Roeser Medical Group is a German trading and service company in the

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sector. The company is a leading German distributor of

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History

Roeser Medical was founded by Leonhard Hermann Josef Roeser in

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in 1918. Starting as a

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manufacturer for

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invalids, Roeser's sons Reiner and Leonhard expanded into the field of

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. By 1969, the company supported about 30 hospitals in the

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. From 1995, the company turned into a service provider focused on consulting, logistics and procurement services. In 1999, Roeser and two other companies, ''Westmed'' (

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) and ''Lukas'' (

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) merged into ''Roeser Medical GmbH Co. KG''. In November 2004, ''MWB Medizintechnik'' (

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), was taken over. Further acquisitions include ''MWB Medizintechnik'' in November 2004 as well as ''EHS Medizintechnik'' and Klingenfuss in January 2012. In May 2017, German private hospital group ''Sana Kliniken AG'' announced to take over Roeser Medical from the Swedish private equity group

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, who had owned Roeser since 2010. The company moved its headquarters from

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in 2009, where it took over the former

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halls. In 2015, it moved back to Essen.

Products and services

Roeser offers planning and configuration of functional areas in hospitals and provides access to more than 800.000 products from more than 900 manufacturers. These include products by

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, and

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References

{{Reflist Health care companies of Germany Health care companies established in 1918 Companies based in Essen