Stryker (NYSE:SYK) CEO Kevin Lobo told an investors conference audience in Las Vegas yesterday that the medical device company is still in the mergers & acquisitions hunt, even after its newsmaking buyouts of China’s Trauson Holdings, Israel’s Orthovita and Surpass Medical.
"We do have an appetite to do more acquisitions," Lobo said during the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2013 Health Care Conference, stressing the importance of its recent acquisitions, according to the mlive website.
Stryker agreed to pay $764 million in January for Trauson, a Chinese medical device company that makes spinal and trauma care products. In October 2012, the Kalamazoo, Mich.-based orthopedics giant agreed to pay up to $135 million to acquire Israeli stent maker Surpass Medical. Stryker paid $316 million for Orthovita in 2011.
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