Sweden’s Doro AB announced today that it is dividing itself into two companies. Doro Phones will continue to be known as Doro. Doro Care will adopt a new name, Careium. This will involve a formal redistribution of shares to current shareholders. The plan is that Careium will be listed on Nasdaq First North Growth Market for Nordic small to mid-sized companies early in December 2021. The actual distribution will be disclosed at an Extraordinary General Meeting on 22 November.
According to Doro’s release on the corporate change, this started in 2020 with the separation of the phone and care business lines. Doro’s board of directors (BOD) believes that the now-former Doro Care “has now achieved the right conditions to act independently and develop outside Doro. A distribution and listing of Careium’s shares is considered to be able to contribute to Careium being able to continue to develop its business model and offering.”
Careium’s logo is live–but not its website, which has but a discreet notice that it is under construction. There is a link to Doro Care in the UK only highlighting their three companies: Centra, Eldercare, and Welbeing–though what is not stated is the future of these three trade names. For their debut day, a standard marketing procedure (SMP) would be to go live with a home page containing the brand name change statement here. Another mystery: why the Careium website links only to the UK, and not to the websites of all the countries where Doro Care operates: Germany, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Spain.
And speaking of trade names….Careium will have difficulty using that name if their business development eventually includes the US, because there is a small home care company in Illinois called Careium Home Health which may, or may not, have protected that name.
What do you think of the new name? Does it sound like something out of the Roman Empire, or is it a good choice? (It’s better than Facebook’s new moniker of Meta-whatever)
Hat tip to Adrian Scaife, head of collaboration and marketing at Alcuris.
Most Recent Comments