Can Ron Zwanziger Do It Again?
Executive Summary
In the past two years, Inverness Medical Innovations has paid a total of roughly $500 million to buy five rapid point-of-care (POCT) diagnostic testing businesses, which now lie at the heart of its effort to expand in the POCT realm. These have laid the ground work for four subsequent transactions and related financings, all aimed at making Inverness a world leader in women's health and pregnancy testing. But what's of interest isn't so much the women's health play per se as the company's management tream, which has twice before built up POCT companies, then sold them for significant premiums.
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Inverness Medical Innovations, a point-of-care diagnostics company, made a splash with its $1.6 billion acquisition of Biosite. But the purchase was merely the latest step in a long-time strategy of growing through acquisition.
Wake-up Calls in IVD
Inverness Medical Innovations and Beckman Coulter are currently in a bidding war for Biosite and its point of care BNP test. The fight is just one example of the demand for innovative diagnostic test content. The recent upswing in IVD deal-making, along with renewed VC interest in diagnostics, suggests that the area's potential to drive health care innovation by directing therapy more efficiently is finally being recognized.
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