Inverness Buys Bulk

Inverness Medical Innovations, a point-of-care diagnostics company, made a splash with its $1.6 billion acquisition of Biosite. But the purchase was merely the latest step in a long-time strategy of growing through acquisition.

By Tom Salemi

This has been a bruising year for mergers and acquisitions. From Rupert Murdoch’s move on the Wall Street Journal to...

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