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The total cost to Novartis for the 77% stake in Alcon was $38.7 billion ($168 per share). In the deal's first phase, Novartis acquired a 25% stake in Alcon from Nestlé for $10.4 billion in July 2008.
On July 8, 2010, Alcon's independent director committee (IDC) had set up a $50 million litigation trust to ensure company's minority shareholders get the best deal from bidder Novartis AG. [15] On April 9, 2019, Alcon completed a 100% spin-off from Novartis. [4] [16] [17] The new standalone company is worth up to 28 billion Swiss francs. [18]
Novartis is the world's first largest in life sciences and agribusiness markets. [6] It is also the second-largest pharmaceutical company by market cap in 2019. [126] Alcon: At the time Novartis bought Alcon, they had annual sales of $6.5 billion and a net income of $2 billion. [127]
Novartis (NVS) has worked aggressively to purchase Alcon (ACL), a major eye-care company, from Nestlé. The deal-making started a couple of years ago when Novartis shelled out $10.4 billion to ...
More than two years after beginning the acquisition process, Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis (NVS) said Thursday that it has finally completed the purchase of a 77% majority stake in U.S ...
Nestlé owned 100% of Alcon in 1978. In 2002 Nestlé sold 23.2% of its Alcon shares on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2008 Nestlé sold 24.8% of existing Alcon shares to the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis. In 2010 Nestlé sold the remaining 52% of its Alcon shares to Novartis. Novartis paid a total of 39.1 bn USD.
Novartis plans to spin off its Alcon eye care business to shareholders and buy back up to $5 billion in stock as Chief Executive Vas Narasimhan refocuses the Swiss group on prescription drugs.
Novartis withdrew the marketing authorization in the EU in 2002 and in the US in 2006. The drug was withdrawn because while there was a high unmet need for drugs to treat CMV when the drug was initially discovered and developed due to the CMV arising in people with AIDS , the development of HAART dramatically reduced the number of cases of CMV.