobie bars.

They were never even close to #1 in the US.

Things in Indianapolis must be much better if this is all there is to discuss

There at the end heard MT was swinging both ways. Wonder how it's hanging now.

uh, figment? or perhaps your imagination is that wild and uncontrolled that this is just a fragment... in which case, the original comment stands...