Roeser Medical Group is a German trading and service company in the

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sector. The company is a leading German distributor of

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History

Roeser Medical was founded by Leonhard Hermann Josef Roeser in

Essen Essen (; Latin: ''Assindia'') is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and D ...

in 1918. Starting as a

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manufacturer for World War I invalids, Roeser's sons Reiner and Leonhard expanded into the field of

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. By 1969, the company supported about 30 hospitals in the Ruhr region. From 1995, the company turned into a service provider focused on consulting, logistics and procurement services. In 1999, Roeser and two other companies, ''Westmed'' ( Duisburg) and ''Lukas'' ( Münster) merged into ''Roeser Medical GmbH Co. KG''. In November 2004, ''MWB Medizintechnik'' (

Bremen Bremen (Low German also: ''Breem'' or ''Bräm''), officially the City Municipality of Bremen (german: Stadtgemeinde Bremen, ), is the capital of the German state Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (''Freie Hansestadt Bremen''), a two-city-state consis ...

), was taken over. Further acquisitions include ''MWB Medizintechnik'' in November 2004 as well as ''EHS Medizintechnik'' and Klingenfuss in January 2012. In May 2017, German private hospital group ''Sana Kliniken AG'' announced to take over Roeser Medical from the Swedish private equity group EQT Partners, who had owned Roeser since 2010. The company moved its headquarters from

Mülheim an der Ruhr Mülheim, officially Mülheim an der Ruhr () and also described as ''"City on the River"'', is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It is located in the Ruhr Area between Duisburg, Essen, Oberhausen and Ratingen. It is home to many compan ...

Bochum Bochum ( , also , ; wep, Baukem) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia. With a population of 364,920 (2016), is the sixth largest city (after Cologne, Düsseldorf, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg) of the most populous Germany, German federal state o ...

in 2009, where it took over the former Nokia halls. In 2015, it moved back to Essen.

Products and services

Roeser offers planning and configuration of functional areas in hospitals and provides access to more than 800.000 products from more than 900 manufacturers. These include products by

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, and Becton Dickinson.

References

{{Reflist Health care companies of Germany Health care companies established in 1918 Companies based in Essen