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Liquidity crisis? What liquidity crisis?

Set up a business in July 2011 with a medtech product, buy a small UK ambulance business, IPO on the Frankfurt stock market in October and then make more acquisitions through bond issues. Liquidity crisis? What liquidity crisis?...
January 10, 2012

Mediq pays over 12 times EBITA for Assist

Listed Pan-European pharmaceutical and medical technology distributor Mediq has paid €95m for Assist, a big German homecare distributor of medtech products with sales of €70m in 2010. The deal makes it second only to Gesundheit GHD. But has Mediq overpaid? Analysts say it has paid over 12 times EBITA for the business but return on capital employed in the division is a whopping 31%. We investigate....
November 10, 2011

Anima wins 6,000 staff contract

Medicover and other subscription healthcare providers face a new challenge in Romania from A&D Pharma, a pharmaceutical distributor and pharmacist chain which is rapidly building a subscriptions offshoot Anima....
November 2, 2011

A buyers market

Healthcare services is a buyers market today. Victor Chu at consultant Candesic reckons that around half all companies which try to sell are failing to find a buyer. We look at why and what the future holds....
July 13, 2011

Figures confirm soft German market

The total German market for diagnostic products dropped 0.1% in the fourth quarter of 2010 to €2.157bn according to the German Verband der Diagnostica-Industrie....
June 7, 2011

Interview: Denis Ribon, Global Head of Healthcare, 3i

Why is private equity player 3i so bullish on healthcare and care services in Europe? We talk to Denis Ribon, 3i partner and global head of the healthcare sector, about how Europe compares to Asia and the long-term impact of the recession and budget deficits. 3i is in a good position to know. It has 20 full-time investment executives covering the sector across Europe, North America and China, India and South East Asia. It has also been fairly surefooted in its investments…...
January 26, 2011

New brokerage model for teleradiology

Brokage could become the new model for teleradiology, where images are read remotely by radiologists. Swedish group RxEye has just raised SKR20m (EUR2.1m) for its system which marries buyers and sellers and makes procurement much, much simpler. Chief executive Magnus Hok plans to roll out the model across Europe and sees applications in pathology and cardiology as well....
October 15, 2010

Bioiatriki talks to Unilabs

Bioiatriki, the big Greek diagnostic group which has some of the most impressive labs in Europe, is in discussions with Unilabs....
September 22, 2010

FREE BLOG HOLISTIC CLINICS – the way through the recession

As Europe heads deep into the slump, private healthcare will not escape unscathed. The way forward is for businesses to set up holistic clinics, focused on a particular condition, which deliver high quality, low cost care to patients. To work, these have to be based upon close alliances with insurers and medtech suppliers...
December 17, 2008
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