OREANDA-NEWS. April 17, 2014. McKesson Corporation (NYSE:MCK), a leading North American healthcare services and information technology company, announced today that the results of the initial acceptance period of the voluntary public takeover offer (“Takeover Offer”) for the remaining shares of Celesio AG (“Celesio”) have been published. McKesson now owns 75.7% of Celesio shares on a fully diluted basis.

Shareholders who did not tender their Celesio shares into the Takeover Offer during the initial acceptance period may tender their shares within the additional two-week acceptance period. The additional two-week acceptance period will begin on April 8, 2014 and will expire on April 22, 2014 at 24:00 (CEST) / 18:00 (EDT).

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