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Saffer, Michael A., and Daniel L. Coutinho
Nortek, Inc.; Analysis to Aid Public Comment
9808002 Informal Interpretation
9808003 Informal Interpretation
9808004 Informal Interpretation
9808005 Informal Interpretation
9808006 Informal Interpretation
9808007 Informal Interpretation
9808010 Informal Interpretation
FTC Staff Comment Before the Mississippi Public Utilities Commission Concerning Entergy Mississippi, Inc. Transco Proposal
FTC Staff Comment Before the Food and Drug Administration Concerning Dietary Supplements; Effect of Product on the Structure or Function of the Body
FTC Staff Comment Before the Michigan Public Service Commission Concerning Electric Restructuring
FTC Staff Comment Before the Louisiana Public Service Commission Concerning Stranded Costs and Benefits
McKesson Corp. and AmeriSource Health Corp
The Commission authorized staff to file separate motions in federal district court to block the mergers of the nation's four largest drug wholesalers into two wholesale distributors of pharmaceutical products. The Commission charged that Cardinal 's proposed acquisition of Bergen Brunswig Corporation and McKesson Corporation's proposed acquisition of AmeriSource Health Corp. would substantially reduce competition in the market for prescription drug wholesaling and lead to higher prices and a reduction in services to the companies' customers --hospitals, nursing homes and drugstores --and eventually to consumers. Two separate motions for preliminary injunctions were filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia March 6, 1998. On July 31, 1998, the District Court granted the Commission's motions enjoining both proposed mergers. The parties abandoned their respective merger plans soon after the decision.