{"id":18979,"date":"2020-07-15T15:15:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T19:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/caisse-adding-financing-to-quebec-based-infection-control-company-148054"},"modified":"2020-07-15T15:15:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T19:15:09","slug":"caisse-adding-financing-to-quebec-based-infection-control-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/07\/15\/caisse-adding-financing-to-quebec-based-infection-control-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Caisse adding financing to Quebec-based infection control company"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Quebec2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Caisse adding financing to Quebec-based infection control company\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff <\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;July 15, 2020 <\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The&nbsp;Caisse de d\u00e9p\u00f4t et placement du Qu\u00e9bec is&nbsp;lending financing to Medicom Inc., a Quebec-based manufacturer and distributor of infection control products.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">The company, which also specializes in personal protective equipment, including medical grade face masks and gloves, has operations&nbsp;in North America, Europe and Asia. Through&nbsp;13 distribution centres and&nbsp;10 plants,&nbsp;it serves the health care and industrial sectors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">While the&nbsp;Caisse is already&nbsp;one of Medicom\u2019s financial partners,&nbsp;its support will be used to expand the company in Asian markets in the coming years. Indeed, the company is&nbsp;established in developed countries, but growth markets represent the next step in&nbsp;its strategy to expand through acquisitions, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/caisse-providing-150m-in-financing-to-quebec-based-insurer-122747\">Caisse providing $150M in financing to Quebec-based insurer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">\u201cCDPQ is pleased to renew its support for Medicom and allow it to explore new avenues for expansion and increase access to its infection control products,\u201d&nbsp;said Kim Thomassin, executive vice-president and head of Quebec investments and stewardship investing at the Caisse, in a press release. \u201cGiven the nature of its industry and its multi-year contracts, Medicom possesses the resilience that perfectly aligns with CDPQ\u2019s strategy as a long-term investor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/caisse-adding-financing-to-quebec-based-infection-control-company-148054\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff &nbsp;|&nbsp;July 15, 2020 The&nbsp;Caisse de d\u00e9p\u00f4t et placement du Qu\u00e9bec is&nbsp;lending financing to Medicom Inc., a Quebec-based manufacturer and distributor of infection control products. The company, which also specializes in personal protective equipment,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}