Add-on Acquisition • Medical Products

Meridian Bioscience Acquires Viral Antigens

On September 27, 2000, Meridian Bioscience acquired medical products company Viral Antigens for 9M USD

Acquisition Context

This is Meridian Bioscience’s 2nd transaction in the Medical Products sector.
This is Meridian Bioscience’s 5th largest (disclosed) transaction.
This is Meridian Bioscience’s 2nd transaction in the United States.
This is Meridian Bioscience’s 1st transaction in Tennessee.

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M&A Deal Summary
Date	September 27, 2000
Target	Viral Antigens
Sector	Medical Products
Buyer(s)	Meridian Bioscience
Deal Type	Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value	9M USD

Target Company

Viral Antigens

Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Viral Antigens, Inc. is a manufacturers of custom and specialty viral reagents for human infectious disease.

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Buyer Overview 1

Buyer

Meridian Bioscience

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Category	Company
Founded	1976
Sector	Life Science
Employees	702
Revenue	318M USD (2021)

DESCRIPTION

Meridian is a life science company that develops, manufactures, markets and distributes a broad range of innovative diagnostic test kits, purified reagents and related products and offers biopharmaceutical enabling technologies. Meridian was founded in 1976 and is based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Deal Context for Buyer	#
Overall	2 of 11
Sector: Medical Products	2 of 5
Type: Add-on Acquisition	2 of 7
State: Tennessee	1 of 1
Country: United States	2 of 8
Year: 2000	1 of 1
Size (of disclosed)	5 of 6

PREVIOUS DEAL

DATE	TARGET	DEAL TYPE	VALUE
1998-11-06	Gull Laboratories Salt Lake City, Utah, United States Gull Laboratories, Inc. manufactures medical products in US.	Buy	-

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TARGET

DEAL TYPE

VALUE

1998-11-06

Gull Laboratories

Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Gull Laboratories, Inc. manufactures medical products in US.

Buy

FOLLOWING DEAL

DATE	TARGET	DEAL TYPE	VALUE
2005-02-01	O.E.M. Concepts Saco, Michigan, United States O.E.M. Concepts, Inc. is a producer and distributor of biological components.	Buy	$6M

DATE

TARGET

DEAL TYPE

VALUE

2005-02-01

O.E.M. Concepts

Saco, Michigan, United States

O.E.M. Concepts, Inc. is a producer and distributor of biological components.

Buy

$6M

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