Press Release: Mergers: Commission approves IMS Health’s acquisition of parts of Cegedim, subject to conditions

The European Commission cleared on the 19 December 2014 under the EU Merger Regulation the proposed acquisition of part of Cegedim S.A.'s customer relationship management and strategic data business (the target) by IMS Health. The decision was conditional upon IMS' commitment to divest parts of its primary market research business and to grant third party access to the structure underlying its sales tracking data, the so-called “brick structure”.

European Commission: Competition: Mergers http://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/legislation/regulations.html

European Commission: DG Competition http://ec.europa.eu/competition/index_en.html

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