Our presence at this prestigious event allowed us to showcase our products, establish new partnerships, and strengthen relationships with our existing clients. We greatly appreciate all visitors who stopped by our stand and shared their feedback, experience, and valuable insights.

Together with our partners, we continuously strive to deliver high-quality and reliable solutions that help advance the standard of healthcare. Your trust and collaboration are both an inspiration and a commitment for us.

Thank you for your time, meaningful discussions, and the opportunity to connect. We look forward to further cooperation and future projects.

This November, we are pleased to invite you to meet us at MEDICA 2025 in Düsseldorf, the world’s leading medical trade fair. Over four days, thousands of exhibitors from 50 countries will gather in 17 halls – and BATIST Medical will proudly be among them.

As a traditional European manufacturer and distributor of medical devices – and a reliable contract manufacturer – we focus on quality, reliability and availability.

At MEDICA, we will showcase our solutions in:

• wound care (gauze, nonwoven products, cellulose wadding),
• surgical drapes and gowns,
• standard and customized procedural sets,
• examination and surgical gloves,
• injection equipment and many other products.

For more than 30 years we have been trusted across the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Portugal and Spain – and by clients worldwide – bringing Safety through Quality.

We look forward to meeting you at MEDICA 2025!

Looking for a reliable manufacturer and contract partner?
In our own facilities, we can produce tailored solutions to meet your needs.

Do you have products that could complement our portfolio and reach customers in our markets?
Let’s meet and explore the opportunities together!

Schedule a meeting with us today:
Fill out the online form at batist.com/en/medica-2025 and secure a time with our team.

MEDICA 2025, Düsseldorf
November 17–20, 2025
Booth 15E03, Hall 15

Visit us to discover how high-quality medical disposables and customized surgical sets can help grow your business.

More info: medica-tradefair.com

This November, we would be excited to meet you at the exposition booth of BATIST Medical at the international trade fair MEDICA 2022. Medica is the world’s largest medical sector trade fair, and Batist is its traditional exhibitor.

This year the trade fair will occur between November 14 and November 18, 2022, in Düsseldorf. Several thousand exhibitors from 50 countries will gather in 17 halls, including BATIST Medical.  We will be pleased to meet you at our booth No. L35 in Hall 5.

Tip: You can find the exact location on the interactive map (https://www.medica-tradefair.com/en/Interactive_hall_plan) and our business card https://www.medica-tradefair.com/vis/v1/en/exhibitors/medcom2022.2716754?oid=80396&lang=2&_query=Batist

As a traditional European international medical devices distributor and manufacturer, we primarily focus on the quality and availability of our products. Our portfolio includes wound care, including advanced wound care, such as gauze and non-woven dressings and cellulose wadding products. In addition, we produce and distribute surgical drapes, surgical and protective gowns, small universal and custom procedural sets, diagnostic and surgical gloves, injection equipment, and many others, not to mention our famous nano-mask. Meet us to know more!

And we haven’t said it yet – you can find us not only in Czechia but also in Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, in Portugal and Spain, and through our partners in Hungary and Romania. So we also export to our customers in many countries on every inhabited continent.

Would you like to meet us and find out what we can produce for you in our factory? Do you have products we could distribute to our customers in our markets? Then, feel free to visit us.

You can already book a meeting with us at Medica. Please fill out the online form at https://www.batist.com/en/medica-2022/, and we will start looking forward to meeting you there.

We look forward to further cooperation

Tomáš Mertlík
CEO

Firstly, we are introducing a new brand name for surgery supplies: the original brand “evercare” will be replaced by the new name “immunity”.

Our current motto is:

……what exactly describes the current situation.

Our priority is to offer the best quality to our customers and to make everyday life of the hospital professionals and our patients a little bit safer

Our factory and the raw materials in use guarantee the highest level of safety and quality.

Some modifications to even upgrade the quality level above the current one have been executed, such as  

• 3layer full surface of drapes for a better patient comfort
• improved main material colour increasing the work comfort of the operating staff (the darker colour of the drape reflects less light of the surgical lamp during the procedure).

Further information may be found in the catalogues at our website or dial our customer service.
An important element of our business strategy remains the state-of-the-art production facility at our headquarters in Červený Kostelec in the North of the Czech Republic. There, we produce first-class products such as individual sets, wound care, bandages and much more.

Sincerely,
Tomas Mertlik
President & CEO

What Wasn’t Heard in the Show

What has led you to decision to start a business?

One has to pay attention in order to exist. I didn’t want to start a business – I wanted to help people. My parents had a healthcare business. So I said that I’d join them. I help others while supporting myself. I give people jobs, I help treat and heal patients, and financially support my family. And if passion for a cause comes together with entrepreneurial spirit, a pretty nice business is often the result. Baťa would agree.

How did you start your business?

My parents started it. Back in 1991. When they came to the newly-established tax office to consult with them about VAT, no one really knew what they were talking about. They were tossed from desk to desk like a hot potato. I was thirteen at the time. Since then I’ve been part of the family firm.

