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One of Washington's 12 largest public companies formally came into existance recently as VWR Corp.'s board of directors met for the first time to finalizedetails of the spin-off agreement with Univar Corp. which made VWR an independent, publically traded company.
VWR Corp. will be traded over-the-counter under the symbol VWRX.
Univar announced in December its plans to spin-off its three non-chemical distribution operations in the form of a new company, VWR Corp., and to distribute all of the new company's stock to current Univar shareholders on s...