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Associated Press
6 days ago
- Business
- Associated Press
Pitanium Limited Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering
HONG KONG, May 30, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Pitanium Limited ('Pitanium' or the 'Company'), a company that retails its proprietary brand focusing on beauty and personal care products, announced today that it priced its initial public offering of 1,750,000 Class A ordinary shares (the 'Class A Ordinary Shares') at $4.00 per Class A Ordinary Share (the 'Offering'). Cathay Securities, Inc. acted as the sole underwriter to the Offering (the 'Underwriter'). The Company granted the Underwriter a 45-day option to purchase up to 262,500 additional Class A Ordinary Shares, at US$4.00 per Class A Ordinary Share (the 'Over-allotment'), less underwriting commissions. The Class A Ordinary Shares have been approved for listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market and are expected to commence trading on May 30, 2025, under the ticker symbol 'PTNM.' The Offering is expected to close on or about June 2, 2025, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. Proceeds from the Offering will be used for: (i) enhancing customer experience through launching a mobile application; (ii) developing a new line of products solely for home treatment; (iii) expanding the Company's product portfolio and exploring new suppliers; (iv) further enhancing the Company's marketing strategies; and (v) working capital and other general corporate purposes. Loeb Smith Attorneys, Loeb & Loeb LLP, TC & CO., and Tian Yuan Law Firm acted as British Virgin Islands legal counsel, U.S. legal counsel, Hong Kong legal counsel, and PRC legal counsel to the Company, respectively. VCL Law LLP as U.S. securities counsel for the Underwriter in connection to the Offering. The Offering was conducted pursuant to the Company's Registration Statement on Form F-1 (File No. 333-284998) previously filed with and subsequently declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ('SEC') on May 29, 2025. The Offering was made by means of a prospectus. Copies of the prospectus may be obtained, for free, by visiting EDGAR on the SEC's website at Alternatively, copies of the final prospectus related to the Offering may be obtained, when available, from Cathay Securities, Inc. at 40 Wall Street, Suite 3600, New York, NY 10005, or by telephone at +1 (855) 939-3888. This press release has been prepared for informational purposes only and shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any securities, and no sale of these securities may be made in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or other jurisdiction. About Pitanium Limited ('Pitanium') Pitanium Limited, incorporated in British Virgin Islands, is a retailer in Hong Kong focusing on the sale of its proprietary brand products in the field of beauty and personal care, namely PITANIUM and BIG PI online. It also generates revenue from the offline sale at six retail stores situated in Hong Kong's premier shopping destinations. The Company emphasizes product design and development with an in-house product development team working closely with its original equipment manufacturing ('OEM') and original design manufacturing ('ODM') suppliers. It takes a proactive approach in expanding its product portfolio with a view to staying ahead of market trends and showcasing its ability to cater to the evolving needs of its customers. For more information, please refer to the Company's website: Forward-Looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events or performance, and underlying assumptions and other statements that are other than statements of historical facts. When the Company uses words such as 'may, 'will, 'intend,' 'should,' 'believe,' 'expect,' 'anticipate,' 'project,' 'estimate' or similar expressions that do not relate solely to historical matters, it is making forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, the Company's statements regarding the expected trading of its Ordinary Shares on the Nasdaq Capital Market and the closing of the Offering. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that may cause the actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectations discussed in the forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to uncertainties and risks including, but not limited to, the uncertainties related to market conditions and the completion of the initial public offering on the anticipated terms or at all, and other factors discussed in the 'Risk Factors' section of the registration statement filed with the SEC. For these reasons, among others, investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements in this press release. Additional factors are discussed in the Company's filings with the SEC, which are available for review at The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly revise these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that arise after the date hereof. For more information, please contact: Pitanium Limited Investor Relations Department Phone: +852 6297 5255 Email: [email protected] Ascent Investor Relations LLC Tina Xiao Phone: +1 646-932-7242 Email: [email protected]
Boston Globe
26-03-2025
- Business
- Boston Globe
SpaceX allows Chinese investors to buy stakes in company
