The group's principal activities are to design, manufacture and market scientific instrumentation for use in clinical and analytical laboratories and in process monitoring industry. The group's operations are conducted through three operating subsidiaries located in the Netherlands and Australia. The group's dutch subsidiary, vital scientific nv designs and manufactures scientific instrumentation marketed worldwide through distributors and strategic partnerships. Novachem bv also a dutch subsidiary, develops and markets process monitoring technology for petrochemical and environmental applications. The group's australian subsidiary, vital diagnostics pty ltd., distributes diagnostic instruments and assays in the south pacific. On 29-Apr-2003, it acquired group practice services incorporated and landmark scientific inc.
