{"id":173226,"date":"2025-12-08T01:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/173226\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T01:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T01:46:06","slug":"malaysias-retail-pharmacy-boom-draws-billion-ringgit-bets-as-ipo-pipeline-builds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/173226\/","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia\u2019s retail pharmacy boom draws billion-ringgit bets as IPO pipeline builds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The catalyst \u2013 news that BIG Caring Group is weighing a blockbuster listing in Bursa Malaysia next year<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">[KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia\u2019s retail pharmacy sector is becoming a key dealmaking arena, as private equity firms, regional players and local healthcare chains scale up ahead of a potential wave of major healthcare-retail initial public offerings (IPOs).<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">The catalyst \u2013 news that <a class=\"text-verticals-btblue underline\" data-testid=\"article-annotation-link-component\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/international\/asean\/pharmaceutical-chain-big-caring-weighs-malaysia-ipo-next-year-rm20-billion-valuation-sources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BIG Caring Group<\/a> is weighing a blockbuster listing in Bursa Malaysia next year. The merged chain, formed through BIG Pharmacy\u2019s acquisition of 7-Eleven\u2019s Caring Pharmacy in July 2023, could seek a valuation of up to RM20 billion (S$6.3 billion) and raise as much as RM6 billion, Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Such a deal, if realised, would dwarf the RM5.2 billion raised in IPOs on Bursa Malaysia so far this year and instantly rank among the country\u2019s biggest listings in a decade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-lucida text-xl font-medium italic leading-normal -tracking-5% text-gray-850\">Decoding Asia newsletter: your guide to navigating Asia in a new global order. Sign up here to get Decoding Asia newsletter. Delivered to your inbox. Free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The catalyst \u2013 news that BIG Caring Group is weighing a blockbuster listing in Bursa Malaysia next year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-173226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}