In December, Kahlon testified that SpaceX prefers to avoid investors from China because it is a defense contractor. There is a major exception though, he said: SpaceX finds it 'acceptable' for Chinese investors to buy into the company through offshore vehicles. 'The primary mechanism is that those investors would come through intermediate entities that they would create or others would create,' Kahlon said. 'Typically they would set up BVI structures or Cayman structures or Hong Kong structures and various other ones,' he added, using the acronym for the British Virgin Islands. Offshore vehicles are often used to keep investors anonymous. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Experts called SpaceX's approach unusual, saying they were troubled by the possibility that a defense contractor would take active steps to conceal foreign ownership interests. Related : Advertisement Kahlon, who has long been close to the company's leadership, has said he owns billions of dollars of SpaceX stock. His investment firm also acts as a middleman, raising money from investors to buy highly sought SpaceX shares. He has routed money from China through the Caribbean to buy stakes in SpaceX multiple times, according to the court filings. The legal dispute centers on an aborted 2021 deal, when SpaceX executives grew angry after news broke that a Chinese firm was going to buy $50 million of the company's stock. SpaceX then had the purchase canceled. In separate testimony, the rocket company's CFO explained that the media coverage was 'not helpful for our company as a government contractor.' SpaceX's business is built on those contracts, with the U.S. government paying the company billions to handle sensitive work like building a classified spy satellite network. Company executives were concerned that coverage of the deal could lead to problems with national security regulators in the U.S., according to Kahlon's testimony and a filing from his attorneys. Advertisement SpaceX, which also launches rockets for NASA and sells satellite internet service, is perhaps the most important pillar of Musk's fortune. His Federal law gives regulators broad power to oversee foreign investments in tech companies and defense contractors. Companies only have to proactively report Chinese investments in limited circumstances, and there aren't hard and fast rules for how much is too much. However, the government can initiate investigations and then block or reverse transactions they deem a national security threat. That authority typically does not apply to purely passive investments in which a foreign investor is buying only a small slice of a company. But experts said that federal officials regularly ask companies to add up Chinese investments into an aggregate total. The The new materials do not contain allegations that the Chinese investments in SpaceX would violate the law or were directed by the Chinese government. The company did not respond to detailed questions from ProPublica. Kahlon declined to comment on the reasons for SpaceX's approach. It's not uncommon for foreigners to buy U.S. stock through a vehicle in the Cayman Islands, often to save money on taxes. But experts said it was strange for the party on the other side of a deal — the U.S. company — to prefer such an arrangement. Advertisement ProPublica spoke to 13 national security lawyers, corporate attorneys and experts in Chinese finance about the SpaceX testimony. Twelve said they had never heard of a U.S. company with such a requirement and could not think of a purpose for it besides concealing Chinese ownership in SpaceX. The 13th said they had heard of companies adopting the practice as a way to hide foreign investment. 'It is certainly a policy of obfuscation,' Andrew Verstein, a UCLA law professor who has studied defense contractors, said of the SpaceX testimony. 'It hints at potentially serious problems. We count on companies to be forthright with the government about whether they've taken money from America's rivals.' The new material adds to the questions surrounding Musk's extensive ties with China, which have taken a new urgency since the world's richest man joined the Trump White House. Musk has regularly met with Communist Party officials in China to discuss his business interests in the country, which is where Last week, The Delaware court records reveal SpaceX insiders' intense preoccupation with secrecy when it comes to China and detail a network of independent middlemen peddling SpaceX shares to eager Chinese investors. (Unlike a public company, SpaceX exercises significant control over who can buy into the company, with the ability to block sales even between outside parties.) Advertisement But the case leaves unanswered the question of exactly what percentage of SpaceX is owned by Chinese investors. Related : The The experts said the court testimony is puzzling enough that it raises the possibility that SpaceX has more substantial ties to China than are publicly known and is working to mask them from U.S. regulators. A more innocent explanation, they said, is that SpaceX is seeking to avoid scrutiny of perfectly legal investments by the media or Congress. Once a welcome source of cash, Bret Johnsen, the SpaceX CFO, testified in the Delaware dispute that the company does not have a formal policy about accepting investments from