Primary Health Care boss Malcolm Parmenter remains confident he can turn the fortunes of the struggling medical centre business, while also revealing that the company is mulling a major rebranding that may result in a name change.
The $1.9 billion company on Friday posted a 5 per cent increase in underlying net profit for the December half after three years of contraction, but its medical centres business remains a headache and saw earnings plunge.
“We are a turnaround story with medical centres, but I’m confident that we can make something out of that business,” Dr Parmenter told AFR Weekend.
“There is great opportunity in IVF, and our dental businesss has lots of opportunity to grow as we have not looked at the demands. W…
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