Article: Medco Health Solutions, Inc. Pays $2 Billion Dividend to Merck; Material Conditions to Spin-Off From Merck & Co., Inc. Are Satisfied.

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WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 13, 2003

Merck & Co, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Medco Health Solutions, Inc., "Medco Health," announced today that Medco Health has paid to Merck dividends aggregating $2 billion and that all material conditions for completion of the previously announced spin-off of 100 percent of Medco Health to Merck shareholders have been satisfied. The dividends were paid from the net proceeds of Medco Health's underwritten public notes offering, borrowings under Medco Health's credit facility, advances under its accounts receivable financing facility and the settlement of an intercompany ...

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