countries deemed adversaries by the U.S. government. Rather, he said, SpaceX has 'preferences that kind of feel like a policy.' Sensitive to how such financial ties could make it 'more challenging to win government contracts,' Johnsen said that he asks fund managers to 'stay away from Russian, Chinese, Iranian, North Korean ownership interest.' Advertisement In the public portion of his deposition, Johnsen wasn't asked whether routing Chinese money offshore made such investments acceptable to SpaceX. But he lent credibility to Kahlon, the investor who said that was enough to get the green light. Johnsen said that he has a long-standing personal relationship with Kahlon and that he's discussed the company's approach to Chinese ownership with him. The CFO added that he trusts Kahlon to bring in only investors that the company approves of. Over the years, Kahlon has personally helped Chinese investors buy stakes in SpaceX on 'a number of occasions' through 'proxies such as British Virgin Islands- or Cayman Islands-based entities,' according to a filing from his lawyers. He also knows of 'many' other Chinese investors who own SpaceX shares, the filing said. He learned about them through conversations with investors and brokers, as well 'from having viewed investor lists.' Kahlon is a consummate SpaceX insider. He 'has been with the company in one form or fashion longer than I have,' said Johnsen, who's worked at SpaceX for 14 years. Early in his career, Kahlon worked for Peter Thiel at the same venture capital firm that once employed JD Vance, and he first met with SpaceX around 2007 a few years after it was founded. Kahlon eventually opened his own firm called Tomales Bay Capital, becoming a major player among the middlemen who cater to would-be investors in SpaceX. He's helped people like former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos buy pieces of the rocket company. He also said he has served as a 'back channel' between SpaceX and international regulators as the company sought to bring its satellite internet products to countries like India. Kahlon and Johnsen were forced to testify after the deal with a Chinese firm fell apart in late 2021, sparking years of litigation. That year, Kahlon had the opportunity to buy more than half a billion dollars of SpaceX stock from a West Palm Beach private equity firm. Kahlon had already brought Chinese money into SpaceX before, he testified, and he again turned to China as he gathered funds to purchase the stake. Kahlon soon connected with a Shanghai-based company called Leo Group, short for 'Love Each Other.' As Kahlon made his pitch during their first call, Leo was told that 'it would be best not to disclose the name of SpaceX,' an executive at the Chinese company later testified. 'They deemed that information to be quite sensitive.' Leo quickly sent Kahlon $50 million. He then messaged another business associate in China: 'Have any folks interested in spcex still?' Kahlon testified that he was planning to tell Johnsen about the Leo investment and expected the CFO to sign off on it. But the deal blew up after Leo mentioned SpaceX in a regulatory filing that generated widespread coverage in the Chinese business press. (Whether Leo had Kahlon's permission to make the disclosure is a matter of dispute.) In a panic, Kahlon enlisted a Leo vice president to try to get the articles taken down. But when Johnsen and Tim Hughes, SpaceX's top in-house lobbyist, spotted the stories, they grew alarmed. 'This is not helpful for our company as a government contractor,' the SpaceX CFO later testified regarding the press attention. 'It, in essence, arms our competitors with something to use as a narrative against us.' 'In my entire professional career, this was literally the worst situation that I've been in,' Kahlon said. 'I failed at what I thought was a core responsibility in the relationship we had.' SpaceX ultimately decided to let Kahlon buy only a smaller portion of the stake, purchasing much of the half-billion dollar investment itself. According to contemporaneous messages and testimony from Kahlon, he was told that decision was made by Musk. However, Kahlon continued to have a strong relationship with SpaceX after the mishap, court records say, with the company allowing his firm to keep buying a large quantity of shares. Musk's business interests in China extend far beyond SpaceX's ownership structure — a fact that has drawn criticism from Republican lawmakers over the years. In 2022, after Tesla opened a showroom in the Chinese region where the government runs Uyghur internment camps, then-Sen. Marco Rubio tweeted, 'Nationless corporations are helping the Chinese Communist Party cover up genocide.' In addition to Tesla's sprawling factory in Shanghai, last year, almost 40% of Tesla's sales were to Chinese customers. The company has also secured major tax breaks and regulatory victories in the country. In 2019, the Chinese premier offered Musk the country's equivalent of a green card. In recent years, the billionaire has offered sympathetic remarks about China's desire to reclaim Taiwan and lavished praise on the government. 'My experience with the government of China is that they actually are very responsive to the people,' Musk said toward the end of Trump's first term. 'In fact, possibly more responsive to the happiness of people than in the U.S.'
