Straumann fires all top managers

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Thats not right there r still 8 mangers left in us from the old director of sales
They said we r coming out with our low cost implant in june from the company they just bought in brazil. They will be offering implants at 199 to all top nobel and zimmer accounts to take back market share. Watch out nobel here we come
 
















Straumann will dominate the market they have both options a high price implant and now a low cost, i was told they are also coming out with a inter oral scanner thats why they dropped itero.
They are going to kill zimmer 3i nobel this year once they launch their new products
 


Anonymous said:
Thats not right there r still 8 mangers left in us from the old director of sales
They said we r coming out with our low cost implant in june from the company they just bought in brazil. They will be offering implants at 199 to all top nobel and zimmer accounts to take back market share. Watch out nobel here we come
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So Straumann is going to sell a Brazillian made Ankylos type implant in the US for $199 that sells in Brazil for $60. Oh..I guess the ITI group will bless it and that will add $133 worth of value. So much for Research
 


Anonymous said:
So Straumann is going to sell a Brazillian made Ankylos type implant in the US for $199 that sells in Brazil for $60. Oh..I guess the ITI group will bless it and that will add $133 worth of value. So much for Research
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How did anyone miss the quote I just pulled from Rueter's this morning. Apparently, this took place on 11/26:

"Straumann said major shareholder and vice chairman Thomas Straumann sold a 10 percent stake in the dental implant maker to Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, making it its second-biggest shareholder.

Thomas Straumann, a grandson of Reinhard Straumann who founded the company in 1954, said the "prevailing weak economic environment" had made it necessary to sell the stake to meet other financial commitments."

Also, this same guy just divested a chain of hotels he owned. Now, he did agree to a one-year freeze on selling anymore of his shares.

Bottom line, does anyone see merger???????????? Could it be Nobel? Could it be Biomet?? Gulp, Glidewell?

Or maybe a Med device company looking for a way in.
 


Anonymous said:
How did anyone miss the quote I just pulled from Rueter's this morning. Apparently, this took place on 11/26:

"Straumann said major shareholder and vice chairman Thomas Straumann sold a 10 percent stake in the dental implant maker to Singapore's sovereign wealth fund, making it its second-biggest shareholder.

Thomas Straumann, a grandson of Reinhard Straumann who founded the company in 1954, said the "prevailing weak economic environment" had made it necessary to sell the stake to meet other financial commitments."

Also, this same guy just divested a chain of hotels he owned. Now, he did agree to a one-year freeze on selling anymore of his shares.

Bottom line, does anyone see merger???????????? Could it be Nobel? Could it be Biomet?? Gulp, Glidewell?

Or maybe a Med device company looking for a way in.
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Quote directly from Engineeringnews.com:

"Major shareholder and vice chairperson Thomas Straumann sold a 10% stake to Singapore Investment Corporation in November, reducing his own stake to 17%.

That month, the company's share price dipped below 100 Swiss francs for the first time since 2003. It is currently nearly 70% off its 2007 peak.

Rival Nobel Biocare has fared even worse, hitting an all-time low in November, and is more than 90% off a high set in 2007.

Nobel Biocare named Richard Laube to replace Domenico Scala as CEO in 2011 when several other top managers left the company."

I've always said it, money is cheap and 'economies of scale' is the phrase you will hear repeatedly in 2013. It's not to say these two will join forces, however, they will be a different companies say within 12-24 months.
 


Turn out the lights, the parties over.

Straumann people, get your bullet proof vests ready. Some (a lot) of you are Going Down soon.

Management will soon be looking for easy prey.

Look both ways before you cross the street.
 


Anonymous said:
Turn out the lights, the parties over.

Straumann people, get your bullet proof vests ready. Some (a lot) of you are Going Down soon.

Management will soon be looking for easy prey.

Look both ways before you cross the street.
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It's unbelievable, really. If you think about it, here's a company that re-branded itself with a 5 year plan to then take over the top coup from Nobel, to then clean house. If this wasn't a strategy that was put in place 5 years ago to sell the company, then what is?

Coincidentally, it's the same time that the financial policy makers of the Euro realized that they too are in trouble, just that it wasn't as publicized. Straumann and Nobel sniffed it out and "re-organized, re-strategized" their biz model to then be put in the position to sell off once things turned around.

Remember, implant dentistry market is a 'cash biz,' and very profitable. There's value to come in and buy a top tier player, regardless of single digit growth.
 











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