Coloplast’s acquisition of Kerecis: Considerations and implications

Coloplast’s announcement is the latest large and significant advanced wound care (AWC) industry deal. As the high level details have already been thoroughly disseminated by press releases and news aggregators, our analysis of the Danish multinational’s acquisition of Kerecis will focus on: What makes this deal noteworthy in the context of the current advanced wound … Read More

Bioventus-Misonix M&A: AWC Continues “Bleed” Into Adjacencies

Yesterday (29 Jul 2021), Bioventus and Misonix jointly announced an M&A. This deal is particularly significant in the advanced wound care (AWC) space for three reasons: The combined entity will be a “new” relatively large advanced wound care player (though similar to Misonix pre-deal, not necessarily with AWC as its sole focus). This is also … Read More

Urgo’s M&A of SteadMed: Here’s What You Need to Know

There has just been another significant wound care acquisition. French MNC Urgo Medical just announced the M&A of Texas-based SteadMed Medical. The resulting entity will be known as Urgo Medical North America. If you’re an advanced wound care stakeholder inside North America, you may be wondering, “Who is Urgo Medical?” If you’re an advanced wound … Read More

Why Mölnlycke’s Acquisition of SastoMed Is a Big Deal

What happened? Today (2018.07.02), Mölnlycke Health Care announced its acquisition of SastoMed GmbH. Mölnlycke is of course known in the industry as a top global wound care (also wound prevention and surgical) product brand, particularly in Europe and the United States. SastoMed, a much smaller German firm, was a subsidiary of SanderStrothmann GmbH, a company which assesses, formulates, … Read More

The Case for Emerging Market Wound Care

Demographic and economic trends, combined with the sheer magnitude of the unmet needs in the emerging markets represents the largest untapped opportunity for advanced wound care products and services globally. Introduction As the business of advanced wound care in North America and Western Europe has boomed for the past two decades, most major wound care … Read More