Asia Times
26-03-2025
- Business
- Asia Times
How Elon Musk's SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China
This article was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Elon Musk's aerospace giant SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records. The rare picture of SpaceX's approach recently emerged in an under-the-radar corporate dispute in Delaware. Both SpaceX's chief financial officer and Iqbaljit Kahlon, a major investor, were forced to testify in the case. In December, Kahlon testified that SpaceX prefers to avoid investors from China because it is a defense contractor. There is a major exception, though, he said: SpaceX finds it 'acceptable' for Chinese investors to buy into the company through offshore vehicles. 'The primary mechanism is that those investors would come through intermediate entities that they would create or others would create,' Kahlon said. 'Typically they would set up BVI structures or Cayman structures or Hong Kong structures and various other ones,' he added, using the initials of the British Virgin Islands. Offshore vehicles are often used to keep investors anonymous. Experts called SpaceX's approach unusual, saying they were troubled by the possibility that a defense contractor would take active steps to conceal foreign ownership interests. Kahlon, who has long been close to the company's leadership, has said he owns billions of dollars of SpaceX stock. His investment firm also acts as a middleman, raising money from investors to buy highly sought SpaceX shares. He has routed money from China through the Caribbean to buy stakes in SpaceX multiple times, according to the court filings. The legal dispute centers on an aborted 2021 deal, when SpaceX executives grew angry after news broke that a Chinese firm was going to buy $50 million of the company's stock. SpaceX then had the purchase canceled. In separate testimony, the rocket company's CFO explained that the media coverage was 'not helpful for our company as a government contractor.' SpaceX's business is built on those contracts, with the US government paying the company billions to handle sensitive work like building a classified spy satellite network. Company executives were concerned that coverage of the deal could lead to problems with national security regulators in the US, according to Kahlon's testimony and a filing from his attorneys. SpaceX, which also launches rockets for NASA and sells satellite internet service, is perhaps the most important pillar of Musk's fortune. His estimated 42% stake in the company is valued at around $150 billion. If he owned nothing else, he'd still be richer than Bill Gates. Federal law gives regulators broad power to oversee foreign investments in tech companies and defense contractors. Companies only have to proactively report Chinese investments in limited circumstances, and there aren't hard and fast rules for how much is too much. However, the government can initiate investigations and then block or reverse transactions deemed national security threats. That authority typically does not apply to purely passive investments in which a foreign investor is buying only a small slice of a company. But experts said that federal officials regularly ask companies to add up Chinese investments into an aggregate total. The US government charges that China has a systematic strategy of using even minority investments to secure leverage over companies in sensitive industries, as well as to gain privileged access to information about cutting-edge technology. US regulators view even private investors in China as potential agents of the country's government, experts said. The new materials do not contain allegations that the Chinese investments in SpaceX would violate the law or were directed by the Chinese government. The company did not respond to detailed questions from ProPublica. Kahlon declined to comment on the reasons for SpaceX's approach. It's not uncommon for foreigners to buy US stock through a vehicle in the Cayman Islands, often to save money on taxes. But experts said it was strange for the party on the other side of a deal — the US company — to prefer such an arrangement. ProPublica spoke to 13 national security lawyers, corporate attorneys and experts in Chinese finance about the SpaceX testimony. Twelve said they had never heard of a US company with such a requirement and could not think of a purpose for it besides concealing Chinese ownership in SpaceX. The 13th said they had heard of companies adopting the practice as a way to hide foreign investment. 'It is certainly a policy of obfuscation,' Andrew Verstein, a UCLA law professor who has studied defense contractors, said of the SpaceX testimony. 