Pete Nicholas
Pete Nicholas
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Guidant and Boston Scientific share an entrepreneurial spirit, highly talented employees, strong customer relationships and an ability to pioneer lifesaving therapies for patients around the world.
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Our $80 per share offer for Guidant is compelling. We are providing Guidant shareholders with certainty of completion, significant upside potential and substantially more value today than the Johnson & Johnson transaction. By any objective measure, our offer is clearly superior to Johnson & Johnson's.
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This transaction provides a unique opportunity to advance our strategy to further diversify and to expand the growth markets we serve.