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ACQUISITIONS
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
ACQUISITIONS  
ACQUISITIONS

NOTE 17 – ACQUISITIONS

On May 1, 2018, the Company announced it has acquired Reboul SAS (“Reboul”).  Further information about this transaction can be found in Note 19 – Subsequent Events.

In February 2017, the Company acquired a 20% minority investment in Kali Care, Inc. (“Kali Care”) for $5.0 million. Kali Care is a Silicon Valley-based technology company, which provides digital monitoring systems for ophthalmic medication. Kali Care’s sensing technology allows clinicians to collect real time compliance data and is a powerful tool for ophthalmologists in managing the care of their patients and represents an additional investment into connected devices for our Pharma applications.  This investment is being accounted for under the equity method of accounting from the date of acquisition.