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...In 2013, KKR acquired Panasonic’s healthcare division, a business it listed in 2021. It also owns assets ranging from supermarket chain Seiyu to semiconductor manufacturer Kokusai Electric....
...In September, Carlyle shut its US consumer, media and retail private equity investment group and dismissed some investment staff....
...The sector has trillions of dollars invested in industries from real estate and healthcare to energy and manufacturing....
...“But from a consumer perspective, you also want the payments to be enough that you can still get access to care.”...
...L Catterton, a consumer-focused investment firm, has hired Peter Chang as managing partner and co-head of private credit. He joins from Oaktree Capital Management....
...conditions are fully in line with global company health and safety standards that exceed local requirements, they meet living wage commitments, and offer significant additional benefits such as housing, free healthcare...
...However, Smith pointed out that despite attracting attention for his technology investments, the sector is only the third-largest in his fund, behind healthcare and consumer staples....
...Job moves Education publisher Pearson has hired Omid Kordestani, former executive chair of Twitter, to lead its board as it shifts its focus to its direct-to-consumer digital service....
...He was previously Americas head of healthcare for Credit Suisse....
...Citigroup healthcare investment banker Jorge Barreiro has been hired by Deutsche Bank as a managing director, says Bloomberg....
...The private equity group has been stepping up its own attempts to buy European healthcare companies....
...In any case, healthcare groups aren’t queueing up to issue warnings about Carlyle....
...“Covid has really been an accelerant for a lot of healthcare trends that we had identified several years ago,” said Stephen Wise, who heads healthcare investments at Carlyle, the $260bn investment firm....
...Nestlé, alongside consumer goods rivals such as Reckitt Benckiser, has at the same time been adding to its interests in healthcare....
...The deal prices the wholly-owned subsidiary, Takeda Consumer Healthcare, at over a third lower than what Takeda had hoped for earlier this year. Yet Takeda is in no position to complain....
...Blackstone has paid ¥242bn ($2.3bn) to buy Takeda Consumer Healthcare in what the US private equity group hopes will spur a series of similar asset sales, ultimately creating a Japanese national champion...
...Point72 Ventures has hired Scott Barclay to head its new healthcare investment team. He was formerly a partner and head of DCVC’s healthcare group....
...McKinsey reckons up to $250bn of current US healthcare expenditure could become virtualised....
...The impairment charge wrote off almost a third of the previous book value of Mead Johnson and pushed the consumer goods group to a £3.7bn net loss for 2019....
...“They went long in consumer at the wrong time,” said a corporate lawyer who worked on the Poundworld transaction....
...British consumer goods group Reckitt Benckiser has agreed to pay up to $1.4bn to US authorities, resolving investigations into how a former subsidiary marketed a drug used to treat addiction to painkillers...
...Ahead of a shareholder vote on the consumer goods’ group’s simplification plan — which involves moving from a dual UK-Dutch structure to a single legal entity — the fund manager has said it has misgivings...
...The company has been at pains to emphasise that India remains a priority market for GSK’s consumer healthcare division....
...Olympus cameras are famous among consumers and infamous among investors....
...The US private equity group said on Wednesday that it beat its original target of $5bn, and will focus on the consumer and retail, financial services, telecommunications, media and technology, healthcare...
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