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Shire: Too Big For Its Niches

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When UK specialty pharmaceutical company Shire Pharmaceuticals announced its $4 billion all-share acquisition of Canada's BioChem Pharma in December, the markets punished it with a 16% drop in share price. But Shire is getting too big to acquire merely niche product opportunities.
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