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Cook Group Inc.

Cook breaks ground on project to double its footprint

March 26, 2018 By Fink Densford

Cook Group said today it broke ground on a new Bloomington, Ind.-based facility that could double the footprint of its headquarters in the city. The company said it acquired the facility, which was a former General Electric (NYSE:GE) refrigerator manufacturing site, last year, and that it spans over one million square feet. The addition is set […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News Tagged With: Cook Group Inc., Cook Medical

Siemens Healthineers taps ex-Abbott Vascular prez Nath to lead lab diag biz | Personnel Moves January 30, 2018

January 30, 2018 By Fink Densford

Siemens (NYSE:SI) Healthineers said today it tapped former Abbott (NYSE:ABT) Vascular president Dr. Deepak Nath as its new laboratory diagnostics business president, taking over for Franz Walt who operated as president from 2014 to 2017. Nath spent 10 years with Abbott, serving most recently as its vascular division president and as an executive officer of the company, and […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News Tagged With: Abbott, aligntechnology, Amgen, Cardiovascular Systems Inc., CHF Solutions Inc., Cook Group Inc., Endologix, Hillrom, Invetech, Johnson and Johnson, lohmannandrauscher, Medtronic, Neuromod Devices, Novartis, Personnel Moves, Siemens, Surefire Medical

Catalent reorganizes after closing Pharmica purchase

October 24, 2017 By Sarah Faulkner

Cook Group said today that it completed the sale of Cook Pharmica to Catalent (NYSE:CTLT). Catalent announced last month that it planned to dish out $950 million to buy the biologics contract manufacturer. The newly-acquired company will be called Catalent Bloomington, according to Cook Group. Get the full story at our sister site, Drug Delivery Business News.

Filed Under: Mergers & Acquisitions, Pharmaceutical, Wall Street Beat Tagged With: Catalent, Cook Group Inc., cookpharmica

Cook elevates medical prez Yonkin to Cook Group prez | Personnel Moves

June 17, 2015 By Fink Densford

Cook said yesterday that Cook Medical president Pete Yonkman will become the new president of Cook Group Inc., as current president Kem Hawkins is slated to retire on July 1. “Under Kem’s leadership, we have seen exciting new opportunities to help patients, our employees, and the communities where we operate. With his guidance, our company […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News Tagged With: Bioventus LLC, Bovie Medical Corp., Cook Group Inc., Cook Medical, DJO Global, Hologic, International Biomedical Devices, Johnson and Johnson, Nuvasive, Personnel Moves, Presbia, Shire Plc.

Cook Medical continues to shuffle management | Personnel Moves

December 6, 2013 By Chris Walker Leave a Comment

fired/hired

Cook Medical named Rob Lyles executive vice president, the latest move in a larger management shift at the Indiana medtech maker.

Lyles was formerly vice president of Cook’s peripheral intervention division. He has been with the company since 2003 and was named division VP in 2007. Lyles’ promotion follows the advancement of Pete Yonkman to president of the Cook Medical. Mark Breedlove, a 19-year veteran of Cook Medical, will succeed Lyles as VP of the peripheral intervention division.

Filed Under: News Well Tagged With: Boston Scientific, CareFusion Corp., Cook Group Inc., Cook Medical, Covidien, IDEX Corp., InspireMD, Life Technologies Corp., Nuvasive, Orthofix, Personnel Moves, Stryker, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Cook Medical names new president, but Hawkins isn’t going anywhere

November 14, 2013 By Chris Walker Leave a Comment

Cook Medical names new president

Cook Medical said it named Pete Yonkman as president, with Kem Hawkins stepping down from the role to better oversee Cook Group altogether.

Yonkman has been with Cook Medical for the past 12 years, originally joining the company as corporate counsel and most recently serving as executive vice president of Cook Medical’s 10 strategic business units.

Filed Under: News Well Tagged With: Cook Group Inc., Cook Medical, Personnel Moves

Medtronic gets its new HR chief from Best Buy | Personnel Moves

October 4, 2013 By Arezu Sarvestani Leave a Comment

fired/hired

 Medtronic’s new HR chief hails from consumer tech giant Best Buy

Filed Under: News Well Tagged With: Boston Scientific, Cook Group Inc., DJO Global, Minnesota, Personnel Moves

Medical device tax: “The straw that broke the camel’s back”

March 6, 2013 By Arezu Sarvestani Leave a Comment

Cook Group chairman Steve Ferguson told Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) at a House Ways & Means Committee meeting yesterday that the medical device tax is the "straw that broke the camel’s back" in terms of sending medical device manufacturing overseas.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Cook Group Inc., Cook Medical, Main Videos, U.S. House of Representatives

Medical Device Tax: Med-tech companies react to Supreme Court ruling

June 28, 2012 By MassDevice staff Leave a Comment

MassDevice.com coverage of the medical device tax

The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the the healthcare reform law shocked the world this morning, but it doesn’t stop the fight to repeal the medical device tax, according to several medical device company leaders.

Cook Group chairman Steve Ferguson told MassDevice he isn’t disheartened by the Supremes’ decision.

"We never thought that it would affect the tax," Ferguson told us. "Whichever way the decision went, we felt we would still have to move forward with the repeal efforts."

Filed Under: Healthcare Reform, News Well Tagged With: Biomet, Cook Group Inc.

MassDevice.com +7 | The top 7 med-tech stories for the week of June 1, 2012.

June 1, 2012 By MassDevice staff Leave a Comment

Plus Seven

Say hello to MassDevice +7, a bite-sized view of the top seven med-tech stories of the week. This latest feature of MassDevice.com’s coverage highlights our seven biggest and most influential stories from the week’s news to make sure you’re up to date on the headlines that continue to shape the medical device industry.

If you read nothing else this weekend, make sure you’re still in the know with MassDevice +7.

Filed Under: Healthcare Reform, News Well Tagged With: Cook Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, Plus 7, U.S. Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Senate

Device tax: Inside the House Ways & Means markup meeting

June 1, 2012 By Arezu Sarvestani Leave a Comment

MassDevice.com coverage of the medical device tax

The House Ways & Means Committee voted this week to approve Erik Paulsen’s (R-Minn.) medical device tax repeal bill for a vote on the House floor, but the decision wasn’t without conflict.

Democrats who expressed concern about how to make up for the $30 billion the med-tech levy is projected to raise over 10 years were outvoted with a 23-11 majority, with 2 of their own joining Republicans in supporting repeal.

Filed Under: Healthcare Reform, News Well Tagged With: Cook Group Inc., U.S. Congress, U.S. House of Representatives

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