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The stock is traded under the ticker symbol ALC. In July 2008, Novartis purchased approximately 25% of Nestlé's stake in Alcon, with an option to buy Nestlé's remaining shares beginning in 2010. Novartis bought 52% stake from Nestlé for $28.1 Billion. This deal brought the total ownership of Alcon by Novartis to 77%.
Novartis announces that it will spin-off its ophthalmology division, Alcon, into a separately-traded standalone company in order to focus on its legacy pharmaceuticals business.
Novartis's businesses are divided into two operating divisions: Innovative Medicines and Sandoz (generics). The eye-care division Alcon was spun off into an independent company in April 2019. In August 2022, Novartis announced plans to spin off Sandoz as part of restructuring. The spin-off was completed in October 2023.
The total cost to Novartis for the 77% stake in Alcon was $38.7 billion ($168 per share). In the deal's first phase, Novartis acquired a 25% stake in Alcon from Nestlé for $10.4 billion in July 2008.
The deal-making started a couple of years ago when Novartis shelled out $10.4 billion to Nestlé for a 25% equity stake in M&A Watch: Alcon's Minorty Shareholders Getting the Short End of the Sale ...
Sandoz Group AG is a Swiss company that focuses on generic pharmaceuticals and biosimilars. [4] Prior to October 2023, it was part of a division of Novartis that was established in 2003, when Novartis united all of its generics businesses under the name Sandoz. Before this, the company existed as an independent pharmaceutical manufacturer until ...
A ticker symbol or stock symbol is an abbreviation used to uniquely identify publicly traded shares of a particular stock on a particular stock market. In short, ticker symbols are arrangements of symbols or characters (generally Latin letters or digits) representing specific assets or securities listed on a stock exchange or traded publicly. A ...
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