Fresenius (company)

Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA is a European diversified health care company based in Bad Homburg, Germany. The Fresenius Group provides products and services for dialysis, hospitals as well as inpatient and outpatient medical care. In addition, the company focuses on hospital management as well as on engineering and services for medical centers and other health care facilities. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.

Operations

Fresenius consists of four business segments, Fresenius Medical Care (a publicly traded company of which Fresenius owns 30.8%), Fresenius Helios, Fresenius Kabi and Fresenius Vamed. With activities in about 100 countries, it has more than 200,000 employees.

Another arm of Fresenius Kabi is Fresenius Kabi Oncology Plc. It produces generics of intravenous oncology products such as Paclitaxel, Irinotecan, Oxaliplatin, Gemcitabine, Cytarabine, Carboplatin, Topotecan, Docetaxel and Epirubicin.

Fresenius owns the Helios Kliniken, which has more than 100 hospitals and more than 30,000 beds, treating over 4 million patients annually. The hospital operator is the biggest provider of inpatient and outpatient care in Germany.