Alliance Boots Share Discussion Threads

[losses] 11/3/2007 00:14

this will be over 10 quid on monday by the looks of it.

[madaboutmoney] 09/3/2007 21:27

Highly suspicious purchase by Sir Nigel Rudd. If there was ever a case of investigating insider dealing, this should be one of them, especially when the deal has been orchestrated by a co-director.

[miata] 09/3/2007 18:39

KKR's and Stefano Pessina's approach is interesting and £10 a share will probably be enough. (Pessina, the world's 407th richest man, already owns 15%).

An outside possibility is a rival bid from Reckitt Benckiser, with record results out last month and having acquired Boots Healthcare International last year.

"Highly conditional", Hmmm.

Probably be sorted in a month.

[sklogw] 09/3/2007 16:59

Multi conditional offer

[jezboy1] 09/3/2007 16:30

Poor fella, must be a bit dark in the pit.

Here u go -

LONDON (AFX) - Alliance Boots PLC, the international health and beauty group
created from the merger of Boots Group and Alliance UniChem last July, said it
has received "a preliminary and highly conditional approach" regarding a
possible takeover offer.
"There can, however, be no certainty that any offer for the company will be
made," it said in a terse statement to the stock exchange.
Dealers noted the stock had risen sharply today on market talk of a bid,
possibly from private equity, at around 10 stg a share.
By 3.31 pm shares in Alliance Boots were up 138 pence at 953 pence, valuing
the business at 9.22 bln stg.
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[jeffian] 09/3/2007 15:37

borninthepit,

Look up! It's in the header.

[borninthepit] 09/3/2007 15:24

jezboy1 - can you post the RNS please? Thank you

[jezboy1] 09/3/2007 15:23

The RNS tells it all and I have just had a big bonus :-)

what you reckon Miata?

[miata] 05/3/2007 11:20

Forthcoming, not yet methinks, opportunities.

[jezboy1] 05/3/2007 11:19

Thanks Miata - as usual I am in your debt.

hope all is well with you, despite the rather unpleasent conditions atm.

[miata] 05/3/2007 11:14

No div O/S since last paid 3/10/06, 2) 31/5, 1) 6/6.

[jezboy1] 05/3/2007 10:48

Miata - two quick questions

1. when does this go ex-div (no word on digital look)

2. when is next trading statement/results due?

ta

[miata] 03/3/2007 11:05

Drug wholesalers failed on Friday to block an arrangement making Alliance Boots the exclusive distributor of medicines from Pfizer, the world's biggest drugmaker.

The high court in London dismissed their application for an injunction to stop the deal coming effect on March 5.

Pfizer says it needs the new system to stamp out counterfeiting, following three cases of bogus versions of its top-selling cholesterol fighter Lipitor turning up in the British distribution chain since mid-2005.

[mariannejane] 14/2/2007 16:58

MONTHLY CHART

[mariannejane] 14/2/2007 16:57

WEEKLY CHART

[mariannejane] 14/2/2007 16:56

DAILY CHART

[leeson31] 14/2/2007 16:56

seems ok for day trading MJ


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[indieman] 01/2/2007 07:05

Off topic but interesting.

According to the Daily Telegraph which did its own O'Higgins article, AB. was up 37% over the year to Dec 2006. The overall outcome for the method for the 5 share picks was +23.6%, 'which was nice'.

[miata] 24/1/2007 12:46

Alliance Boots fell 0.1% after the company was downgraded to underweight from equal-weight by Morgan Stanley, with the broker arguing that the market isn't pricing in the risks to the newly merged business.
"Recent moves in the U.K. and France (Alliance Boots' two largest markets) suggest that the big drug manufacturers are looking to take increasing control of distribution. The move to a fee-for-service model in the U.S. has proved very painful for the pharma wholesalers," the broker said.

Subsequent rise on the back of the less hawkish than expected BofE minutes.

[indieman] 12/12/2006 15:49

Ta ttg,
I was just trying to check the outcomes for the IC O'Higgins tips from December '05. Not easy when you can't compare like with like.