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Alcon to line up Novartis bid defence

By Andrew Jack in London and Haig Simonian in Zurich

Published: January 11 2010 19:13 | Last updated: January 11 2010 19:16

Contact lens cleaning fluid
A woman drops Alcon’s Opti-Free Replenish contact lens cleaning fluid into her eye

The independent directors of Alcon meet this week to draw up a defence against the planned buy-out of the US eye care business’ minority investors by Novartis as part of a $50bn takeover.

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