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...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....
...The board’s choice of successor, John Flannery, chief executive of GE Healthcare, was also somewhat unexpected....
...Constellation Brands, the beer and wine group, and DaVita Healthcare Partners, the kidney dialysis group, also feature in the top 10....
...“Self-driving cars basically work today,” says Chris Dixon, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz. “The challenge is cultural and regulatory.”...
...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...
...He describes the experience as a fast-track management course, including the tricky issue of family relations....
...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....
...US dialysis clinic operator DaVita is to acquire HealthCare Partners, which operates physician groups in several US states, for $4.42bn, reports the FT....
...However, Duncan Tatton-Brown, chief executive of Ocado, played down the impact from the past corporate governance issues....
...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....
...● Longbow Capital has launched a tax-efficient venture capital fund investing in emerging healthcare, life science and wellbeing companies....
...About Bird Eye Foods, Inc....
...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....
...Dominic Murphy, a KKR partner, and Ornella Barra, Mr Pessina’s long-term partner and director of wholesale, will sit on the board, alongside George Fairweather, the finance director, Steve Duncan, who heads...
...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....
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