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Irish firm buying P&G drug business

Posted: August 25, 2009 at 2:59 a.m.

Shares of Ireland's Warner Chilcott Plc skyrocketed Monday on news of its bid to morph from a small, specialty pharmaceutical company to a global player by buying Procter & Gamble Co.'s prescription drug business for $3.1 billion.

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