Press Release: Mergers: Commission approves General Electric as purchaser of Thermo Fisher’s divestment businesses

The European Commission on 31 January 2014 approved General Electric as the purchaser of Thermo Fisher's divestments businesses producing and supplying (i) media and sera for cell culture, (ii) gene silencing products, and (iii) polymer-based magnetic beads. Thermo Fisher had committed to divest these three businesses as a condition for the Commission to allow the acquisition of Life Technologies.