New business area at Getinge

New business area at Getinge With effect from today, the two business areas Sterilization Scientific and Sterilization Health Care have been merged into one - the Business Are Sterilization. Vice President of this new business area is Sven Kristensson, who is currently Vice President Sterilization Health Care and a member of the Group Management team. This merger has been done to take full advantage of the available synergy between the two former business areas, both technologically and on the production side. The marketing organizations for Scientific and Health Care clients will remain separate in future to be able to look after the different client categories' unique requirements. Getinge, 18 January 2000 Johan Malmquist President and CEO For further information please contact Johan Malmquist on +46(0)35-155500 Getinge Industrier is a medical-technical Group and a world leader in the fields of Health Care and Geriatric Care, the Pharmaceutical Industry and Laboratories. The Group had sales in 1998 of SEK 4.3 billion and 3,700 employees. GETINGE INDUSTRIER AB (publ.)Phone +46 35 15 55 00 VAT No SE556408503201 P.O. Box 69 Fax +46 35 549 52 Org.No. 556408-5032 SE-310 44 GETINGE www.getinge.com Registered office: Halmstad Sweden ------------------------------------------------------------ Please visit http://www.bit.se for further information The following files are available for download: http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/01/18/20000118BIT00670/bit0001.doc http://www.bit.se/bitonline/2000/01/18/20000118BIT00670/bit0002.pdf