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Mediclinic sells to management

Mediclinic, the primary care group in the Czech Republic, was quietly sold to management by Penta Investments, the big Slovak private equity house, at the start of 2014. We look at the main players in the Czech primary care sector.
March 21, 2014

Polish Mandatory Health Insurance/Reform: Presentation, Joe Ryan, CFO, Medicover

Joe has 17 years experience as CFO of Medicover, the only Pan-East European provider of comprehensive medical services from insurance to hospitals, ambulatory centres and diagnostics. Medicover is active across Poland, Germany, Romania, Ukraine, Turkey, Belarus, the Balkans and other ex-Soviet republics. Presented at the Healthcare Europa Annual Conference 2014, The Return of the Bull Market.
March 13, 2014

Orpea buys Senevita

Orpea, the big quoted French nursing home group with operations in Belgium, Spain and Italy, has pipped local contenders to buy Senevita, one of the top three Swiss nursing home chains from Austrian operator Senecura. The acquisition takes Orpea into a fast-growing, but low margin sector. We look at the Swiss market, give you the price and multiple on the deal, talk to Orpea about its plans and examine what Senecura plans to do with the money.
March 11, 2014

Lab groups apply squeeze

Who would ever feel sorry for big reagent manufacturers - Abbott, Roche and Siemens? Well, from what we hear, the big lab groups really are squeezing them dry.
February 10, 2014

Should private investors fund Proton Therapy Centres?

The Proton Therapy Center (PTC) in Prague, one of the very few private proton centres in Europe, is the source of a dispute between Erste Bank, which lent it CZK 4.2bn (€153m) and VZP, the largest Czech insurer. We look at what is going on, and at the business model behind it.
February 7, 2014

Alpha buys Euromedic’s labs in the Czech Republic

Alpha Medical, part of the East European lab chain owned by private equity house Mid Europa, has acquired seven labs from Euromedic in the Czech Republic. The move will almost doubles Alpha's sales. We talk to Peter Lednicky, CEO of Alpha Medical, about the deal, and look at the wider East European lab market.
October 21, 2013

Czech hospital prospects ahead of election

How profitable are the Czech Republic's public and private hospitals? How indebted are they? A new report sheds some light on the situation, showing that some private hospitals are running 16% EBITDA margins. Given that the next general election could lead to a new wave of functional privatisations, this could open up a big - and, apparently, profitable - new sector.
October 18, 2013
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