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Health Care - 1996
Corporate Services has acquired GWL Holdings, the medical staff agency which trades under the names Medacs and The Recruitment Group, for £12m.
22-Oct-1996
Smith & Nephew, the healthcare concern, has acquired Yunhab Meditech and ChangMyung, its two South Korean distributors, for £4m.
18-Oct-1996
Takare is to merge with Court Cavendish to create the TC Group, which will be the biggest company in the care homes sector with a market value of £254m.
07-Sep-1996
Hearst Corporation of the US has acquired Multilex, the supplier of medical information to the UK healthcare sector, for undisclosed terms.
20-Aug-1996
Priory Hospitals, the acute psychiatric company, has been bought from Community Psychiatric Centers of America by a management buy-out for £88m.
24-Jun-1996
Harmony Healthcare has acquired the Serene Care Group for £9.5m, thus increasing Harmony's nursing homes from 5 to 12.
17-Jun-1996
Bupa has bought back 30 nursing homes from Greenalls, the pub company, for £68m.
02-May-1996
VDC is buying ProCare, the dental equipment concern, from Enviromed for about £4m.
02-Mar-1996
Unilever has made an agreed bid of $770m for Helene Curtis, the US personal products company.
15-Feb-1996
Bausch & Lomb of the US has acquired Award, the Scottish maker of disposable contact lenses, for an undisclosed sum.
15-Feb-1996
Biocompatibles International is acquiring Atlantis Catheter Company, the maker of balloon angioplasty products, for up to $21m.
10-Jan-1996