UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549



FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): May 22, 2014



Omnicare, Inc.
 
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its Charter)

Delaware
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)

 
 
1-8269
31-1001351
(Commission File Number)
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

900 Omnicare Center
201 East 4th Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
(Address of Principal Executive Offices, Including Zip Code)

(513) 719-2600
(Registrant's telephone number, including area code)

Not applicable
(Former name and former address, if changed since last report)

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Item 5.02.
Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers
(b) On May 22, 2014, John L. Workman, Chief Executive Officer of Omnicare, Inc. (the “Company”), notified the Company that the effective date of his previously announced retirement as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Company will be June 30, 2014. Mr. Workman will be available to the Company for informal consultation through the end of the year. As previously announced, effective on June 30, 2014, Nitin Sahney, President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company, will become President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of the Company.

Item 7.01     Regulation FD Disclosure
The Company also reaffirmed its previously issued full-year 2014 guidance from continuing operations: revenue of $6.3 billion to $6.4 billion; adjusted cash earnings per diluted share (excluding special items) of $3.64 to $3.72; and cash flows from continuing operations of $475 million to $550 million (excluding settlement payments).

Forward-looking Statements
This report contains certain statements that constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, all statements regarding the intent, belief or current expectations regarding the matters discussed or incorporated by reference in this document (including statements as to "beliefs," "expectations," "anticipations," "intentions" or similar words) and all statements which are not statements of historical fact. Such forward-looking statements, together with other statements that are not historical, are based on management's current expectations and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, contingencies and other factors that could cause results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those stated. The most significant of these risks and uncertainties are described in the Company's Form 10-K, Form 10-Q and Form 8-K reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and include, but are not limited to: overall economic, financial, political and business conditions; trends in the long-term healthcare and pharmaceutical industries; the ability to attract new clients and service contracts and retain existing clients and service contracts; the ability to consummate pending acquisitions on favorable terms or at all; trends for the continued growth of the Company's businesses; trends in drug pricing; delays and reductions in reimbursement by the government and other payors to customers and to the Company; the overall financial condition of the Company's customers and the ability of the Company to assess and react to such financial condition; the ability of vendors and business partners to continue to provide products and services to the Company; the successful integration of acquired companies and realization of contemplated synergies; the continued availability of suitable acquisition candidates; the ability to attract and retain needed management; competition for qualified staff in the healthcare industry; variations in demand for the Company's products and services; variations in costs or expenses; the ability to implement productivity, consolidation and cost reduction efforts and to realize anticipated benefits; the potential impact of legislation, government regulations, and other government action and/or executive orders, including those relating to Medicare Part D, including its implementing regulations and any subregulatory guidance; reimbursement and drug pricing policies and changes in the interpretation and application of such policies, including changes in calculation of average wholesale price; discontinuation of reporting average wholesale price, and/or implementation of new pricing benchmarks; legislative and regulatory changes impacting long term care pharmacies or specialty pharmacies; government budgetary pressures and shifting priorities; federal and state budget shortfalls; efforts by payors to control costs; changes to or termination of the Company's contracts with pharmaceutical benefit managers, Medicare Part D Plan sponsors and/or commercial health insurers or to the proportion of the Company's business covered by specific contracts; the outcome of disputes and litigation; potential liability for losses not covered by, or in excess of, insurance; the impact of executive separations; the impact of benefit plan terminations; the impact of differences in actuarial assumptions and estimates as compared to eventual outcomes; events or circumstances which result in an impairment of assets, including but not limited to, goodwill and identifiable intangible assets; the final outcome of divestiture activities; market conditions; the outcome of audit, compliance, administrative, regulatory, or investigatory reviews; volatility in the market for the Company's stock and in the financial markets generally; access to adequate capital and financing; changes in our credit ratings given by rating agencies; timing of conversions of our convertible debt; changes in tax laws and regulations; changes in accounting rules and standards; the impacts of potential cybersecurity risks and/or incidents; costs to comply with the Company's Corporate Integrity Agreement; and unexpected costs and interruptions from the implementation of our new information technology system. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, the Company's actual results, performance or achievements could differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, such forward-looking statements. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Except as otherwise required by law, the Company does not undertake any obligation to publicly release any revisions to these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.







SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Omnicare, Inc. has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
OMNICARE, INC.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
By:
 
/s/ Alexander M. Kayne
 
 
 
 
 
 
Name: Alexander M. Kayne
 
 
 
 
 
 
Title:   Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Dated:  May 27, 2014