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EQS-Adhoc: AEVIS VICTORIA SA: Swiss Medical Network SA - Acquisition offer to all the shareholders of GENERALE BEAULIEU HOLDING SA - Clinique Générale-Beaulieu joining Swiss Medical Network

EQS Group-Ad-hoc: AEVIS VICTORIA SA / Key word(s): Acquisition
AEVIS VICTORIA SA: Swiss Medical Network SA - Acquisition offer to all the
shareholders of GENERALE BEAULIEU HOLDING SA - Clinique Générale-Beaulieu
joining Swiss Medical Network

13.09.2016 / 18:30
Release of an ad hoc announcement pursuant to Art. 53 KR.


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PRESS RELEASE

Acquisition offer to all the shareholders of GENERALE BEAULIEU HOLDING SA -
Clinique Générale-Beaulieu joining Swiss Medical Network

GENERALE BEAULIEU HOLDING SA ("GBH") and Swiss Medical Network SA, a 100%
subsidiary of AEVIS VICTORIA SA (listed on SIX Swiss Exchange), today announce
the signing of a transaction agreement inviting Clinique Générale-Beaulieu to
join Swiss Medical Network.

Swiss Medical Network is one of the leading private hospital groups in
Switzerland, and the only one present in the three main linguistic regions. The
group, which counts 15 private establishments in Switzerland, around 1,250
admitting physicians and 2,750 employees, is already present in Geneva with the
Centre Médico-Chirurgical des Eaux-Vives and the Centre d'Oncologie des
Eaux-Vives.

Clinique Générale-Beaulieu, founded in 1899, is a multi-disciplinary private
clinic, specialised in orthopaedics, general surgery, urology, gynaecology and
obstetrics. The clinic also has a radiology institute, an institute of nuclear
medicine and a physiotherapy & functional rehabilitation centre. Equipped with a
technical platform of the latest generation and eight operating theatres,
Clinique Générale-Beaulieu accounts for around 5,700 hospitalisations per year.
Clinique Générale-Beaulieu has approximately 400 employees and 600 admitting
physicians.

The clinic buildings, which are owned by GBH, are ideally located in the heart
of the residential area Champel in Geneva, in very pleasant natural
surroundings. The main building of the clinic was constructed in 1983 and has a
total surface of 18,000 m2. On its site, Clinique Générale-Beaulieu accommodates
approximately 70 medical practices, covering all medical specialties.

By joining Swiss Medical Network, Clinique Générale-Beaulieu will benefit from
the advantages of a national group, allowing the realisation of synergies and
the development of medical cooperations through the creation of multi-site
competence centres. An independent management will at the same time allow
Clinique Générale-Beaulieu to safeguard its values and specificities.

The objective of this transaction is to reinforce Clinique Générale-Beaulieu's
position as the benchmark private clinic in Geneva and to further ensure its
development - to the benefit of its patients, employees and physicians.

Swiss Medical Network will thus collaborate with the employees and admitting
physicians of Clinique Générale-Beaulieu as it has done with the other clinics
of the group, in order to continue developing this independent establishment,
strongly embedded in the regional healthcare landscape and simultaneously
benefiting from the strengths and structure of a national group.

In accordance with the transaction agreement, Swiss Medical Network will submit
an acquisition offer in cash to all the shareholders of GBH on 14 September
2016, for all registered shares of GBH, at a price of CHF 25,000 per share. This
offer will allow all shareholders to sell their shares at an attractive price,
in particular compared to the last prices paid on the OTC-X market. The price
offered by Swiss Medical Network values GBH at CHF 187.5 million.

The Board of Directors of GBH has decided to recommend to its shareholders to
accept the offer of Swiss Medical Network and has committed to approve the
registration of Swiss Medical Network SA in the share registry of GBH as owner
of all the shares that will be tendered in the context of this offer.

In this context, Swiss Medical Network SA also signed an agreement with Albin
Kistler AG on 13 September 2016 regarding the acquisition of a participation of
approximately 29% of GBH at the above price of CHF 25,000.- per share.

Informations:
Media Office Swiss Medical Network, +41 (0) 22 366 99 87,  media@gsmn.ch
Philippe R. Blangey, +41 (0) 43 268 32 35 or +41 (0) 79 785 46 32, 
prb@dynamicsgroup.ch

Cédric Alfonso, +41 (0) 22 839 56 65,  invest@beaulieu.ch

About Swiss Medical Network:
Swiss Medical Network SA is the 2nd largest network of private hospitals in
Switzerland, present in the three main linguistic regions. Swiss Medical
Network′s growth strategy focuses on the creation of a national network through
the acquisition of hospitals and the restructuring of their operations. Swiss
Medical Network′s main objective is to offer first class hospital care to Swiss
and foreign patients. Its distinctive features include high quality services, an
excellent medical and hotel infrastructure and a pleasant environment. Swiss
Medical Network today operates 15 private hospitals in Switzerland.

About AEVIS VICTORIA SA - Investing for a better life
AEVIS VICTORIA SA invests in services to people, healthcare, hospitality, life
sciences and lifestyle. AEVIS VICTORIA′s main shareholdings are Swiss Medical
Network SA, the second largest group of private hospitals in Switzerland,
Victoria-Jungfrau Collection AG, a luxury hotel group managing four luxury
hotels in Switzerland, a hospitals and hospitality real estate division
comprising 40 properties, Medgate, the leading telemedicine provider in
Switzerland, and NESCENS SA, a brand dedicated to better aging. AEVIS is listed
on the Swiss Reporting Standard of the SIX Swiss Exchange (AEVS.SW).
www.aevis.com.
 


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