McKesson Launches Public Takeover Offer For Celesio - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - McKesson Corp. (MCK), a North American healthcare services and information technology company, announced that it has launched the voluntary public takeover offer for the outstanding shares of Celesio (CAKFF.PK) and tender offers for the outstanding convertible bonds of Celesio through subsidiary Dragonfly GmbH & Co. KGaA, in connection with the announcement on October 24, 2013 of McKesson's agreement to acquire Celesio.

The shareholders of Celesio AG can tender their shares until January 9, 2014. The acceptance period for the tender offer will also end on January 9.