- Business
- Medicover AB (publ) (MCOV B; MCVEF) operates as an international healthcare and diagnostic services provider, offering a comprehensive range of medical and diagnostic solutions through its two primary divisions: Healthcare Services, which encompasses primary care, specialist outpatient and inpatient care, hospitals, ambulatory clinics, specialty-care facilities, fertility treatment, state-of-the-art dental services, optician services, wellbeing solutions including sports packages and diets, and fitness clubs; and Diagnostic Services, which provides laboratory testing across clinical pathology areas such as allergy and autoimmune diagnostics, bacteriology, parasitology, biochemistry and immunochemistry, blood group diagnostics, tumour markers, clinical chemistry, cytology, haematology, histopathology, human genetics, hygiene, immunology, infectious diseases, microbiology, molecular biology, and pharmacology/toxicology. The company serves corporate clients, individuals, public payers, healthcare professionals, and hospitals via an extensive network of clinics, hospitals, laboratories, and blood-drawing points in over 20 countries, with primary operations in Central and Eastern Europe including Poland, Germany, Romania, Ukraine; India; the Nordic countries; and recent expansions into Turkey, Cyprus, Slovenia, Croatia, and North Macedonia. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Medicover maintains a presence in 23 countries and employs over 44,000 staff. Recent developments include the April 2025 acquisition of SYNLAB Group's operations in Romania, Turkey, Cyprus, Slovenia, Croatia, and North Macedonia for EUR 71.3 million, adding 25 laboratories, 80 collection centers, and 675 employees to enhance diagnostic capabilities and enter three new markets; the completion of the CityFit fitness club operator acquisition in Poland in April 2025 for approximately SEK 1.4 billion (PLN 565 million), expanding its wellness offerings to over 170 clubs; plans to open two new hospitals in India in 2025 and early 2026 alongside evaluation of a potential separate listing of its Indian hospital subsidiary; and the appointment of John Stubbington as new CEO effective May 1, 2025.