David Yost isn't choking on the $7 billion acquisition of Bergen Brunswig. That's because he's been slashing costs all along. Soon after the federal Trade Commission cleared the merger of drug wholesalers AmeriSource and Bergen Brunswig in August, Chief Executive David Yost threw a dinner for 70 executives from both companies. At the Four Seasons? Try a burger and hot dog cookout near headquarters in Valley Forge, Pa. "You'd better know how much your ticket cost to fly here," Yost warned the Bergen newcomers. He himself stays at under-$100-a-night Mclntosh Inns, flies coach and answers his own phone.
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