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TOP STORIES BUSINESS Linn Wrangmark and Frida McC
abe, Founders, Medow BUSINESS DEAL NEW MARKET that TRACOE, MC Europe and Kapitex will join the Atos family. We share a strong vision of making life easier for people living with a neck stoma and we have complimentary capabilities that will enable us to serve customers worldwide even better in the future. Combining our companies will strengthen our ability to fast track the journey towards becoming a full range global player in the tracheostomy segment, through a combined hospital and direct-to-consumer model and with a strong production footprint in Sweden and Germany,” says Britt Meelby Jensen, CEO, Atos Medical. TRACOE medical is a family-owned German-based tracheostomy business originally founded in 1958 and today includes MC Europe. Kapitex Healthcare was founded in 1991 and is a UK based company. Britt Meelby Jensen, CEO, Atos Medical with the Saudi Arabian Cigalah Group and concerns the rights to sell Medow’s IV- bracelet in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. The IV-bracelet is a bracelet designed to provide safer treatments during for example dialysis or intravenous therapy by effectively securing the intravenous tubes. The agreement runs for five years. “With the closing of this agreement we have the opportunity to develop and scale up the business to a completely new level. Developing new medical devices and establishing distributors takes time and considerable effort and it feels great that several years of hard work now pays off,” says Frida McCabe, co-founder, Medow. 10 NORDICLIFESCIENCE.ORG