At present, for many instrument companies, M&A integration has become a mandatory strategy to expand its core business and enhance its market position. In 2014, the company will gradually become a far-off. In the past year, what mergers and acquisitions have occurred in the global instrument industry? Which is the most popular M&A field? Which is the most active M&A vendor? What is the most surprising merger? At the same time, as an important team in the global instrument industry, the domestically produced instrument manufacturers have shown us how good mergers and acquisitions integration strength? Instrument Information Network annual inventory topic - "2014 global instrument industry mergers and acquisitions integration case" will reveal the answer for you one by one!
M&A integration of the most popular areas
According to incomplete statistics, in 2014, the Instrument Information Network tracked nearly 70 mergers and acquisitions of instrument companies, at least 29 of which involved life sciences and diagnostics, including 27 acquisitions and 2 splits. Therefore, the “deserved†in the field of life sciences and diagnostics has become the most popular M&A integration field in 2014.
In recent years, due to the global economic slowdown, the growth rate of the traditional analytical instrument market is not enough to fill the “big appetite†of various instrument manufacturers. They urgently need to find new opportunities and new growth points. At this time, the promising life sciences and diagnostics market just released a positive signal, which led the world's major instrument companies to “competitively bend†and fought or laid out life science and diagnosis fields. This trend has been before 2014. The performance is more obvious, for example, Danaher acquired Beckman Coulter, PerkinElmer acquired Cailper, Agilent acquired Dako, and Thermo Fisher acquired Life Tech...
Not long ago, Instrument Information Network reported that the market for molecular diagnostics has the highest growth rate in all fields of life sciences, and the instruments required for genomics, proteomics and cell biology will become the hotspots of growth in 2015. Therefore, the 29 acquisitions and integrations in the field of life sciences and diagnostics occurred in 2014 are basically around the above hot spots, as shown in the following table:
2014 mergers and acquisitions involving instrument companies in the field of life sciences and diagnostics
The largest merger and acquisition merger
At the beginning of this year, the “large-scale†transaction of ThermoTech’s $13.6 billion acquisition of Life Tech was just over. On September 22, German pharmaceutical and chemical giant Merck announced that it would acquire Sigma-Aldrich for $17 billion. The deal not only created Merck. The largest acquisition in history, and also the largest mergers and acquisitions in the global instrument industry in 2014.
It is reported that Merck's "big hand" acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich has greatly expanded the experimental consumables business of qixia life sciences department - Merck Millipore, to enhance Merck Millipore's position in the North American and Asian markets, and hopes to cooperate with Thermo Flying global companies to achieve this.
Some analysts believe that Merck's recent two-year move suggests that the company's development direction is gradually shifting from drug research and development to chemical analysis.
In any case, the acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich is significant, even by Merck CEO Karl-Ludwig Kley, which is a milestone in Merck's “transformation journeyâ€; for Merck Millipore, it is even more significant, “ This is a qualitative leap."
As a result, compared with a series of follow-up reports on the acquisition of Life Tech by Thermo Scientific, it is believed that the follow-up story of Merck's acquisition of Sigma-Aldrich will be more exciting and exciting. For the follow-up netizens, please pay attention to our follow-up reports.
The merger and acquisition of instrument companies with a transaction volume of more than US$100 million in 2014. Note: The transaction amount is not published and is not included in the statistics.
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