{"id":609733,"date":"2023-11-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/11\/09\/saudi-health-firm-eyeing-minority-stake-in-ucp\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T00:00:00","slug":"saudi-health-firm-eyeing-minority-stake-in-ucp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/11\/09\/saudi-health-firm-eyeing-minority-stake-in-ucp\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi health firm eyeing minority stake in UCP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"> <strong>Saudi conglomerate <\/strong><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tamergroup.com\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Tamer Group<\/a><\/strong><strong> could acquire<\/strong><strong>30% of Egyptian pharma wholesaler United Company of <\/strong><strong>Pharmacists<\/strong>(UCP) for USD 35 mn before the end of this year, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/2s3t7z5f\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Asharq Business<\/a> reported, citing sources it says are in the know.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Who\u2019s selling?<\/strong> American wholesale company <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cencora.com\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Cencora<\/a> (formerly known as AmerisourceBergen) owns 50% of UCP and has already agreed with Tamer Group on the size and value of the sale, according to the news service. The remaining 50% of the company is owned by the family of the founder, Hossam Omar, UCP general manager Mohamed Galal <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/03539fbe-dd50-4e0e-8d86-735aaaf463e7\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">told Enterprise<\/a> in September.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-right-style:solid;border-top-width:0pt;border-left-style:solid;orphans:2;text-align:left;padding:0;margin:0;border-right-width:0pt;line-height:1.15;border-left-width:0pt;border-top-style:solid;border-bottom-width:0pt;border-bottom-style:solid;widows:2\"><strong>UCP is seeking much-needed finance to weather its debt crisis:<\/strong> The company, one of the largest pharma distributors in Egypt, has been seeking new finance sources to resolve a growing debt problem, Al Mal reported in September. UCP controls a third of Egypt\u2019s pharma distribution market and supplies 38.5k pharmacies and 2k hospitals, according to the group\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedcompanyofpharmacists.com\/home\/-\/asset_publisher\/E1eQ\/content\/about-us?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unitedcompanyofpharmacists.com%2Fhome%3Fp_p_id%3D101_INSTANCE_E1eQ%26p_p_lifecycle%3D0%26p_p_state%3Dnormal%26p_p_mode%3Dview%26p_p_col_id%3Dcolumn-1%26p_p_col_pos%3D1%26p_p_col_count%3D7\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-right-style:solid;border-top-width:0pt;border-left-style:solid;orphans:2;text-align:left;padding:0;margin:0;border-right-width:0pt;line-height:1.15;border-left-width:0pt;border-top-style:solid;border-bottom-width:0pt;border-bottom-style:solid;widows:2\"><strong>Advisors: <\/strong>JPMorgan is advising Cencora on the transaction, according to Asharq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saudi conglomerate is seeking 30% stake for USD 35 mn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":609734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7363],"tags":[72,7128],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-609733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ma-watch","tag-enterpriseam","tag-ma-watch","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"d06c6dc1-fa9c-4d06-92dd-5d51809730fe","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/11\/400.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Saudi health firm could acquire minority stake in Egypt\u2019s UCP this year !_StoryTags_! pharma, United Company of Pharmacists, Tamer Group, Saudi Arabia, investment watch","related_issue":[609724],"teaser":"The Saudi conglomerate is seeking 30% stake for USD 35 mn","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2023\/11\/.7786eb74-99d2-410d-992f-df7cb7055894.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Saudi health firm eyeing minority stake in UCP? 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