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Q&M to hive off Chinese ceramics arm

Highly acquisitive Q&M Dental Group is to spin off Qinhuangdao Aidite High Technical Ceramic Co., a dental materials manufacturer, and list it on mainland China’s New Third Board in Beijing. Q&M has 51% stake in Qinhuangdao.

FREE BLOG The growth in Chinese medical tourism

A fascinating study from consultants L.E.K. suggests that we will see rapid growth in healthcare tourism from China. Healthcare Nova believes that outbound tourism could transform the prospects for private operators across the region and beyond.

Report: Medical tourism – Chinese patients proliferate internationally

In 2015 there will be more than 100m outbound trips of Chinese from Mainland China, a number that has doubled in just 5 years despite a structural slowdown in GDP growth. This wave of humanity and wealth is transforming the global tourism and aerospace industry for sure, but it is also having some profound effects in other, perhaps less obvious, sectors. Helen Chen and Stephen Sunderland of L.E.K. Consulting in Shanghai analyse the market.

Exuberant international expansion

Operators in Emerging Markets are increasingly moving into other countries, often nations halfway around the world. There is a big IPO pipeline to fund all this growth. And investors like TVM Capital and Abraaj are planning massive greenfield site developments.

Tendcare set to expand

Pan-Asian private equity house Olympus Capital Asia recently announced that it has committed $40 million to Tendcare Medical Group, one of the largest private hospital management companies in China.

Chinese psychiatric chain to IPO

Psychiatric chain Wenzhou Kangning Hospital Company is set to pre-market its IPO on October 26 (today), with a two-week investor education period predicted before bookbuilding. The company should have a market capitalisation of over $100m after IPO.

Retirement communities and health insurance to boom among China’s wealthy

No fewer than 70% of richest Chinese are interested in retirement communities, 80% have health insurance, but they still shun private hospitals, according to a new study commissioned by Taikang Life Insurance from Hurun Report which specialises in researching China’s new wealthy. Taikang itself plans to establish a chain of elderly care communities nation-wide.

Report: All listed healthcare service companies active in Emerging Markets

Here we present the first comprehensive list of all 57 quoted healthcare service companies which are active in Emerging Markets. The list includes companies headquartered in the Developed World, who have interests in Emerging Markets, such as Air Liquide, Fresenius or Ramsay Health Care, as well as quoted operators from the region, such as IHH, Apollo or Integrated Diagnostic Holdings. It covers everyone from Chilean hospitals to Egyptian lab operators and from NYSE quoted operators in China to big groups in Malaysia and Indonesia.

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