Qiagen to buy Gentra Systems for $38M

21 May 2006

Dutch provider of molecular diagnostic products Qiagen NV has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all the outstanding shares of Gentra Systems, a Minnesota, USA-based privately-held developer, maker and supplier of non-solid phase nucleic purification products. Qiagen will pay $38.0 million to buy the company which will expand its position as a provider of pre-analytical and molecular diagnostics, it says. As a result, Qiagen expects to incur one-time charges of about $0.02 in earnings per share and for Gentra to add $6.0 million to first-half sales.

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