Maersk owner acquires medical diagnostic services provider Unilabs

 

A.P. Moller Holding, owner of Danish shipping giant Maersk, announced on Friday the acquisition of Unilabs, a leading European provider of medical diagnostic services, including COVID-19 testing.

The acquisition delivers “specialized specialist knowledge, industrial scale, and excellent procedures, important success criteria in diagnostics,” according to Jan T. Nielsen, investment director at A.P. Moller Holding.

Unilabs employs 12,600 people and has over 200 labs globally. One of the biggest European medical diagnostics firms, it delivers COVID-19 tests to 15 countries, according to a statement from A.P. Moller Holding.

Unilabs generated 15 billion Danish kroner (2.2 billion U.S. dollars) in revenues and an operating profit of 4.5 billion Danish kroner between September 2020 and September 2021, it said.

According to the statement, the parties have agreed not to disclose the transaction details. The deal is now awaiting approval by the relevant competition authorities.