MAQUET Sets up New International Marketing and Service Organizations

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MAQUET Sets up New International Marketing

and Service Organizations

PR Newswire

RASTATT, Germany, July 11, 2012

RASTATT,

Germany

,

July 11, 2012

/PRNewswire/ --

With new subsidiaries in

Colombia

,

South Africa

and

South East Europe

and the take-over of the Cardiac

Assist business division from USCI in

Japan

, MAQUET

is continuing its international expansion strategy.

With the new establishment of three subsidiaries and an acquisition by MAQUET

Cardiovascular in

Japan

, MAQUET GmbH & Co. KG is on its way to expand its

international business activities within the coming months. MAQUET is a world-

wide leading supplier of complete solutions and therapy applications for OR,

hybrid OR, cath lab and intensive care units. The company is part of the listed

Swedish group GETINGE AB and has its headquarters in Rastatt,

Germany

. "The

new subsidiaries are located in regions that we expect to have a major market

potential for our products and therapy solutions in the long term. In particular,

emerging economies have to live up to the increased health care expectations

of their population. And other countries, such as in

South East Europe

, see the

need to modernize existing health care facilities step by step to bring them up

to date," says Michael Rieder, Executive Vice President Sales & Marketing,

Getinge Medical Systems.

Subsidiaries on three continents

MAQUET South East Europe Ltd., headquartered in

Belgrade

, already registered

its first successes before the company's official start on

July 1, 2012

, for

example when it signed a contract for the installation and equipping of 14

operating theatres in Szeged,

Hungary

. The company is represented by

distributors in a total of ten South East European countries and strives for a

100% increase in turnover by the end of 2013.

MAQUET Colombia S.A.S., headquartered in Bogotá, is also expecting a clear

sales increase in the next year. "We have seen much interest already in

MAQUET products but also in GETINGE products, so that we expect a sales

increase of about 20% in 2013," reckons Guillermo Mainzhausen, Managing

Director of MAQUET Colombia. The company which will actively start working

the market in mid-July is planning to establish itself as the hub of the Andean

countries

Colombia

,

Venezuela

,

Ecuador

and

Peru

. The next steps will be the

expansion of marketing and service activities and the setting up of a

comprehensive network of dealers.

At the beginning of next year, MAQUET will for the first time have an

independent marketing and service organisation on the African continent.

MAQUET South Africa (PTY) Ltd. is headquartered in

Johannesburg

. The

company is planning to further expand the dealership structure for the opening

of the African market, starting in selected countries, to meet the growing

demand for better medical care throughout the continent.

MAQUET Japan takes over Cardiac Assist business

division from USCI

With the acquisition of the Cardiac Assist business division from USCI Japan Ltd.,

MAQUET Japan K.K. intensifies its marketing activities in the growing cardiac

and vascular medicine market. Both companies have already been cooperating

in the technology and marketing sectors since 2008 when MAQUET took over

DATASCOPE. "We are happy to have acquired the experienced USCI sales

team. This enables us, on the one hand, to consolidate our market leadership in

the field of IABP and, on the other, to offer our customers even better service

due to our enhanced presence." explains Hideaki Yamashita, President of

MAQUET Japan K.K.

With the newly founded subsidiaries, MAQUET is now running a total of 53

international marketing and service organisations. The enterprise's dynamic

development is also reflected by the workforce and sales figures. Since its

acquisition by GETINGE AB in the year 2000, the number of employees has

risen from 1,400 to 6,000 at the end of the financial year 2011 and sales have

developed appropriately - from €154 million to almost €1.4 billion.

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INFORMATION ABOUT MAQUET

As a trusted partner for hospitals and clinicians since 1838, Maquet is a global

leader in medical systems that advance surgical interventions, cardiovascular

procedures and critical care. Maquet develops and designs innovative products

and therapeutic applications for the operating room, hybrid OR/cath lab,

intensive care unit and patient transport within acute care hospitals, improving

outcomes and quality of life for patients.

Cardiovascular specialties include intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation (IABC)

therapy for cardiac assist; coronary artery bypass surgery; aortic and

peripheral vascular surgery; and extracorporeal circulation. Additional ground-

breaking therapies in thrombus management, cardiothoracic and biosurgery

complement the portfolio.

The Critical Care portfolio includes market-leading intensive care ventilators

and anesthesia machines.

Maquet also equips Surgical Workplaces with critical infrastructure such as

flexible room design for OR and ICU; OR tables; lights and ceiling supply units;

and OR integration for image data management.

Maquet is a subsidiary of the publicly listed Swedish Getinge Group. In 2011,

Maquet generated nearly

1.4 billion Euro

which is more than half of the Group's

annual revenue of

2.4 billion Euros

. The Getinge Group has 13,000 employees

worldwide, including around 6,000 Maquet employees in 50 international sales

and service organizations, as well as a network of more than 280 sales

representatives. For more information please visit http://www.maquet.com and

http://www.getingegroup.com.

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