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...Mr Borg, whose organisation works with local state governments to improve investor protection, says single or widowed seniors are vulnerable to financial scams on online dating platforms and homecare provision...
...“Food is still relatively fragmented compared to beverages or homecare,” he says....
...There is short-term pricing pressure on US homecare contracts, but it has the highest growth rates and best margins of all Linde’s business units....
...Three years ago it paid $4.6bn to acquire Lincare, a US provider of homecare respiratory services and equipment....
...The competition authority said the fines were based on the size of the respective markets in France, which were €4.2bn for homecare products in 2006, and about €7bn for personal care....
...Linde declined to comment on the details of its internal financing structure but it confirmed it was claiming tax relief in the US on debt used to acquire Lincare Holdings Inc, a homecare service company...
...Many suffer from respiratory diseases and many command disposable incomes high enough to pay for homecare....
...Last year, Linde agreed to pay $4.6bn to acquire Lincare Holdings, a US provider of respiratory homecare services....
...Ageing populations and the health authorities’ desire to encourage homecare are long-term growth drivers....
...“Homecare is a fast growing market niche for industrial gases companies, driven by healthcare cost cutting,” he said....
...Acquisitions in homecare mean adding patients to the existing network i.e. increasing plant and service network utilization and improving the underlying margins and ROCE....
...Linde wants to acquire Lincare to expand its healthcare activities and bolster its footprint in the valuable US homecare market....
...Paul notes that Linde, the German industrial gas producer, took five days to release the price sensitive announcement of its takeover of the US provider of oxygen and respiratory homecare services....
...USD 4.6 billion Ad-hoc-announcement according to section 15 WpHG Munich, 1 July 2012 – Linde has signed a merger agreement with Lincare Holdings Inc., a US-based homecare health company....
...Linde , the industrial gas producer, rose 2.8 per cent to €134.30 after European regulators extended the deadline for its bid for the European homecare arm of Air Products & Chemicals Inc, the US chemicals...
...Jack Russo, analyst at Edward Jones, said most shareholders owned P&G for the variety of its beauty and homecare products. “Pringles is really the antithesis of that. It’s one brand....
...He led homecare marketing after the merger with Benckiser in 1999 and then headed European healthcare, moving to category development, overseeing marketing R&D, research, and product design in 2006....
...Res Care , the homecare provider, added 6 per cent to $13.20....
...Sales of laundry and homecare products, which include Persil washing powder, fell or stayed flat in most markets, with prices down more than 4 per cent because of promotions and price competition....
...Addus HomeCare, which provides home health care, traded 15.1 per cent below its initial offer price of $10 a share. Telecoms gained....
...The product portfolios are fairly complementary, although there is overlap in homecare....
...Clorox, the first large consumer company to start a “green” cleaning product, said that its Green Works brand had been a significant contributor to its homecare sales growth since its launch in January last...
...Depolabo, a leading provider of pharmaceutical pre-wholesale and contract logistics services in France; a 90 per cent stake in Megapharm, a specialised German distributor of oncology products; and Central Homecare...
...The shares fell 3.3 per cent to €30.81 after it showed slowing growth at its cosmetics, laundry and homecare units, causing its fourth-quarter earnings to miss expectations....
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