Company: ABBV
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001551152-25-000020
Chunk: 89

Company: AbbVie Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 3
Chunk 89
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 integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

55     |  2024 Form 10-K

AbbVie Inc. and Subsidiaries

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

Note 1 Background 

BackgroundThe principal business of AbbVie Inc. (AbbVie or the company) is the discovery, development, manufacturing and sale of a broad line of therapies that address some of the world's most complex and serious diseases. AbbVie's products are generally sold worldwide directly to wholesalers, distributors, government agencies, health care facilities, specialty pharmacies and independent retailers from AbbVie-owned distribution centers and public warehouses. Certain products (including aesthetic products and devices) are also sold directly to physicians and other licensed healthcare providers. In the United States, AbbVie distributes pharmaceutical products principally through independent wholesale distributors, with some sales directly to retailers, pharmacies, patients or other customers. Outside the United States, AbbVie sells products primarily to wholesalers or through distributors, and depending on the market works through largely centralized national payers systems to agree on reimbursement terms. AbbVie was incorporated in Delaware on April 10, 2012. On January 1, 2013, AbbVie became an independent, publicly-traded company as a result of the distribution by Abbott Laboratories (Abbott) of 100% of the outstanding common stock of AbbVie to Abbott's shareholders.

AbbVie completed its previously announced acquisitions of ImmunoGen, Inc. (ImmunoGen) on February 12, 2024 and Cerevel Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. (Cerevel Therapeutics) on August 1, 2024. See Note 5 and Note 10 for additional information regarding these acquisitions.

Note 2 Summary of Significant Accounting Policies 

Use of EstimatesThe consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and necessarily include amounts based on estimates and assumptions by management. Actual results could differ from those amounts. Significant estimates include amounts for rebates, pension and other post-employment benefits, income taxes, litigation, valuation of goodwill and intangible assets and contingent consideration liabilities.Basis of ConsolidationThe consolidated financial statements include the accounts of AbbVie and all of its subsidiaries in which a controlling interest is maintained. Controlling interest is determined by majority ownership interest and the absence of substantive third-party participating rights or, in the case of variable interest entities, where AbbVie is determined to be the primary beneficiary. Investments in companies over which