Morningstar - Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc (WBA) Walgreens Will Buy Half of Rite Aid, Terminates Merger; Best Move Given Circumstances

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Vishnu Lekraj

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Walgreens Will Buy Half of Rite Aid, Terminates Merger; Best Move Given Circumstances

Walgreens has announced it will terminate its acquisition agreement with Rite Aid and instead purchase 2,186 stores (about half of Rite Aidâ€™s fleet) from its retail pharmacy peer for $5.75 billion. The initial merger faced major pushback from the Federal Trade Commission and was headed for a lengthy legal battle. Walgreens chose to avoid a costly and time-consuming court action and buy as many stores as it could while avoiding further FTC action. While the firm did not acquire the total number o...

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Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc

Walgreens Boots Alliance is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is engaged in retail and wholesale pharmacy. The company's operations are organized into three divisions, which are also its reportable segments: Retail Pharmacy USA; Retail Pharmacy International; and Pharmaceutical Wholesale. The Retail Pharmacy USA division has pharmacy-led health and beauty retail offerings. The Retail Pharmacy International division has pharmacy-led health and beauty retail businesses. The Pharmaceutical Wholesale division, which mainly operates under the Alliance Healthcare brand, supplies medicines, other healthcare products and related services to pharmacies, doctors, health centers and hospitals.

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Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

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Vishnu Lekraj

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