AmerisourceBergen Announces Date and Time for Earnings Release, Conference Call and Webcast

July 1, 2002

The Company will host a conference call to discuss the results at 11:00 am Eastern Daylight Savings Time on July 31, 2002.

	   Participating in the conference call will be:
    R. David Yost, President & Chief Executive Officer
    Kurt J. Hilzinger, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating
     Officer
    Michael D. DiCandilo, Senior Vice President & Chief Financial
     Officer
	   The dial-in numbers for the live call will be as follows:
    800-553-5260  from within the United States.  No access code
     required.
    612-332-1210  from outside the United States.  No access code
     required.

Users are encouraged to log on to the webcast approximately 15 minutes in advance of the scheduled start time of the call.

Following the live call, replays will be made available on the Internet and via telephone. A replay of the webcast will be posted on www.amerisourcebergen.com approximately two hours after the completion of the call and will remain available for thirty days. To access the telephone replay from within the US, dial 800-475-6701. From outside the US, dial 320-365-3844. The access code is 643950.

The telephone replay will be available from 4:15 p.m. EST on 7/31/02 to 11:59 p.m. on 8/7/02.

    About AmerisourceBergen Corporation

The company is also a leader in the institutional pharmacy marketplace. With approximately $39 billion in annualized operating revenues, AmerisourceBergen is headquartered in Valley Forge, PA, and employs more than 13,000 people serving over 25,000 customers.

    Forward-Looking Statements

The following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements: the risk that the businesses of AmeriSource and Bergen Brunswig will not be integrated successfully; failure to obtain and retain expected synergies; and other economic, business, competitive and/or regulatory factors affecting the business of AmerisourceBergen generally.

More detailed information about these factors is set forth in AmerisourceBergen's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent 10-Q, its Annual Report on Form 10-K for fiscal 2001, and AmeriSource's and Bergen's joint proxy statement-prospectus dated August 1, 2001.

AmerisourceBergen, AmeriSource and Bergen Brunswig are under no obligation to (and expressly disclaim any such obligation to) update or alter their forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

CONTACT:          AmerisourceBergen Corporation, Valley Forge
                  Michael N. Kilpatric, 610/727-7118
                  mkilpatric@amerisource.com