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2008-10-02

Hill-Rom announces acquisition of Liko

Fast facts about Liko AB

General facts about Liko is found on our website, www.liko.com/int.

Founded:	1979 in the village of Alvik in the north of Sweden.
Ownership:	A Hill-Rom company, www.hill-rom.com
CEO Hill-Rom:	Peter Soderbergh
General Manager, Liko:	Jacques Lafon
Mission:	“Liko will provide care staff and patients with efficient, easy-to-use and safe assistive devices, mainly products for lifting, for use in connection with functional disabilities.”
History:	Liko was founded in1979 by Gunnar Liljedahl. As an engineer and designer of special assistive devices with the Norrbotten County Council in northern Sweden, he had daily contact with people in need of assistive devices, mainly for lifting. In order to help caregivers and patients across the world, he started his own company, Liko AB. Today Liko’s products help hundreds of thousand of people every day across the world.
Area of business:	Liko develops, manufactures and markets patient lifts, such as mobile lifts and overhead lift systems (ceiling lifts), for safe patient handling. We have the market's widest assortment of slings, repositioning sheets and other lifting accessories.
Liko Companies:	Liko AB. R&D: Liko R&D AB Education: Liko Competence AB. Production: Liko Produktion AB, Liko Textil AB. Sales: Liko UK (United Kingdom), Liko GmbH (Germany), Liko North America Inc. (North America).
Distributors:	Distributors in more than 30 countries world-wide.
Export share:	~ 75%
Market share:	Sweden ~60% World wide ~20%
Employees:	Sweden ~ 200 employees, Liko Group ~300 employees.
Growth:	~ 20% per year
Head office:	Alvik outside of Luleå town in the north of Sweden.

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Peter Soderberg,
CEO Hill-Rom

Jacques Lafon
General Manager, Liko Internationl

Barbro och Gunnar Liljedahl

Gunnar Liljedahl,
Founder Liko.

Barbro Liljedahl
Co- Founder Liko.

Liko’s head office
in Alvik, Luleå.

Viking M’s intelligence is found in the control box that contains Liko Diagnostic System.

Viking M has a wireless remote control that allows the carer to work closely to the patient..

Viking M has most of the best features and is ideal for the most common lifting situations, including lifting from the floor.

With HandyTube Short, the patient can easily reposition himself by his own strength.

Lateral transfers between beds can be quick, safe and easy with HandyTube Wide.

HandyTube Wide can be used to turn a patient in bed.

HandySheet Long helps applying a sling for a supine patient.

HandySheet Short is here applied the patients back so that the slings slides down easier .The pockets, a registered Liko Design, makes the task easier.

Likorall is probably the world most sold and used overhead lift. On the picture:
Likorall 250

Multirall 200 is a portable overhead lift.

Liko’s mobile lift Viking XL is designed to lift patients weighing up to 300 kg (660 lbs).

Liko’s overhead lifts are also popular amongst special schools.

Liko’s overhead lifts Likorall used at Sunderbyns Hospital outside of Luleå.

The world’s first – overhead lift mounted in a bus.

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