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Synergy Health - Acquisition opens doorgrade to huge US market

August 2012

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  • Epic Code:
  • SYR
  • Price:
  • 916p
Synergy has announced the acquisition of SRI, a supplier of US hospital sterilisation services, for £24.9m. SRI provides sterile surgical gowns and instrumentation to hospitals and provides entry to this huge new US$2.9bn market. Synergy's plan is to merge SRI's network of ten service centres with its other recent acquisition, MSI Surgical, to save an annual US$5m through synergies, while creating an entity generating hospital sterilisation revenues of US$42m (£27.2m).Contemporaneously, Synergy released annual results that showed an 8.6% rise in turnover to £312m and 13% increase in pretax profit to £43.4m. Helped by a rise in operating margins from 15.0% to 15.7%, eps increased 13% to 60.3p. Net debt lifted from £61m to £17 ...

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