Falck has won the tender to run an additional 29 ambulances and a lifeboat in the Lodz region of Poland - thus expanding its position as the country’s leading rescue service.
Falck is probably the reason why fire service is so cheap in Danmark, says World Fire Statistics by The Geneva Assosciation.
For the first time, Falck will be active in rescue operations in Germany. Falck has bought the German ambulance and patient transport company Krankentransport Herzig GmbH with headquarters in Hamm in the region North Rhine-Westphalia.
Falck stregthens its activities in Latin America by its subsidiary EMI’s acquisition of Servicio de Emergencias Regional (SER), a company that provides ambulance services and medical care in Colombia.
The competition authorities have approved Falck’s new ownership.
Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service and Falck EMS UK Ltd have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop ways of working together as preferred partners.
Falck Healthcare has bought Denmark’s second largest private health solution provider, HealthCare Danmark. Thus, Falck is further expanding its network of health clinics and will also get a valuable system for measurement of effect.
The Lundbeck Foundation, KIRKBI and the members of Falck’s Executive Management Board become principal shareholders of Falck and Nordic Capital Fund V (“Nordic Capital”) sells all its shares in Falck.
Falck has acquired 63.1 percent of EMI Holdings Management S.A., Panama (EMI), the parent company of the leading Latin American ambulance and home care group of companies headquartered in Colombia.
Falck has acquired a majority stake in the company Starowka which operates four primary care, specialist care and day surgery clinics in Warzaw and the Central part of Poland.
Falck has completed the acquisition of LifeStar, a US east coast based Emergency Medical Services (EMS) company operating 440 ambulances and other rescue vehicles.