The principal business activity of the Cook Group in EMEA is the design, manufacture and distribution of medical devices to customers and the holding of shares in European sales subsidiaries. The Group has two manufacturing plants in Europe, based in Ireland and Denmark. The European master distribution centre is based in Germany. The Group has a large customer base of hospitals and clinics in Western Europe and also exports to distributors in Eastern Europe, the Middle East Africa as well as supplying products to the North South American Asia Pacific markets. The medical devices sold by the Group are categorised into two business divisions, Vascular and MedSurg. Devices under the Vascular division are for aortic and peripheral interventional, lead management and interventional radiology procedures. Devices under the Med Surg division serve customers in critical care, endoscopy, otolaryngology/head and neck surgery, reproductive health, surgery, and urology cl (...)