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...The company already held stakes in the drugmakers Biogen, Johnson & Johnson and Teva Pharmaceuticals and DaVita, a kidney dialysis company. Mr Buffett did not respond to a request for comment....
...Mitsui’s bet on healthcare has resulted in investments in Malaysia’s IHH Healthcare and Singapore-based DaVita Care, a subsidiary of Berkshire-backed dialysis clinic operator DaVita in the US....
...UnitedHealth has also moved into the “provider” sector, and in December spent $4.9bn on DaVita, which operates a network of clinics....
...The German group and Denver-rival DaVita control more than 70 per cent of the US dialysis market, the world’s largest....
...Constellation Brands, the beer and wine group, and DaVita Healthcare Partners, the kidney dialysis group, also feature in the top 10....
...He finds a few companies that are doing the right thing: DaVita, a kidney dialysis provider, earns praise in his book for its “no brag, just facts” culture; so does SAS Institute, the privately owned US...
...The filing also revealed that Mr Buffett has slashed his stake in GlaxoSmithKline, the UK-listed pharmaceuticals company, and increased his holdings in Davita Healthcare Partners, a Colorado hospitals group...
...The deal would signal fresh consolidation in the fast-growing dialysis market, which includes such other leading companies as DaVita and Fresenius....
...DaVita’s deal is expected to close during the fourth quarter of the year and the combined company will be called DaVita HealthCare Partners....
...The cash-and-stock deal will give DaVita, which is backed by Warren Buffett, a way to broaden its reach beyond its core dialysis business....
...The companies likely to be competing for the final stage of the contract are all large non-UK corporations: Davita of the US, Fresenius Medical Care of Germany and Diaverum of Sweden....
...Its biggest rival DaVita serves approximately 128,000 dialysis patients....
...He is a director of Perini Corporation, Analysts International Corporation, and DaVita Inc, as well as two non-profit boards. • SourceFire has appointed John C. Burris as its CEO....
...The higher bid was kept in place by the Wallenbergs despite broader market weakness and the loss of the DaVita contract....
...DaVita, which provides dialysis services in the US, said on Tuesday it had cancelled its contract with Gambro following a US ban on Gambro’s dialysis equipment over safety concerns....
...This catapults FMC back to number one in the world’s largest healthcare market, ahead of DaVita, which in December agreed to pay $3bn for the US dialysis clinics of Sweden’s Gambro....
...cent advance to SKr106 as the company gave the market a pleasant surprise in announcing a special SKr29 a share distribution as part of a one-for-one share split after the sale of its US clinics unit to Davita...
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