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...was part of the team from the start, has been involved in deals including the leveraged buyouts of cable operators ComHem and Kabel Baden-Württemberg, as well as the acquisition of healthcare provider Gambro...
...Dag Andresen will be replaced by a Swedish executive, Marika Fredriksson, who was previously at Gambro, the dialysis products maker, and Volvo Construction Equipment....
...The third senior Swede at Vestas is the new chief financial officer, Marika Fredriksson, a former executive at Volvo, Autoliv and Gambro....
...Investor and private equity firm EQT, Gambro’s owners, and Gambro both declined to comment....
...Looked at one way, Baxter’s agreed $4bn cash acquisition of Swedish dialysis-product maker Gambro appears to be a screaming bargain. The companies expect $300m in annual cost savings by 2017....
...Baxter spent $4bn buying Swedish dialysis-product maker Gambro, but it was the world’s second biggest copper producer that really splashed the cash....
...Gambro in turn is owned by Investor AB and private equity group EQT....
...One of the triggers for changing the rule seems to have been Investor’s takeover of medical products company Gambro last year....
...Just last year, Investor acquired Gambro, the world’s largest maker of kidney dialysis products, for $5.4 billion....
...last 12 months it sold WM Data, the IT services company, to Logica-CMG, split up Electrolux, the white goods company, sold the rental business of Atlas Copco, the industrial tools company, and delisted Gambro...
...It has taken an activist stance in Swedish corporate deals, such as the recent purchase of Gambro, the healthcare company....
...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....
...Sweden’s powerful Wallenberg family on Friday completed its $5.4bn takeover of Gambro, the medical technology group, after more than 90 per cent of shareholders approved the deal....
...Investor and EQT have a plan for Gambro that will require financing....
...Investor currently holds 19.9 per cent of Gambro’s equity and 26.3 per cent of voting rights....
...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....
...Other core holdings, such as banking group SEB, dialysis company Gambro and truckmaker Scania also performed well....
...The sale will be completed in the first half of this year, Gambro said, adding that revenue growth in 2005 would be in line with 2004, around 6 to 8 per cent....
...Gambro's A shares were up 3 per cent at SKr92.5 before trading was halted, while the B shares were 2.9 per cent higher at SKr89.5....
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