AmerisourceBergen
USINFO | 2013-08-02 09:55
AmerisourceBergen Corporation
Type Public
Traded as NYSE: ABC
S&P 500 Component
Industry Pharmaceuticals
Founded Merger between AmeriSource Health and Bergen Brunswig in 2001
Headquarters Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania,U.S.
Area served North America
United Kingdom
Key people Richard C. Gozon
(Chairman)
Steven H. Collis
(President), (CEO) & (Director)
Products Pharmaceuticals and pharmacyservices
Revenue  US$ 79.49 billion (2012)[1]
Operating income  US$ 1.253 billion (2012)[1]
Net income  US$ 719.0 million (2012)[1]
Total assets  US$ 15.44 billion (2012)[1]
Total equity  US$ 2,457 billion (2012)[1]
Employees 14,500 (Sept 2012)[1]
Website AmerisourceBergen.com

AmerisourceBergen Corporation is a Chesterbrook, Pennsylvania baseddrug wholesale company that was formed by the merger of Bergen Brunswig and AmeriSource in 2001.[2]They provide drug distribution and related services designed to reduce costs and improve patient outcomes, distribute a line of brand name and generic pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter (OTC) health care products and home health care supplies and equipment to a wide variety of health care providers located throughout theUnited States, including acute carehospitals and health systems, independent and chain retailpharmacies, mail-order facilities,physicians, clinics and other alternate site facilities, as well as skilled nursing and assisted livingcenters. They also provide pharmaceuticals and pharmacy services to long-term care, workers' compensation and specialty drug patients. It is a market leader in pharmaceutical distribution and ranked 27th on the Fortune 500 list for 2011 with over $80 Billion in annual revenue, [3] a rank which had slipped to 32 by 2013.[4] In terms of revenue (80.2 billion in 2011) the firm is the largest based in Pennsylvania.[5]

History 
In 1997, in competition between Cardinal Health and McKesson Corporation, Cardinal Health has planned to purchase Bergen, to which McKesson responded with a bid to purchase Amerisource. Instead, Amerisource and Bergen merged into AmerisourceBergen.
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