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Synergy Health

August 2012

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  • Epic Code:
  • SYR
  • Price:
  • 916p
Synergy has completed the acquisition of SRI/Surgical Express, a Nasdaq-listed group that rents out surgical instruments and hospital gowns, for £24.9m. It is paying £16.2m in cash for SRI and taking on £8.7m in debt.SRI is the market leader in outsourced hospital sterilisation services (HSS) with seven such contracts. Synergy's plan is to merge SRI's network of ten service centres with its other recent acquisition, MSI Surgical, to reduce costs through synergies, while creating an entity generating hospital sterilisation revenues of US$42m (£27.2m), making it the largest supplier of HSS in the US.Separately Synergy has announced that Q1trading has been in-line with board expectations, with revenues up to low single dig ...

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