AmerisourceBergen to buy Walgreens' drug wholesale business for $6.5 billion
AmerisourceBergen to buy Walgreens’ drug wholesale business for $6.5 billion AmerisourceBergen has a sizable operation in North Texas. Walgreens’s Alliance Healthcare businesses had combined revenue of about $19 billion in 2020.(Gene J. Puskar / AP) By Wire Services Updated at 10:50 a.m. Jan. 7 to remove references to Walgreens’s North Texas collaboration with Prime Therapeutics, which is unaffected. Walgreens Boots Alliance will sell its pharmaceutical wholesale business to AmerisourceBergen in a $6.5 billion cash and stock deal. Pharmaceutical wholesalers essentially act as middlemen...