Orpea entering Brazilian market with 2000-bed joint venture

French nursing home behemoth Orpea has announced two joint ventures with fellow countryman Philippe Austruy’s holding company, SIS Group, that will see 2,000 nursing home beds built in Brazil and 1,000 in Portugal over the next 2-3 years. We talk to Orpea and to its Brazilian rivals.

Paris-based real estate company enters Spain

Primonial REIM, a real estate asset management company based in Paris, has continued its European expansion by acquiring a rehabilitation and elderly care clinic in Barcelona taking it south of the Pyrenees for the first time.