Getinge is a global

medical technology Health technology is defined by the World Health Organization as the "application of organized knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures, and systems developed to solve a health problem and improve quality of liv ...

company, founded in Sweden in 1904. The firm provides

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and systems within

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and

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s. The company was formerly organised in three business areas: Infection Control (trading as Getinge), Extended Care (

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) and Medical Systems (

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, the world's largest maker of surgical tables), but announced it would become a single brand company, operating under the brand Getinge, on 20 March 2017. In 1989, it was acquired by Rune Andersson and Carl Bennet. Getinge’s stocks have been noted on the Stockholm stock exchange since 1993 and have been part of the OMXS30 Index since July 2009. The company's president and CEO is Mattias Perjos. Johan Malmquist is the company's chairman. Getinge's shares have been listed on the

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Nordic List in

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since 1993 and have formed part of the OMXS30 index since July 2009. In 2011 Getinge acquired the US company Atrium Medical and in 2014 Pulsion Medical Systems.

References

* GETINGE, "Getinge 1904-2004 - the first hundred years", 2004 Almqvist & Wiksell,

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