PHARMACIA&UPJOHN PRIVATIZATION

Completed the Pharmacia & Upjohn, “privatization” the pharmaceutical multinational arisen from the merger of the Swedish Pharmacia and the American Upjohn in 1996. Stockholm government has indeed informed to have performed the exit from the company capital transferring the 7%. The Swedish Ministry for Industry and Labour has announced that the proceeds from cession have been of 1,45 billions Ecu. American and Swedish Institutional Investors have acquired the shares put on sale by the Swedish government.