Owens & Minor Completes Acquisition of the Movianto Group

Owens & Minor, Inc.

announced that, effective August 31, 2012, it has completed the previously announced acquisition of the majority of the Movianto Group, a leading European healthcare third-party logistics (3PL) business, from Celesio AG, for approximately €130 million. The acquisition, which was funded by available cash, is expected to be dilutive to earnings per share in 2012, neutral in 2013 and accretive thereafter. Movianto serves pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturer customers globally from 23 logistics centers in 11 European countries with approximately 1,800 teammates, providing warehousing, transportation, and cold chain logistics, as well as value-added services such as order-to-cash, repackaging and relabeling of products. Movianto's operational