Corporate Profile for McKesson Corp., dated May 24, 1996.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and information services See Information Systems. . These include Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance News/Retrieval, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Reuter Company Newsyear, Reuter Business Briefing, DataTimes, Nexis, Dialog, NewsNet, America OnLine See AOL. , CompuServe, Delphi, Individual's HeadsUp and First!, Desktop Data's NewsEdge, UMI UMI University Microfilms International UMI United States Minor Outlying Islands (ISO Country code) UMI University of Miami UMI Universal Management Infrastructure (IBM) Data Courier, NewsBank, Information Access Company, Prodigy, Comtex, and many others. -0- Published date: May 24, 1996 Company name: McKesson Corp.
Address: One Post Street
San Francisco, Calif. 94104
Telephone No.: 415/983-8300 Chief Executive Officer/Chairman: Alan J. Seelenfreund Chief Operating Officer/President: Mark A. Pulido Chief Financial Officer: Kevin Ferrell Investor Relations Contact: Janet Bley Business number: 415/983-9357 Public Relations Contact: Annie Reutinger Business number: 415/983-8418 Home number: 510/530-6611 Trading symbol: MCK
Industry: Healthcare Information Services;
Pharmaceutical Distribution
Company description: McKesson Corp. is a leading provider of healthcare products and services. Through McKesson Drug Co., McKesson Health Systems, and a Canadian subsidiary, Medis Health & Pharmaceutical Services, McKesson is the largest distributor of pharmaceutical and healthcare products to pharmacies, hospitals and healthcare networks in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Another unit, Healthcare Delivery Systems, creates unique, cost-effective delivery systems for biotechnology and other medications. Through Millbrook Distribution Services, the company is a nationwide distributor of health and beauty care products, specialty foods and general merchandise. The company operates McKesson Water Products Co., one of the largest distributors of bottled drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. in the United States. McKesson has a 55 percent interest in Armor All Products Corp., a provider of automotive appearance products, and a 23 percent interest in Nadro, S.A., Mexico's leading pharmaceutical distributor. The company, headquartered in San Francisco, is listed on the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Pacific stock exchanges (MCK MCK McKinsey & Company (consulting firm) MCK Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (Quebec) MCK Mon Colle Knights (children's TV show) MCK Mirror Classes Kit MCK Maintenance Check ). During fiscal 1996, the stock price ranged from a low of $37 1/4 per share to a high of $55 5/8. In fiscal 1996 (ended March 31, 1996) McKesson had total revenues of $13.7 billion, with a net income of $135.4 million. CONTACT: McKesson Corp., San Francisco |
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