Imcera
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Board recommendation for corporate name change to Mallinckrodt Group, Inc. will be considered at a March 15 special shareholders meeting in St. Louis. President and CEO Ray Holman says the Imcera name "no longer reflects our current business or our future vision and direction." Currently, he points out, "70% of [the company's] business is already conducted under the Mallinckrodt name" through the medical products and specialty chemicals operations. The animal health products unit, Pitman-Moore, would change its name to Mallinckrodt Veterinary under the board's proposal. The company, formerly International Mining and Chemicals Corp. (IMC), took the name Imcera in 1990, four years after it purchased Mallinckrodt and the year after it bought Coopers Animal Health. Corporate headquarters, currently located in Northbrook, Illinois, will be relocating to St. Louis in mid-March