Falck has acquired the US ambulance company Care Ambulance Service that operates more than 135 ambulances in Los Angeles County and Orange County in California in the US.
The Lundbeck Foundation joins the group of owners of Falck by acquiring 36% of the shares in Falck from the company’s existing owners, Nordic Capital Fund V, ATP Private Equity Partners and Folksam.
The management structure in Falck will be changed in order to strengthen the organization. A new management layer, right below the Executive Management, will help sustain growth and ambition.
Falck has signed a letter of intent which defines the framework for Falck’s acquisition of LifeStar Response Corporation.
Falck has employed Robert “Boo” Heffner as Group Vice President. Mr. Heffner will develop and support Falck’s potential American EMS business.
After one of the biggest oil disasters in history, Falck has helped cleaning the beaches and the sea by the Mexican Gulf training their own staff and others for the job.
Falck and Elite Miljø have formed a partnership regarding personal care and practical service through the so-called free choice programme.
Falck has acquired a new platform in the Nordic countries after buying S Reg AB and thus Smart Safety. The company’s safety products have more than a million consumers.
125 ambulances and an additional number of other rescue service vehicles will be sporting the characteristic red and white Falck logo in Brazil in the future as Falck has signed an agreement to buy Rio de Janeiro based ambulance company Toesa.
Falck Healthcare has begun providing medicals for offshore workers at the Falck Nutec safety training centres in Aberdeen and Teesside, United Kingdom.
On November 1st,Dr. Klaus Runggaldier will be taking up office as Manager of Falck Rettungsdienst GmbH, which is building Falck’s ambulance activities in Germany.
Falck's Annual Report 2009 is now available.
Falck has won 28 ambulance stations in the third and final round of ambulance tenders in Slovakia. This means that Falck will run a total of 90 Slovakian ambulance stations the next four years.
Falck has acquired a minority shareholding in P.T. Samson Tiara, the leading provider of safety and training services in Indonesia.
His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark attended the official opening of Falck’s training centre in Abu Dhabi on January 19. At the same time the Nigerian Minister of State for Petroleum officially opened another training centre in Nigeria.