CVS Caremark Corp http://www.alacrastore.com/company-snapshot/CVS_Caremark_Corp-1010863 Monday, October 13, 2008 11:10:41 PM 1010863 CVS Caremark Corp en AlacraStore RSS Builder 1.0 30 http://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/newstex/BW-0001-28693752newstex/BW-0001-28693752xml Oct. ##, #### (Business Wire) -- Fitch Ratings has affirmed and removed from Rating Watch Negative ArvinMeritor's (ARM) Issuer Default Rating and outstanding debt ratings as follows: --IDR at 'B'; --Senior unsecured at 'B/RR#'; ...04000000040180000400900004009001040110000401100210/13/2008 12:20:47 PM18000000180240001800900018022000190000001900200019002007Business WireBW-0001-28693752ARVINMERITOR INCCVS CORPARMCVSNewsNewstexhttp://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/newstex/PRN-0005-28534000newstex/PRN-0005-28534000xml WASHINGTON, Oct. #, #### (PRNewswire-USNewswire delivered by Newstex) -- In a press release sent out yesterday, CVS claims that in the CtW Investment Group's September ## letter to the Longs Board of Directors, CtW made a series of...04000000040160000401600502000000020020000200200610/3/2008 7:21:45 PM1800000018016000190000001900200019002013190010001900101119001005PR Newswire USPRN-0005-28534000CVS CORPRITE AID CORPWALGREEN COTHOMAS M RYANCVSRADRADCOWAGNewsNewstexhttp://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/newstex/USN-0001-28534001newstex/USN-0001-28534001xml Oct. #, #### (US Newswire delivered by Newstex) -- To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Richard Clayton of Change to Win, +#-###-###-#### WASHINGTON, Oct. # /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a press release sent out yesterday, CVS (NYSE:CVS) ...04000000040160000401600502000000020020000200200610/3/2008 7:21:45 PM1800000018016000190000001900200019002013190010001900101119001005U.S. NewswireUSN-0001-28534001CVS CORPRITE AID CORPWALGREEN COTHOMAS M RYANCVSRADRADCOWAGNewsNewstexhttp://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/newstex/PRN-0005-28281996newstex/PRN-0005-28281996xml WASHINGTON, Sep. ##, #### (PRNewswire delivered by Newstex) -- The US Business Leadership Network (USBLN(R)) today announced that it entered into a Strategic Alliance with the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment...110000001100200014000000140040000400000004018000040160000401601311014000110140039/24/2008 1:18:56 PM1800000018015000180220001900000019001000PR Newswire USPRN-0005-28281996CVS CORPCVSNewsNewstexhttp://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/newstex/PRN-0005-28251626newstex/PRN-0005-28251626xml WALNUT CREEK, Calif., Sep. ##, #### (PRNewswire-FirstCall delivered by Newstex) -- Longs Drug Stores Corporation ("Longs") (NYSE: LDG) today issued the following statement in response to the Walgreens (NYSE, Nasdaq: WAG) announcement:...0900000009015000040000000401600004016019040160050401600804007000040070050200000002002000020020060700000007003000070030019/23/2008 8:18:23 AM180000001801300018016000190000001900100019001005PR Newswire USPRN-0005-28251626CVS CORPLONGS DRUG STORES CORPWALGREEN COCVSLDGWAGNewsNewstexhttp://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/newstex/BW-0001-28242476newstex/BW-0001-28242476xml Sep. ##, #### (Business Wire) -- Walgreen Co. (NYSE: WAG) (NASDAQ: WAG) sent the following letter to the Longs Drug Stores board of directors on Monday afternoon: A September ##, #### A Warren F. Bryant Chairman, President...090000000901500004000000040040000400400304016000040160050401600804007000040070050200000002002000020020069/22/2008 7:19:48 PM180000001801600018022000180070001900000019001000Business WireBW-0001-28242476CVS CORPLONGS DRUG STORES CORPWALGREEN COJEFFREY REINWARREN F BRYANTCVSLDGWAGNewsNewstexhttp://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/fitch/403012_report_framefitch/403012_report_framepdfFitch Ratings is a leading global rating agency committed to providing the world's credit markets with independent, timely and prospective credit opinions. 