Asker as an investment
A leading provider of medical products and solutions — driving progress in the European healthcare sector
Asker is a leading provider of medical products and solutions in Europe. Over the past decade, Asker has organically and via acquisitions built a pan-European group with deep knowledge in healthcare, attracting entrepreneurs that together with us want to drive progress and support the healthcare system to improve patient outcomes, reduce the total cost of care, and ensure a fair and sustainable value chain.
By joining entrepreneurial responsibility with a distinct steering model, Asker has a solid platform for growth in its “twin engine” where organic growth is combined with continuous acquisitions in the large and fragmented European MedTech-market.
Since 2019, Asker has acquired 51 companies, adding new geographical markets, healthcare channels and product groups to strengthen the Group’s or the local companies’ market position.
Today, the Group consists of 45 companies in 17 countries with more than 4,000 employees, which brings significant scale and enables knowledge sharing, to the benefit of the Group and the healthcare sector.
Well-positioned to be the leading healthcare group in Europe within medical products and solutions.
The European Medtech market is estimated to SEK 1,300 billion and growing approximately 3 per cent per year. The growth is driven among others by a growing elderly population and need to reduce total cost of care.
The European MedTech market is highly fragmented and comprises approximately 37,000 companies.
The European healthcare market is complex with diverse healthcare systems across countries and regions, and different forms of caregivers and medical professionals. This creates a need for value adding solution providers who can simplify for suppliers and support healthcare providers.
Sustainability is an integral part of Asker’s business strategy, which focuses on improving value for patients, reducing total cost of care and emissions, and ensuring a fair and sustainable value chain.
Historically, Asker has demonstrated stable and profitable growth propelled by its “twin engine” model. Asker’s growth has been supported by its recurrent M&A agenda as well as strong organic growth.
Decentralised steering model with local managers who knows their markets combined with scale benefits from the larger group.
