Wright Place, Wright Time? Ortho Specialist's Focus Is Paying Off

In reinventing itself as a niche specialist in the orthopedic market, Wright Medical is putting efforts into maintaining leadership in the upper and lower extremities and building on its biologics strengths – a sales platform that was reinforced highly synergistically on the acquisition of Tornier. But for however long Wright Medical can remain independent, how does it balance value-based health care with strategic development plans?

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The M&A question is never far away for medtech companies that successfully restructure, set ambitious but achievable goals and whose portfolios and markets are relatively easily defined. Thus, device industry commentators have recently been prone to couple upper/lower extremities and biologics manufacturer Wright Medical Group NV, newly augmented by its 2015 Tornier NVacquisition, with suitors as the combined group continues to show robust financial performances.

Add to the mix the contention in some quarters that president and CEO Bob Palmisano has had an M&A agenda...

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