New Executive Vice President of Extended Care business area

Getinge, 24 August 2009

New Executive Vice President of Extended Care business area

Alex Meyers, 46, has been appointed new Executive Vice President of the Extended
Care business area within the Getinge Group.

Alex Meyers, who has a degree from Yale University in the US, has a very solid
and successful career that includes senior management positions with Unilever,
Orkla and Carlsberg. Most recently, he held the position as Senior Vice
President within the Carlsberg Group and was responsible for Western Europe, an
organisation with sales of slightly more than EUR 3 billion and some 11,000
employees. Alex has been a member of Carlsberg's group management since 2001.
Alex Meyers will assume his new position in mid-September.

Some time ago, Michael Berg, who has served as Executive Vice President of the
Extended Care business area since 2005, asked to resign in consultation with the
company from his position as head of the business area due to changes in his
family situation. Michael Berg led the Extended Care business area during a very
expansive and eventful period in which the business area implemented an
extensive structural program and more than doubled its size in terms of sales
from SEK 3 billion to nearly SEK 7 billion.


For further information:
Johan Malmquist, CEO 
+46 (0)35 15 55 00

GETINGE GROUP is a leading global provider of products and systems that
contribute to quality enhancement and cost efficiency within healthcare and life
sciences. We operate under the three brands of ArjoHuntleigh, GETINGE and
MAQUET. ArjoHuntleigh focuses on patient mobility and wound management
solutions. GETINGE provides solutions for infection control within healthcare
and contamination prevention within life sciences. MAQUET specializes in
solutions, therapies and products for surgical interventions and intensive care.