French group Eurofins signs deal to buy Japanese company GeneTech
07/08/2020 07:38
PARIS, Aug 7 (Reuters) - French laboratories and diagnostics
company Eurofins EUFI.PA has signed an agreement to buy
Japanese genetics analysis company GeneTech from Noritsu Koki
7744.T , Eurofins said on Friday.
GeneTech had revenues of more than 10 million euros ($11.8
million) in 2019, and Eurofins said the acquisition would make
it a leader in the specialist field of non-invasive pre-natal
testing (NIPT) in Japan.
($1 = 0.8444 euros)
(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; Editing by Edmund Blair)
((sudip.kargupta@thomsonreuters.com; +33 1 49 49 53 84;))