'It hints at potentially serious problems. We count on companies to be forthright with the government about whether they've taken money from America's rivals.' Elon Musk. Photo: X The new material adds to the questions surrounding Musk's extensive ties with China, which have taken a new urgency since the world's richest man joined the Trump White House. Musk has regularly met with Communist Party officials in China to discuss his business interests in the country, which is where about half of Tesla cars are built. Last week, The New York Times reported that Musk was scheduled to get a briefing on secret plans for potential war between China and the US. The Times later reported that the briefing was called off, and Trump denied it had ever been scheduled. The president told reporters it would be wrong to show the war plans to the businessman: 'Elon has businesses in China, and he would be susceptible perhaps to that,' Trump said. The Delaware court records reveal SpaceX insiders' intense preoccupation with secrecy when it comes to China and detail a network of independent middlemen peddling SpaceX shares to eager Chinese investors. (Unlike a public company, SpaceX exercises significant control over who can buy into the company, with the ability to block sales even between outside parties.) But the case leaves unanswered the question of exactly what percentage of SpaceX is owned by Chinese investors. The Financial Times recently reported that Chinese investors had managed to acquire small amounts of SpaceX stock and that they were turning to offshore vehicles to do so. The deals were structured to limit the information investors receive, the outlet said. The Delaware records reveal additional, previously unreported Chinese investments in SpaceX but do not say how much they were worth. The few Chinese investments in SpaceX where a dollar figure is publicly known total well under $100 million. The experts said the court testimony is puzzling enough that it raises the possibility that SpaceX has more substantial ties to China than are publicly known and is working to mask them from US regulators. A more innocent explanation, they said, is that SpaceX is seeking to avoid scrutiny of perfectly legal investments by the media or Congress. Once a welcome source of cash, Chinese investment in Silicon Valley has become the subject of intense debate in Washington as hostility between the two countries deepened in recent years. Corporate lawyers told ProPublica they'd counsel their clients against requiring the use of offshore vehicles because it could make it look like they are trying to hide something from the government. Bret Johnsen, the SpaceX CFO, testified in the Delaware dispute that the company does not have a formal policy about accepting investments from countries deemed adversaries by the US government. Rather, he said, SpaceX has 'preferences that kind of feel like a policy.' Sensitive to how such financial ties could make it 'more challenging to win government contracts,' Johnsen said that he asks fund managers to 'stay away from Russian, Chinese, Iranian, North Korean ownership interest.' In the public portion of his deposition, Johnsen wasn't asked whether routing Chinese money offshore made such investments acceptable to SpaceX. But he lent credibility to Kahlon, the investor who said that was enough to get the green light. Johnsen said that he has a long-standing personal relationship with Kahlon and that he's discussed the company's approach to Chinese ownership with him. The CFO added that he trusts Kahlon to bring in only investors that the company approves of. Over the years, Kahlon has personally helped Chinese investors buy stakes in SpaceX on 'a number of occasions' through 'proxies such as British Virgin Islands- or Cayman Islands-based entities,' according to a filing from his lawyers. He also knows of 'many' other Chinese investors who own SpaceX shares, the filing said. He learned about them through conversations with investors and brokers, as well 'from having viewed investor lists.' Kahlon is a consummate SpaceX insider. He 'has been with the company in one form or fashion longer than I have,' said Johnsen, who's worked at SpaceX for 14 years. Early in his career, Kahlon worked for Peter Thiel at the same venture capital firm that once employed JD Vance, and he first met with SpaceX around 2007 a few years after it was founded. Kahlon eventually opened his own firm called Tomales Bay Capital, becoming a major player among the middlemen who cater to would-be investors in SpaceX. He's helped people like former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos buy pieces of the rocket company. He also said he has served as a 'back channel' between SpaceX and international regulators as the company sought to bring its satellite internet products to countries like India. Kahlon and Johnsen were forced to testify after the deal with a Chinese firm fell apart in late 2021, sparking years of litigation. That year, Kahlon had the opportunity to buy more than half a billion dollars of SpaceX stock from a West Palm Beach private equity firm. Kahlon had already brought Chinese money into SpaceX before, he testified, and he again turned to China as he gathered funds to purchase the stake. Kahlon soon connected with a Shanghai-based company called Leo Group, short for 'Love Each Other.' As Kahlon made his pitch during their first call, Leo was told that 'it would be best not to disclose the name of SpaceX,' an executive at the Chinese company later testified. 'They deemed that information to be quite sensitive.' Leo quickly sent Kahlon $50 million. He then messaged another business associate in China: 'Have any folks interested in spcex still?' Kahlon testified that he was planning to tell Johnsen about the Leo investment and expected the CFO to sign off on it. But the deal blew up after Leo mentioned SpaceX in a regulatory filing that generated widespread coverage in the Chinese business press. (Whether Leo had Kahlon's permission to make the disclosure is a matter of dispute.) In a panic, Kahlon enlisted a Leo vice president to try to get the articles taken down. But when Johnsen and Tim Hughes, SpaceX's top in-house lobbyist, spotted the stories, they grew alarmed. 