2015年6月15日，Actavis已经正式完成对Allergan的收购，并更名为Allergan，在纽交所的股票代码由ACT变成AGN。不过，在加拿大和美国的仿制药业务仍将保留Actavis的名称，原因是老客户已经能够熟知了这个名字。

What's in a name? For newly transformed Allergan, branded sales

June 15, 2015

Bye-bye, Actavis. The drugmaker has officially adopted its recent buyout's moniker, meaning it'll be known as Allerganfrom here on out.

As part of the switch, on Monday the company traded in its "ACT" ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange for the revived "AGN," and it put out a redesigned logo and website that it says mirror the changes it's undergone since the two companies agreed to join hands last November.

"We are ensuring that our corporate identity reflects the transformation of our company within the pharmaceutical industry and our position as a dynamic new breed of company," CEO Brent Saunders said in a statement.

That transformation includes a newfound focus on branded meds--an area it began seriously beefing up with its $25 billion deal for Forest Laboratories in 2014. It bulked that business up further with the Allergan buy, adding products like blockbuster wrinkle-fighter Botox.

And it doesn't plan to stop there. Doubling its branded drug revenue this year is on the agenda for Saunders' company as part of its "growth pharma" ambitions--or, in other words, the blueprints management has laid out to surpass Big Pharma's sluggish expansion rates despite the drugmaker's Big Pharma size.

So far, it's succeeded. In Q1, branded sales increased to $1.7 billion from $572 million year-over-year, with the old Allergan's branded business chipping in $258 million of that haul.

But just because the one-time copycat specialist has new objectives doesn't mean its retired name is going away altogether. The pharma will retain the tag to refer to its U.S. and Canada generics business, it said.