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Metz, the Chairperson of Longs' Governance and Nominating Committee. The CtW Investment Group urges...09000000090150000400000004016000040160050401600804016047040040000400400304019000040190030200000002002000020020069/16/2008 3:17:50 PM1800000018016000PR Newswire USPRN-0005-28099901CVS CORPLONGS DRUG STORES CORPWALGREEN COMARY S METZCVSLDGWAGNewsNewstexhttp://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/spcred/671356spcred/671356normThe latest News from S&Pglobalstructured9/15/2008 6:26:00 PM100News671356United StatesDrug RetailAsiaEmerging MarketsEurope, Middle East, AfricaLatin AmericaUnited StatesGlobal IssuersStructured FinanceFinancial InstitutionsCorporationsCommercial MBSRetailHealth CareNewsNEW YORK (Standard&Poor's) Sept. 15, 2008—Standard&Poor's Ratings Services said today that Walgreen Co.'s (A+/Watch Neg/--) competing higher offer to purchase Longs Drug Stores Corp. (not rated) in a transaction valued at about $3.0 billion has no effect on our ratings on CVS/Caremark Corp. (BBB+/Stable/A-2). Woonsocket, R.I.-based CVS has extended the expiration for its tender offer to purchase Longs to Oct. 15, 2008, and the purchase price remains at $2.9 billion, including the assumption of net debt. Although it is uncertain whether CVS will make a revised offer for Longs, an upsized offer funded with incremental debt that results in total debt to EBITDA increasing to pro forma debt leverage of over 3.4x from 3.2x currently couldUSA12665K58574558575A58575B58575C12665012665J30101010 301010 3010 30CVS Caremark Corp.101476ASIAEMERGINGEUROMIDAFRLATAMERICAUSACVSNEWSGLOBISSSTRUCFICORPCMBSRetailHealthCredit & Investment ResearchS&P Credit Researchhttp://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/newstex/MCOM-0004-28072184newstex/MCOM-0004-28072184xml Sep. ##, #### (M# Communications Ltd. delivered by Newstex) -- Walgreens Co (NYSE: WAG) (NASDAQ: WAG), operator of a chain of drugstores, disclosed on ## September that it has a proposal to acquire Longs Drug Stores Corporation (NYSE:...0400000004016000040160059/15/2008 12:22:56 PM1800000018016000M2 EquityBitesMCOM-0004-28072184CVS CORPLONGS DRUG STORES CORPWALGREEN COCVSLDGWAGNewsNewstexhttp://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/newstex/PRN-0005-28057754newstex/PRN-0005-28057754xml WALNUT CREEK, Calif., Sep. ##, #### (PRNewswire-FirstCall delivered by Newstex) -- Longs Drug Stores Corporation ("Longs") (NYSE: LDG) today confirmed that it had received an unsolicited, non-binding expression of interest from Walgreens....0900000009015000040000000401600004016005040160190401600804007000040070050200000002002000020020060700000007003000070030019/14/2008 4:18:49 PM180000001801300018016000190000001900100019001005PR Newswire USPRN-0005-28057754CVS CORPLONGS DRUG STORES CORPWALGREEN COCVSLDGWAGNewsNewstexhttp://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/newstex/PRN-0005-27986844newstex/PRN-0005-27986844xml WALNUT CREEK, Calif., Sep. ##, #### (PRNewswire-FirstCall delivered by Newstex) -- Longs Drug Stores Corporation ("Longs") (NYSE: LDG) today announced that Longs and CVS Caremark Corporation ("CVS") (NYSE: CVS) have agreed in principle...0400000004016000040160050401601904007000040070050200000002002000020020060700000007003000070030019/10/2008 9:24:59 AM18000000180160001801400018013000190000001900100019001005PR Newswire USPRN-0005-27986844CVS CORPLONGS DRUG STORES CORPCVSLDGNewsNewstexhttp://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/newstex/BW-0001-27943861newstex/BW-0001-27943861xml Sep. #, #### (Business Wire) -- CVS Caremark (NYSE: CVS) and Longs Drugs Stores Corporation (NYSE: LDG) announced that the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvement Act of #### relating to CVS Caremarka€™s pending...0400000004016000040160190401600504007000040070050200000002002000020020060700000007003000070030019/8/2008 7:22:00 AM1800000018013000180160001900000019001000Business WireBW-0001-27943861CVS CORPLONGS DRUG STORES CORPCVSLDGNewsNewstexhttp://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/ccbn/T1933186ccbn/T1933186norm... - Thomas Weisel - AnalystWe have with us CVS Caremark Corporation. We are going to get some overview comments from the Chairman, President and CEO, Tom Ryan. Next to me is Dave Rickard, who is the Chief Financial Officer of the Company; and in the audience is Nancy Christal, who runs the IR program for the Company. So, Tom, if you could spend a couple of minutes with some overview on the Company and some strategy, and then we will dig into the Q&A. Thanks for being with us today. ... 