In a move to strengthen its presence in emerging markets, Stryker (Kalamazoo, Michigan) reported that it will make a voluntary general offer to acquire all the shares of Trauson Holdings (Hong Kong), a firm that specializes in products for the spine, for $764 million in an all cash transaction.
The new year is in full swing, but just as the Treaty of Versailles left a big mess to be resolved in another bloody conflict a scant 20 years later, the end of 2012 was anything but the end of several contentious issues that could plague the device industry in 2013. As is the case with wedding gifts, this list includes something old, something borrowed, and at least one of these is sure to leave device makers blue. Pre-emption back in play We had discussed previously that a change of...
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