"This is the strongest M&A market I can remember," Hedley Goldberg, managing director at Rothschild & Co told hundreds of attendees at HBI 2021 as he talked about the IPO landscape and how post-COVID M&A is shaping up.
Demand for homecare services is vast, but recruitment constrains operators, how do you meet this challenge? An panel at HBI 2021 considered this thorny problem and others, including how to maintain quality, and whether price increases are possible.
This is a sector that is likely to see massive growth as nations retreat from public provision and as new business models allow new entrants to compete with mom’n’pop. So what are the new models in franchising and digital? And which market sectors and which countries offer the best opportunities? Confirmed speakers to include: James […]
A fifth of homecare staff could leave the sector if COVID vaccination becomes mandatory in the UK. HBI looks to mainland Europe, where similar restrictions are in place, to find out more.
Pan-European homecare group Promedica24 tells HBI that long-term investor ForeVest is considering an exit in the next 1-2 years. Tomasz Brzeziński, CEO and CFO, says that the group has plans to move into Switzerland and Austria as well as diversify its revenue sources in Germany. Brzeziński is one of 100 speakers at HBI 2021, Sept 20-22, the global CEO-level event focused on for-profit healthcare.
As expected, M&A deal flow slowed through August as bankers and executives headed out on summer vacations. HBI has caught up with the mid-to-small-cap deals you may have missed; featuring hospitals, ophthalmology, and homecare.
Doctor-booking platforms is an established multi-million euro market in Europe. However, platforms that connect families with carers have so far lagged behind. That is starting to change with the emergence of new carer-booking platforms that want to internationalise. HBI speaks to one, Greece's grandmama.
Wages in Europe's domiciliary care market have risen up to 15% as the sector scrambles for staff, driven by a sixfold jump in empty vacancies and better protections for governments. This will likely signal a care cost inflation across the continent as one operator tells HBI that the costs will be passed on to the customer.
US-based homecare tech specialist Honor Technology has acquired Home Instead, the global leader of franchise homecare services. The deal creates a global homecare group worth more than $2.1 billion in homecare revenue. HBI chats with sources including Home Instead's UK CEO to find out what the deal means for markets outside of the United States.
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