$5.5B deal creates USA's No. 1 HMO
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Humana is being acquired by United HealthCare in a stock swap deal worth $5.5 billion to form United HealthCare, the biggest managed-care firm in the US. The transaction is seen by analysts as beneficial to customers since they would be offered more access to services as well as greater choice of doctors and hospitals. The merged entity's expected revenue of $27 billion in 1998 will beat Cigna's estimated $22 billion and Aetna's $20 billion. The transaction, which will result to job cuts, is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 1998.
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Is acquiring Humana in a stock swap deal worth $5.5 bil to form United HealthCare, US biggest managed-care co
Publication Name: USA Today
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0734-7456
Year: 1998
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Pfizer wages $81B battle
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Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc has announced its bid to acquire rival Warner-Lambert Co for $81.3 billion. Pfizer's $95.15-per-share offer is about $10-per-share more than agreed $71-billion merger deal forged between Warner-Lambert and American Home Products Corp (AHP). Pfizer said that the hostile takeover bid was triggered by the announcement of the AHP-Warner-Lambert deal, which nullified a pre-existing agreement that prevented Pfizer from bidding for Warner-Lambert.
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Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0734-7456
Year: 1999
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