Walgreens Sells Alliance Healthcare
In an effort to focus on its growing retail pharmacy division, a network of more than 9,000 stores, Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBA) is selling its Alliance Healthcare business to AmerisourceBergen Corporation (NYSE: ABC). The deal, valued at $6.5 billion, is comprised of $6.275 billion in cash and 2 million shares of AmerisourceBergen common stock for a majority interest. The Alliance Healthcare business supplies medicines, other healthcare products and related services to more than 115,000 pharmacies, doctors, health centers and hospitals each year from 306 distribution centers in 11 countries. AmerisourceBergen sources and distributes pharmaceutical products to healthcare... Read More »
BrightSpring Merges with KKR’s PharMerica
BrightSpring Health Services and PharMerica are merging to create a national home care business with its own pharmacy services provider under KKR & Co. (NYSE: KKR). Both companies are based in Louisville, Kentucky and will continue to operate from there. Financial terms were not disclosed. BrightSpring, formerly known as ResCare, was a portfolio company of Onex Corporation (TOR: ONEX). It provides comprehensive home and community-based health services in behavioral health, digital health, hospice and homecare to complex populations in need of specialized care. Onex acquired ResCare way back in March 2004 for $83.4 million. PharMerica is a specialty pharmacy service provider for the... Read More »
Amazon Scoops Up PillPack for $1 Billion
Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) finally took the plunge into the pharmaceutical market with its approximately $1 billion acquisition of five-year-old PillPack, an online pharmacy startup based in Manchester, New Hampshire. Financial terms weren’t disclosed in the deal’s announcement, but on June 28, the day of the announcement, The Wall Street Journal quoted sources on the price. In April 2018, Walmart (NYSE: WMT) was reported to be in discussions with PillPack, and targeting a price under $1 billion, according to CNBC. Amazon was also said to be holding discussions with the company at the time. PillPack is an online pharmacy that delivers medications in pre-sorted dose packaging and... Read More »