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Fresenius

Market Cap $14.66 B As of Mar. 2011
At a Glance
  • Industry: Medical Equipment & Supplies
  • Founded: 1912
  • Country: Germany
  • CEO: Ulf Mark Schneider
  • Employees: 137,552
  • Sales: $21.38 B
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Fresenius SE is a Germany-based holding company of the Fresenius Group, operating in the healthcare sector, with products and services for dialysis, hospitals and outpatient medical care. The Group also offers engineering and services for hospitals and other healthcare facilities. It is organized in four business segments: Fresenius Medical Care, Fresenius Kabi, Fresenius Helios and Fresenius Vamed. Fresenius Medical Care focuses on extracorporeal therapies, dialysis care and manufactures products for patient treatment with chronic kidney failure. Fresenius Kabi specializes in the production and sale of products for infusion therapy, IV generic drugs, clinical nutrition, as well as medical devices and transfusion technology. Fresenius Helios operates 62 hospitals, including five maximum care hospitals in Erfurt, Berlin-Buch, Wuppertal, Schwerin and Krefeld, Germany. Fresenius Vamed operates in the project and management business of health care facilities worldwide. [...] more

Latest News
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  • Fresenius Medical (FMS) Hits New 52-Week High at $74.82

    ...acquired 73 existing clinics, opened 118 new clinics and sold 26 clinics. During 2009, it acquired production lines from Fresenius SE. Fresenius Medical has a 52 week low of $47.19 and a 52 week high of $73.71. The stock’s 50-day moving average is $68.45 and... [...] more

  • Sagent Pharmaceuticals IPO Preview

    ...-- Principal competitors include Baxter International Inc.; Boehringer Ingelheim Group; Fresenius Kabi, a division of Fresenius SE (FMS); Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC (HKMPY.PK), principally as a result of its pending acquisition of Baxter’s (BAX) generic injectable... [...] more

  • Boehner In Iraq To Meet Officials

    ...near-collision that put a departing United … Starting early next week, the Federal Aviation Administration … A unit of Fresenius SE plans next week to resume shipments of a… Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal will sign into law an Arizona-style … A top adviser for President... [...] more

  • Another Air Traffic Controller Asleep

    ...unit of Fresenius SE plans next week to resume shipments of a… Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal will sign into law an Arizona-style … A top adviser for President Barack Obama dismissed him as a … In the brewing battle for New Hampshire, the Tea Party is … US airlines... [...] more

  • Leukemia Drug Shortage May Get Relief

    ...- WASHINGTON -- A unit of Fresenius SE plans next week to resume shipments of a key leukemia drug, helping to alleviate a life-threatening shortage of the drug, although it won't immediately fix the problem, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. The shortage... [...] more

Numbers
Cash on Hand
$1.06 B
Debt
$12.53 B
Revenue
$21.38 B
Assets
$31.63 B
Profit
$832.7 M
Employees
137,552
Sources: Interactive Data, LionShares, Thomson Reuters Fundamentals and Worldscope via FactSet Research Systems; Bloomberg; Forbes.
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