Fresenius Medical Care, the world’s largest provider of dialysis products and services, has successfully completed the acquisition of NxStage Medical, Inc. (NxStage), following approval by antitrust authorities in the United States.

NxStage develops, produces and markets an innovative product portfolio of medical devices for use in home dialysis and critical care. The acquisition will enable Fresenius Medical Care to leverage its manufacturing, supply chain and marketing competencies across the dialysis products, services and Care Coordination businesses in a less labor- and capital-intensive care setting.

“The closing of this transaction is an important milestone in enhancing our patients’ choice of dialysis treatment modality,” said Rice Powell, Chief Executive Officer of Fresenius Medical Care. “By combining NxStage’s capabilities with our broad product and service offering, we can help patients to live even more independently. In addition to broadening our product portfolio, this acquisition positions Fresenius Medical Care to benefit from the growing trend toward home-based therapies.”

Bill Valle, Chief Executive Officer of Fresenius Medical Care North America, said: “It’s a great pleasure to welcome our new NxStage colleagues. With their strong culture of innovation and transformation, they will help us to realize our vision of delivering access to superior patient care and outcomes in a lower-cost-of-care home setting to all the patients we care for. We are excited to execute on a strategy that is good for patients, the healthcare system and us.”

NxStage, which just like Fresenius Medical Care North America has its headquarters in the Boston, Massachusetts area, was founded in 1998 and has approximately 3,800 employees worldwide. In 2017, NxStage delivered USD 394 million in revenue.

The company now expects lower total integration costs of around EUR 50 to EUR 75 million over the three years following the closing of the transaction1. The table below provides the estimated effects of the NxStage acquisition on Fresenius Medical Care excluding these integration costs. The company assumes the full year effect of incremental intangible assets amortization to be in the range of EUR 70 to 80 million for the first two years, then drop to EUR 45 to 55 million thereafter. The company will update those numbers after a detailed assessment, if required.

Revenues provided in the table below are lower than the historical reported revenues of NxStage due to the elimination of Fresenius Medical Care’s contribution to these revenues, upon consolidation. Operating income is expected to improve from 2020 onwards due to realization of the anticipated synergies from the acquisition.

All effects from the NxStage acquisition are excluded from the company’s communicated targets 2019 and 2020.

¹The total integration costs are lower than previously communicated mainly due to costs that will be considered pre-merger expenses of NxStage, certain other costs that qualify for purchase accounting or as capital expenditures and previously recognized transaction and legal costs.
²The numbers are excluding effects from the implementation of IFRS 16 and excluding integration costs. 2019 estimates cover the period starting on February 21, 2019 (closing date) until year-end 2019.

The market research institute Potentialpark has honored the global healthcare group Fresenius for the eighth consecutive year as the German company with the best overall Internet offering for job applicants.

In Potentialpark’s 2019 study, Fresenius not only took first place in the overall category for all career-relevant online activities. but won in three of the four individual categories: Online Application Management, Mobile, and Career Website. The company was third in the Social Media category.

Potentialpark has carried out an annual study of German companies’ online offerings for job applicants since 2002. For this year’s study, Potentialpark assessed the online activities of 141 German companies according to more than 300 criteria. More than 40,000 students and graduates around the world were surveyed about their preferences.

“Today, contact between job-seekers and companies takes place predominantly through digital channels,” said Markus Olbert, Senior Vice President Corporate Human Resources at Fresenius. “We’re very happy that for years, our digital offering has met the needs of our target groups. Having digitalized our information offering, first contact and application process, we are now putting the last piece into place with the digitalization of our onboarding.” 

Fresenius Medical Care, the world’s largest provider of dialysis products and services, today announced that CFO Michael Brosnan plans to retire from the Company after his successor has been identified and transitioned into the role. Fresenius Medical Care expects to name a new Chief Financial Officer by the end of this year. 

Michael Brosnan said: “My career at Fresenius Medical Care has been a fulfilling and challenging part of my professional life. I have worked with many wonderful people and I admire them for their dedication to the Company and thank them for the strong company that has continued to grow with their contributions.”

Rice Powell, Chief Executive Officer of Fresenius Medical Care and Chairman of the Management Board, said: “We thank Mike for his many years of valuable work and for his significant contributions to the success of Fresenius Medical Care. We wish him all the best in his retirement.”

Stephan Sturm, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Fresenius Medical Care Management AG, said: “On behalf of the entire Supervisory Board, I would like to thank Mike Brosnan for the tireless efforts that he has dedicated to our company over the years. I wish Mike all the best for the new phase in his life that he will be entering after his retirement from Fresenius Medical Care.”

Michael Brosnan has been Global CFO of Fresenius Medical Care since January 2010. Previously, he served as CFO of Fresenius Medical Care North America for seven years. He joined the company in 1998 as Vice President of Finance and Administration for the company’s laboratory services organization and then assumed several key executive positions at Fresenius Medical Care in North America. Prior to joining the company, he held senior financial positions at Polaroid Corporation and was an audit partner at KPMG.