Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Completes Tender Offer for KOSAN Biosciences, Inc.

PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) announced today that stockholders of Kosan Biosciences Incorporated (NASDAQ: KOSN) (“Kosan”) tendered approximately 41,449,606 shares, including 1,682,151 shares subject to guaranteed delivery procedures, representing about 97.1% of the shares outstanding. According to the terms of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s tender offer for all of the outstanding common stock of Kosan, shares that were validly tendered and not withdrawn have been accepted for payment. The tender offer expired at midnight EDT on June 25, 2008, and was not extended.

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