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French care home group plans 4,000 beds network

Clineo, a French elderly care group based in southern France, is completing the acquisition of two nursing homes in Spain totalling 390 beds – and expects to own a network of 4,000 beds in the next three years. Its founder Hervé Le Bocq talks to Healthcare Europa.

How to make money in the Czech outpatient market

Czech outpatient specialist EUC Group (formerly Euroclinicum) is consolidating the outpatient market, and has just released preliminary results for 2016 and announced another acquisition. Healthcare Nova catches up with Jan Hůlek, one of the directors, to talk about the group’s business strategy and how to make money and grow in the outpatient market.

Intermedica tight lipped about plans to sell, IPO – or both

Intermedica, the private Brazilian payor-provider headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is refusing to comment on its prospective stock market flotation or sale - telling Healthcare Nova that, at this stage, it is “not allowed to comment on anything to do with IPOs or strategy”. But according to one sources in Brazil, Intermedica may go for a mix of both IPO and sale.

Unilabs to triple sales

Pan-European lab and imaging group Unilabs plans to triple its size in three years, CEO Jos Lamers tells us. How?

Medsi to IPO?

The Russian conglomerate Sistema, which owns the Medsi hospital chain, will take the group public, says Reuters.

Holland Venture buys dermatology specialist Mauritsklinieken

Dutch private equity house Holland Venture has bought a "significant majority stake" in dermatology chain Mauritsklinieken from SJMG and Waterland. Ewout Prins, managing partner at Holland Venture, tells Healthcare Europa he is looking for buy-and-build opportunities.

MDMG posts impressive 2016 results – and has two more acquisitions in the pipeline

Russian "mother and child" specialist, MD Medical Group (MDMG), saw growth of 28% for sales and 37% for EBITDA year-on-year in 2016. Healthcare Europa understands it has two acquisitions in the pipeline in separate regions of Russia and the group also expects to double capital expenditure on greenfield projects next year.

Will Ambea follow the trend of successful Nordic IPOs?

Triton and KKR are to sell a lot of shares in the Sweden-based elderly and social care provider Ambea IPO - which will raise just SEK 200m (€21m) gross for the company itself, and SEK 2.3 billion (€240m) minus that SEK 200m for those two private equity companies. Will the IPO be as successful as recent Nordics IPOs in the healthcare sector? We speak to CEO Frederik Gren.

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