Sale of Healthcare Cataloger Complete
One Equity Partners announced the completed sale yesterday of its controlling interest in AbilityOne Products Corp. to Patterson Dental Co. for about $575 million.With forecasted sales of about $220 million this year, AbilityOne, Bolingbrook, IL, provides rehabilitation products to customers that include acute-care hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation clinics, dealers and schools.
AbilityOne's catalog offers 15,000 rehabilitation and assistive products from 1,500 suppliers.
One Equity Partners is the private equity arm of Bank One Corp. and Beecken Petty & Co., a healthcare private-equity firm.
