McKesson Corporation Completes Divestiture of Canada-Based Rexall and Well.ca Businesses

IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--McKesson Corporation (NYSE: MCK) reported today that on December 30, 2024 it has closed the transaction announced in September 2024 to sell its Canada-based Rexall and Well.ca businesses to Birch Hill Equity Partners, a Canadian private equity firm. This transaction enables the Company to focus capital deployment and prioritize investments expanding its strategic oncology and biopharma growth platforms.

Additional details related to the divestiture can be found on the company’s Investor Relations website.

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Except for historical information, statements in this press release regarding McKesson’s capital deployment, investment and growth platforms constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in those statements. It is not possible to identify all such risks and uncertainties. The reader should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are first made. Except to the extent required by law, the company undertakes no obligation to publicly update forward-looking statements. We encourage investors to read the important risk factors described in the company’s most recent Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These risk factors include, but are not limited to: we may be unsuccessful in achieving our strategic growth objectives; our use of third-party data is subject to limitations that could impede the growth of our data services business; we might be adversely impacted by changes in the economic environments in which we operate; and we might be adversely impacted by events outside of our control, such as widespread public health issues, natural disasters, political events and other catastrophic events.