IMS Health To Be Acquired By Market Research Firm VNU
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Acquisition of IMS Health will allow Netherlands-based VNU to move its health care marketing segment into physician targeting. The $7 bil. deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2006.
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