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LGC process shows industry convergence in the lab space

UK lab group LGC is being sold by Rothschild with several private equity houses and industrials in the frame. The interest shows that the food, environmental, clinical testing and diagostic lab spaces are starting to converge.
November 27, 2015

French line up for Poland

The French are queuing up to buy Poland’s largest care home operator say several sources. That should put a rocket under the Polish elderly care market.
November 27, 2015

NMC buys Fakih IVF fertility group in the Emirates

Emirati healthcare chain NMC Health is buying a 51% stake in Fakih IVF, one of the largest fertility groups in the country in a dramatically high valuation. The announcement came on 24 November 2015, one week after NMC formally withdrew from the Al Noor bid against Mediclinic.
November 26, 2015

Burtzoorg CEO Jos de Blok takes on big four Dutch insurers

Jos de Blok, CEO of the Dutch homecare group Buurtzorg, has announced that he will enter the statutory health insurance market in 2017 with lauch details on December 6. Four big insurers - Achmea, VGZ, CZ and Menzis – have 90% of the market. Sources say there have been no successful new entries for 34 years. Could Jos de Blok break the curse?
November 24, 2015

Singapore’s largest nursing home group looks abroad

With just six homes and 1,000 beds Orange Valley, owned by KV Asia Capital, is Sinagpore’s largest private nursing home group. Here is an interesting interview with its CEO in the Business Times. http://www.businesstimes.com.sg/hub/enterprise-50-2015/nursing-home-provider-rides-the-silver-tsunami
November 20, 2015

Malaysia targets Gulf

Malaysia is trying hard to attract more healthcare travellers from the Gulf Cooperation Council. In total Malaysia claims to have attracted 880,000 from around the world in 2014 and wants to hit 1m by 2016. To appeal to GCC citiziens, it is offering total Halal treatments.
November 20, 2015

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.
November 20, 2015

Debt for equity swap looks inevitable at Four Seasons

Four Seasons is the latest big British nursing home group to hit problems. It should make its December debt payment, but will run out of money by June/July 2016, say our sources. Guy Hands, the high profile boss of owner private equity investor Terra Firma, faces critiicism.
November 19, 2015

ehealth grows in Colombia

Colombian e-health project Axon is convincing health insurance companies to contract chronic disease management with them. It has already taken on anticoagulant and oxygen therapy with patients referred from the public system. We speak to medical partner Carlos Augusto López about the challenges in the sector and future plans.
November 19, 2015
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