Fresenius SE & Co KGaA

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Business Description

Sector

Health Care

Industry

Health Care

Headquarters

Germany DE

Employees

316 078

IPO date

Dec 18, 1986

Fresenius SE & Co KGaA is a healthcare company that makes medical products and runs hospitals. Its product side, Fresenius Kabi, sells things like IV fluids, injectable medicines, clinical nutrition products, infusion pumps, and other supplies used in hospitals and clinics. Its hospital side treats patients through large hospital networks in Germany and Spain, where it provides inpatient care, surgeries, and related medical services.

The company makes money in two main ways. First, it sells healthcare products to hospitals, pharmacies, and other medical providers. Second, its hospital businesses are paid by insurers, public health systems, and patients for treatment and procedures. That mix gives Fresenius a role on both sides of the healthcare system: it supplies the tools doctors need and also delivers the care itself.

What makes Fresenius different is that it sits close to the core of everyday healthcare rather than selling optional consumer products. Demand for its services and supplies is tied to surgery, chronic illness treatment, and routine hospital care, which makes the business easy to understand: when hospitals need dependable medical consumables and when patients need care, Fresenius is often part of the chain.