9/4/2008 11:07:00 AMCVS Caremark Corporation54.0000FinalCVS Caremark Corporation at Thomas Weisel Partners Healthcare Conference TranscriptCVS8:35am ETTranscriptT1933186Credit & Investment ResearchThomson StreetEventshttp://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/ccbn/T1933177ccbn/T1933177norm... - Goldman Sachs - AnalystCVS remains on our conviction buy list where it has been for almost two years or just after the Company made its initial bid for Caremark. We see ##% upside from current levels. That we have been and still are big believers in that strategic combination. It is hard to tell exactly how powerful the retail PBM model will ultimately become. We just don't know. But that said, I have believed that by placing a handful of pharmacy related assets, stores, clinics, mail order, specialty, managed lives, putting all of that under one roof, the dialog with payers could change, could be different and that would create market share potential. Not to mention the superior free cash flow, return on capital and P/E multiples that a PBM should bring to the table and then ultimately will. Now nearly two years later the integration has gone very well, yet the shares traded only ## times #### earnings at a discount to Walgreens without a PBM and at a substantial discount to [Midtone... 9/3/2008 8:04:00 PMCVS Caremark Corporation54.0000FinalCVS Caremark Corporation at Goldman Sachs Global Retailing Conference TranscriptCVS1:30pm ETTranscriptT1933177Credit & Investment ResearchThomson StreetEventshttp://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/newstex/PRN-0005-27866941newstex/PRN-0005-27866941xml WASHINGTON, Sep. #, #### (PRNewswire delivered by Newstex) -- The CtW Investment Group sent the following letter today to Longs Drug Stores Corporation Governance and Nominating Committee chairperson Dr. Mary S. Metz in response to...090000000901500011000000110020000400000004004000040040030401600004016005040160080401604704007000040070050200000002002000020020069/3/2008 2:19:26 PM18000000180160001802200018008000PR Newswire USPRN-0005-27866941CVS CORPLONGS DRUG STORES CORPMARY S METZTHOMAS M RYANWARREN F BRYANTCVSLDGNewsNewstexhttp://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/newstex/PRN-0003-27830360newstex/PRN-0003-27830360xml ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Sep. #, #### (PR Newswire Europe delivered by Newstex) -- v> Terumo Cardiovascular Systems (Terumo CVS) announced that it filed a patent infringement complaint on August ## in the Northern District of California...130000001300100013001002070000000701400007014009070140180700100007001005020000000200200002002008020020060400000004016000040160319/2/2008 11:21:25 AM18000000180180001900000019001000190010221900200019002013PR Newswire EuropePRN-0003-27830360CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS INCCVS CORPCSIICVSNewsNewstexhttp://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/newstex/PRN-0005-27829574newstex/PRN-0005-27829574xml ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sep. #, #### (PRNewswire delivered by Newstex) -- Terumo Cardiovascular Systems (Terumo CVS) announced that it filed a patent infringement complaint on August ## in the Northern District of California against Maquet...130000001300100013001002070000000701400007014009070140180700100007001005020000000200200002002008020020060400000004016000040160319/2/2008 10:23:35 AM18000000180180001900000019001000190010221900200019002013PR Newswire USPRN-0005-27829574CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS INCCVS CORPCSIICVSNewsNewstex