Dutch di­ag­nos­tics play­er Qi­a­gen con­firms buy­out talks fol­low­ing re­port of Ther­mo Fish­er's in­ter­est

Sev­er­al bid­ders have laid their eyes on Dutch di­ag­nos­tics firm Qi­a­gen — and Ther­mo Fish­er is re­port­ed­ly one of them.

Qi­a­gen, which is list­ed on the NYSE, no­ti­fied in­vestors on Fri­day that “it has be­gun a re­view of po­ten­tial strate­gic al­ter­na­tives af­ter re­ceiv­ing sev­er­al con­di­tion­al, non-bind­ing in­di­ca­tions of in­ter­est for the ac­qui­si­tion of all is­sued and out­stand­ing shares of the Com­pa­ny.” It didn’t name any of the po­ten­tial buy­ers.

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