The announcement last month that Tyco International Ltd. is acquiring CR Bard Inc. brings to a close the history, as an independent company, of one of the last of the great hospital supply companies of the 1980s. [See Deal] Bard will go on, but as another in a growing number of leading brands in Tyco's portfolio.
Not that the deal was a surprise; Bard's sale had been rumored for years with Johnson & Johnson often mentioned as a potential acquirer. Conventional wisdom has it that...
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