'This is not helpful for our company as a government contractor,' the SpaceX CFO later testified regarding the press attention. 'It, in essence, arms our competitors with something to use as a narrative against us.' 'In my entire professional career, this was literally the worst situation that I've been in,' Kahlon said. 'I failed at what I thought was a core responsibility in the relationship we had.' SpaceX ultimately decided to let Kahlon buy only a smaller portion of the stake, purchasing much of the half-billion dollar investment itself. According to contemporaneous messages and testimony from Kahlon, he was told that decision was made by Musk. However, Kahlon continued to have a strong relationship with SpaceX after the mishap, court records say, with the company allowing his firm to keep buying a large quantity of shares. Musk's business interests in China extend far beyond SpaceX's ownership structure — a fact that has drawn criticism from Republican lawmakers over the years. In 2022, after Tesla opened a showroom in the Chinese region where the government runs Uyghur internment camps, then-Senator Marco Rubio tweeted, 'Nationless corporations are helping the Chinese Communist Party cover up genocide.' In addition to Tesla's sprawling factory in Shanghai, last year, almost 40% of Tesla's sales were to Chinese customers. The company has also secured major tax breaks and regulatory victories in the country. In 2019, the Chinese premier offered Musk the country's equivalent of a green card. In recent years, the billionaire has offered sympathetic remarks about China's desire to reclaim Taiwan and lavished praise on the government. 'My experience with the government of China is that they actually are very responsive to the people,' Musk said toward the end of Trump's first term. 'In fact, possibly more responsive to the happiness of people than in the US.' Josh Kaplan can be reached by email at and by Signal or WhatsApp at 734-834-9383. Justin Elliott can be reached by email at justin@ and by Signal or WhatsApp at 774-826-6240. Alex Mierjeski contributed research. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox.
Yahoo
10-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
BVI Medical raises $1bn as it targets larger global footprint
Ophthalmology specialist BVI Medical has completed a $1bn capital raise as it positions itself to challenge the might of seasoned eye-surgery device suppliers such as Alcon and Johnson & Johnson (J&J). US-headquartered BVI executed the strategic raise in partnership with TPG, a private equity company with assets under management totalling $246bn. The investment represents a doubling-down from TPG, which acquired BVI from RoundTable Healthcare Partners for an undisclosed amount in 2016. BVI offers a range of ophthalmic devices, ranging from cryosurgery and cataract surgery systems to intraocular lenses and instruments for retinal surgery. The company's primary manufacturing facilities are based in the US, though it plans to expand its global footprint based on the big-dollar contribution from TPG. 'This investment marks a pivotal moment for BVI as we scale our capabilities to meet the rising demand for advanced ophthalmic solutions,' said BVI CEO Shervin Korangy. BVI currently supplies devices to surgical teams in more than 90 countries, either directly or through distribution channels. It is a privately held company, so no financials are available publicly from last year or insights on which regions generated the most revenue. Aside from pointing to new product launches and widening the reach of its customer base, the company did not disclose detailed plans of where the investment will be funnelled. BVI stated only that the investment refinances existing debt and adds new equity. BVI has been ramping up its global expansion efforts and boosted its intraocular lens manufacturing capabilities in Europe in 2023. The new facility in Belgium opened in July 2023, enhancing the yield and efficiency of its intraocular lens business. In the same year, it also expanded its presence in Spain and Portugal with the acquisition of ophthalmic surgery device supplier Medical Mix. Within its intraocular business, BVI also launched new products such as its Serenity line intraocular lenses. The ophthalmic device market was estimated to be worth $7.8bn in 2024 and is forecast to reach $9.8bn by 2033, fuelled by increasing prevalence of eye diseases among ageing global populations. Analysis by GlobalData places Alcon, previously a Novartis subsidiary until its spin-off in 2019, as the company with the largest global market share. J&J Vision and Zeiss take second and third spots, respectively, as per the market analysis. Zeiss recently made its own financial play, acquiring Dutch Ophthalmic Research Center for $1.07bn last year. "BVI Medical raises $1bn as it targets larger global footprint" was originally created and published by Medical Device Network, a GlobalData owned brand. The information on this site has been included in good faith for general informational purposes only. It is not intended to amount to advice on which you should rely, and we give no representation, warranty or guarantee, whether express or implied as to its accuracy or completeness. You must obtain professional or specialist advice before taking, or refraining from, any action on the basis of the content on our site.
