AmerisourceBergen Corporation (ABC)

AmerisourceBergen Corporation, a pharmaceutical services company, provides drug distribution and related services to healthcare providers and pharmaceutical manufacturers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. The company distributes brand-name and generic pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter healthcare products, home healthcare supplies and equipment, and related services to various healthcare providers, including acute care hospitals and health systems, independent and chain retail pharmacies, mail order pharmacies, medical and dialysis clinics, physicians, and long-term care and other alternate site pharmacies. It also offers various services, such as pharmaceutical packaging, pharmacy automation, inventory management, reimbursement and pharmaceutical consulting services, logistics services, and pharmacy management. In addition, AmerisourceBergen provides scalable automated pharmacy dispensing equipment, medication and supply dispensing cabinets, and supply management software to various retail and institutional healthcare providers. Further, the company offers distribution and other services to physicians, who specialize in various disease states; distributes vaccines, injectables, and plasma and other blood products; and provides commercialization services, third party logistics, nursing services, and other services for biotech and other pharmaceutical manufacturers, as well as reimbursement consulting, data analytics, practice management, and physician education services. Additionally, it delivers unit dose, punch card, unit-of-use, and compliance and other packaging solutions to institutional and retail healthcare providers; and offers contract packaging and clinical trial material services for pharmaceutical manufacturers. The company serves customers through a network of distribution and service centers, and packaging facilities. AmerisourceBergen was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.

For the fiscal year ended 30 September 2006, AmerisourceBergen Corp.'s revenues increased 12% to $61.2B. Net income from continuing operation before accounting change increased 60% to $468M. Revenues reflect improved performance from Pharmaceutical Distribution, specialty business and PharMerica segment. Net income also reflects the absence of loss on early retirement of debt and decreased interest expense.