History
Early specialisation on healthcare support services has allowed us to become market leader in sterile services both in linen and surgical instruments:
| 2007 |
Merger with Isotron plc |
| 2006 |
Acquisition of Reed-Shilling to strengthen the Patient Care business |
| 2005 |
Acquisition of Shiloh plc to strengthen the Patient Care business |
| 2004 |
Acquisition of LTS in July - Synergy's first business in the Netherlands and the first step of a strategy to expand the business into Europe |
| 2003 |
Disposal of clinical waste disposal business allowing Synergy to focus on its core competencies of the Surgical and Healthtex divisions |
| 2002 |
Acquisition of Hays Clinical Support Services in April - the amalgamation of the two businesses makes Synergy the single largest Sterile Service provider in the UK |
| 2001 |
Listing on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange in August |
| 1999 |
Healthtex (UK) Limited acquired in December |
| 1997 |
Synergy develops alliance with Medline, the medical product distribution business |
| 1996 |
Synergy launches the UK’s first outsourced sterile instrument service unit
- The area laundry from Derbyshire Royal Infirmary NHS Trust acquired
- Acquisition of Initial Healthcare (Textiles) Limited
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| 1995 |
The Corby facility becomes one of the first in the UK to achieve CE certification for medical devices, meeting European Directives for quality control |
| 1991 |
The original business of the Group was established in November |