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News Release AmerisourceBergen Corporation
P.O. Box 959
Valley Forge, PA 19482
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Barbara Brungess
610-727-7199 bbrungess@amerisourcebergen.com |
AmerisourceBergen To Acquire TheraCom, LLC
VALLEY FORGE, PA, September 27, 2011 – AmerisourceBergen Corporation (NYSE: ABC) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to purchase TheraCom, LLC, a subsidiary of CVS Caremark Corporation (NYSE: CVS) that provides a wide range of support to pharmaceutical and biotechnology drug manufacturers including consulting and reimbursement services, for $250 million. The purchase price is subject to customary working capital adjustments. The acquisition is expected to be neutral to the Company’s fiscal year 2012 earnings, and slightly accretive in fiscal 2013. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of fiscal 2012, which ends December 31, 2011.
TheraCom is a leading provider of commercialization support services to the biotech and pharmaceutical industry, specifically providing reimbursement and patient access support services, and will join Lash Group as part of AmerisourceBergen Consulting Services (ABCS). “The acquisition of TheraCom will significantly increase the size and scope of our consulting services offering and meaningfully expands our reimbursement, adherence and patient access services for pharmaceutical and biotech manufacturers,” said Steven H. Collis, AmerisourceBergen President and Chief Executive Officer. “The addition of TheraCom’s capabilities to our market-leading consulting services will provide our manufacturer customers with enhanced solutions to meet the challenges in the changing healthcare landscape, and will help ensure even greater patient access to medication therapies.”
TheraCom’s customized solutions and high touch service model complement ABCS’s existing services and expand the group’s pharmacy benefit reimbursement capabilities. Together, Lash Group and TheraCom will offer an extensive platform of services and solutions to support the growing demand for patient access and reimbursement services, and support the need for unique distribution solutions. TheraCom’s annualized revenues are approximately $700 million, the majority of which are provided by the specialized distribution component of the integrated reimbursement support services for certain unique prescription products.
News Release
About AmerisourceBergen
AmerisourceBergen is one of the world’s largest
pharmaceutical services companies serving the United States, Canada and
selected global markets. Servicing both healthcare providers and pharmaceutical
manufacturers in the pharmaceutical supply channel, the Company provides drug
distribution and related services designed to reduce costs and improve patient
outcomes. AmerisourceBergen’s service solutions range from pharmacy
automation and pharmaceutical packaging to reimbursement and pharmaceutical
consulting services. With $80 billion in annualized revenue,
AmerisourceBergen is headquartered in Valley Forge, PA, and employs
approximately 10,000 people. AmerisourceBergen is ranked #27 on the Fortune 500
list. For more information, go to www.amerisourcebergen.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Certain of the statements contained in this press release are
“forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A
of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934. These statements are based on management’s current
expectations and are subject to uncertainty and change in circumstances. Among
the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
projected, anticipated or implied are the following: changes in pharmaceutical
market growth rates; the loss of one or more key customer or supplier
relationships; changes in customer mix; customer delinquencies, defaults or
insolvencies; supplier defaults or insolvencies; changes in pharmaceutical
manufacturers’ pricing and distribution policies or practices; adverse
resolution of any contract or other dispute with customers or suppliers;
federal and state government enforcement initiatives to detect and prevent
suspicious orders of controlled substances and the diversion of controlled
substances; qui tam litigation for alleged violations of fraud and abuse
laws and regulations and/or any other laws and regulations governing the
marketing, sale and purchase of pharmaceutical products or any related
litigation, including shareholder derivative lawsuits; changes in federal and
state legislation or regulatory action affecting pharmaceutical product pricing
or reimbursement policies, including under Medicaid and Medicare; changes in
regulatory or clinical medical guidelines and/or labeling for the
pharmaceutical products we distribute, including certain anemia products; price
inflation in branded pharmaceuticals and price deflation in generics; greater
or less than anticipated benefit from launches of the generic versions of
previously patented pharmaceutical products; significant breakdown or
interruption of our information technology systems; our inability to continue
to implement an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to handle
business and financial processes and transactions (including processes and
transactions relating to our customers and suppliers) of AmerisourceBergen Drug
Corporation operations and our corporate functions as intended without
functional problems, unanticipated delays and/or cost overruns; success of
integration, restructuring or systems initiatives; interest rate and foreign
currency exchange rate fluctuations; economic, business, competitive and/or
regulatory developments in Canada, the United Kingdom and elsewhere outside of
the United States, including changes and/or potential changes in Canadian
provincial legislation affecting pharmaceutical product pricing or service fees
or regulatory action by provincial authorities in Canada to lower
pharmaceutical product pricing and service fees; the impact of divestitures or
the acquisition of businesses that do not perform as we expect or that are
difficult for us to integrate or control; our inability to successfully
complete any other transaction that we may wish to pursue from time to time;
changes in tax laws or legislative initiatives that could adversely affect our
tax positions and/or our tax liabilities or adverse resolution of challenges to
our tax positions; increased costs of maintaining, or reductions in our ability
to maintain, adequate liquidity and financing sources; volatility and
deterioration of the capital and credit markets; and other economic, business,
competitive, legal, tax, regulatory and/or operational factors affecting our
business generally. Certain additional factors that management believes could
cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially from those described in
forward-looking statements are set forth (i) in Item 1A (Risk
Factors) in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
ended September 30, 2010 and elsewhere in that report and (ii) in
other reports filed by the Company pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of
1934.
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