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Healthcare [ Return towards  Core Business  ]

8,000 staff that develop products and services in 35 countries around the world. Customers include 8,000 hospitals and clinics and 300,000 homecare patients. Main products and services : homecare, medical gases, respiratory equipment, medical hygiene and personal care.

The Healthcare World Business Line manages brands through dedicated subsidiaries within 4 Business Units, across Europe, North America and Australia.

In several countries, the Group runs healthcare operations without dedicated healthcare subsidiaries (e.g. Japan,Brazil,Argentina,…).

Purpose of the “healthcare world business line” :


  • In the fields we have chosen within healthcare & personal care,
  • Bring patients and customers around the world
  • The most innovative products and solutions
  • At the best worldwide standards of quality & care
  • Thanks to the passion and skills of our people

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Markets and Sales:

  • € 16 b markets (2005 estimate), growing regularly
  • € 1 705 m sales (reported 2006), an opportunity to grow while consolidating the market

Sales breakdown (2006):

  • VitalAire : € 578m
  • Air Liquide Santé : € 545m
  • Seppic /S&M / Anios : € 475m
  • Taema : € 106m

Sales include the flagship brand, as well as those of smaller brands in the same business.

History

  • Pre 1980: Medical gases
  • 1980s: Growth into homecare, personal care, respiratory equipment
  • 1990s: Growth into medical hygiene
  • Post 2000: Turn the businesses into global leaders
  • 2004: Therapeutic gases: new field for R&D

A portofolio of businesses with:

  • Strong value added 
  • Global potential 
  • 2 major fields of competency: respiratory and microbial

Business Philosophy

Innovate continuously:

  • Products and services that open up new horizons for patients & physicians.

Bring solutions & industrial processes that reduce the cost of healthcare:

  • Homecare, hygiene solutions for hospitals, …
  • The most competitive industrial processes.

Operate at best worldwide standards, so as to:

  • Add value to smaller companies through acquisitions, 
  • Develop the business worldwide.

While benefiting from the Air Liquide Group’s HR opportunities:

  • Human resources are managed on an Air Liquide Group level,
  • People transmit the Group’s values throughout the organisation.

And the Group’s strengths:

  • Global presence, 
  • R&D capabilities, 
  • Financial clout.

Healthcare at Air Liquide abides by the Group’s values (safety first & foremost).

A business driven by brands

Each of these brands is international.

They have global (or European) leadership positions.

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