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Evolving Strategy Guides American Esoteric Labs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIII No. 14 – October 16, 2006 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Back in April 2004, when American Esoteric Laboratories, Inc.(AEL)launched operations, its declared ambition was to become a national esoteric testing firm. However, given the positive experiences from its acquisition of Memphis Pathology Laboratories in September 2004, AEL h…
Some Random Insights About LabCorp’s Thinking
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIII No. 13 – September 25, 2006 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Having scooped up a number of mid-sized laboratory companies in recent years, Laboratory Corporation of America is working to integrate these operations and continue to expand its market share. In a recent conversation with financial analyst Bill Bonnello of Wachovia Securiti…
Sonic Healthcare & CPL Make First Acquisition
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XIII No. 12 – September 5, 2006 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Expanding from its base in Texas, Clinical Pathology Laboratories, Inc. (CPL) has acquired Cognoscenti Health Institute, LLC of Orlando, Florida. The deal was done discreetly and gives Sonic Healthcare, Ltd., parent of CPL, a solid foothold in Florida. Cognoscenti has also ma…
Picking Top Ten Stories Of 2005 for Lab Industry
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 17 – December 5, 2005 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: THE DARK REPORT offers its pic…
Private Equity Firms: Ready to Buy More Labs?
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 16 – November 14, 2005 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Times are good in the laboratory industry. At least that’s the opinion of a growing number of professional investors. They are searching throughout the country for laboratories to acquire. They are motivated by the consistent financial performance of many lab companies, bot…
Sonic HealthCare In US: How Will Market Change?
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 13 – September 12, 2005 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: LabOne, Inc.’s acquisition by Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, announced in early August, removes, as a competitor, a lab company that was growing and beginning to credibly challenge the two blood brothers. Just weeks later, Sonic Healthcare Ltd.’s purchase of Clinical Pat…
Sonic Healthcare Buys Clinical Pathology Labs
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 13 – September 12, 2005 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: It’s one of the most interesting lab acquisitions to take place in the past decade. Pathologist-owners of Austin, Texas-based Clinical Pathology Laboratories, Inc. are selling up to 85% of their lab company to Sonic Healthcare, Ltd, Australia’s largest laboratory firm. Th…
Quest Pays $934 Million In Acquisition of LabOne
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 12 – August 22, 2005 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: In many ways, this acquisition would appear to be the “same old story” of lab consolidation that has marked the lab industry for almost 20 years. Yet, beneath the surface is an unexpected dimension: a motive to use the resources of both companies to better position Quest …
For Quest and LabCorp, The Story is “Molecular”
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 11 – August 1, 2005 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Wall Street likes the potential of molecular diagnostics to infuse new revenues and operating profits into the laboratory industry. That is one reason Quest Diagnostics Incorporated and Laboratory Corporation of America are assertively seeking exclusive access to new molecula…
LabCorp Buys Esoterix For $150 Million in Cash
By Robert Michel | From the Volume XII No. 6 – April 18, 2005 Issue
CEO SUMMARY: Laboratory Corporation of America continues to display an appetite to grow by acquisition. However, its purchase of Esoterix, Inc. creates unique management problems for LabCorp, because Esoterix is itself a product of a lab acquisition strategy. Over the past ten years, Esot…
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