What is the history of your company? What were some of the important moments in your company’s history?

My parents founded LINON in 1991 and BATIST in 1992. In 1998, we bought our own factory from the people to whom it was returned in restitution and began to renovate it. In 2011, they sold the business to the Swedish company OneMed, thereby resolving the children’s burning issue – the successorship. It’s not easy, you know, to pass something like this on to your children. How, when, who, what… I then worked for the Swedes as a managerial employee and the size of the company doubled. My sister inherited the factory from our parents – the Swedes weren’t interested in that. In 2018, I said I can’t take being a corporate rat any longer. So I broke my piggybank, went to the bank for a loan, and bought the company back from the Swedes. And I also bought the factory from my sister. And while I was at it, I bought our largest foreign distributor at the end of last year. By the end of 2018 we had sold the most products and therefore treated the most patients in the history of BATIST. And had the best results since 1991. And we haven’t even really gotten started yet.

What are some of the characteristics of your field?

It’s a very conservative field bound by laws and regulations. The barriers to entry are high. But it’s an area that helps to treat, to heal. It’s a good line of business to be in, karmically speaking. In addition, care is provided by educated people and I often meet with a high degree of altruism, unlike in other fields. It’s nice.

What is the hardest part of your business?

Good question. I can’t think of anything. Just that sometimes it goes a bit more slowly than I’d like.

How do you see your company’s future at the moment?

We’re linking product supply with service supply. Logistics, purchasing, IT, and more. We want to offer solutions, not products. Individual brands in the health sector are an anachronism. It’s about the function, not the brand. Also, the European market will become less regulated – right now it’s very fragmented, both in customer-supplier relations and in legislation. Today, BATIST has its own distribution companies in Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Portugal, and Spain. Once the market is freer, we’ll be right in there.

What do you consider to be your greatest business success, and on the other hand, what have you learned from?

Success? A Czech bought back – an originally – Czech company from a Swedish company, and buys other foreign companies. That’s proof that since the revolution, we haven’t just been standing in a corner waiting – exactly the opposite. Failure? That I didn’t do it sooner. It could have been much cheaper.

Did you have to sacrifice anything for your business?

No. It’s a game that I enjoy and that gives me fulfilment.

What drives you in your work?

Life is like a table that stands on four legs. Family, work, friends, and my own interests. None of those four legs can be longer or shorter than the others, otherwise the table won’t be stable.

To get a successful company founded by your parents back into your own hands surely cost not only a great deal of effort, but also a great deal financially. How did you manage to carry out such a demanding investment?

You’re right – buying a company back from a multinational group and bringing it back into the family couldn’t have taken place without a long-term loan from Komerční banka. During the negotiations, they not only offered excellent terms, but they were also very active in their approach and willing to do business.

What activities related to your business do you enjoy the most?

I enjoy helping people. I employ 350 people, of which 55 have disabilities. I help treat and heal patients. And I also love innovation. Sustainability – our vision is to completely eliminate the use of fossil fuels at BATIST by 2025. Or agile management – have you heard about unlimited vacation time? At BATIST, it already exists to a limited extent. Or artificial intelligence that can diagnose based on symptoms better than a top specialist. Simply because it can evaluate more similar cases in just a few seconds. Let’s improve the quality and reduce the costs of some diagnostics – we have too few doctors as it is.

Your story might be so inspiring for someone that he himself will want to start his own business. What advice would you give to such a person?

Study. And continuously educate yourself. Education pushes the boundaries of human possibility. Discover the passion within yourself. This can then easily be transformed into a proper business. Even money and profits can be passion, but for me it’s false motivation. Don’t be afraid to think big. Those who think big can create something truly significant. Nothing big ever comes from thinking small. Prepare to accept responsibility. It’s not for everyone. Acceptance of responsibility is, however, one of the few keys to personal freedom.

The content is a courtesy of Cesky k úspěchu –
http://www.cestykuspechu.cz/videa/17-serie/batist-medical

Docworld Portugal and Docworld Spain (“Docworld”) announces today its acquisition by BATIST Medical (“BATIST”), a pan-European supplier of medical products and services to the healthcare markets, which offers similar value proposition, and is Docworld cooperating partner for more than a decade.

As a part of the BATIST Medical Group, Docworld will benefit from the innovation power of an internationally exposed company in a fast-growing environment of public and private healthcare systems across Europe.

Docworld will accretive contribute to the top and bottom line growth of the consolidated businesses.

As an enlarged business, BATIST will apply best practices across the entire organization, thereby using its experience and know-how to increase patient-relevant outcomes and attract further growth.

The terms of the deal are subject of mutual confidentiality of both parties.

Continuing its legacy

The former Docworld owners remain in the business in leading functions, safeguarding the continuity of the leadership and prosperous future for the consolidated entity, its associates and their families.

About Docworld

Docworld is a partner for professionals in the health sector – including dental, veterinary, pharmacy, nursing and aesthetics. Offering medical supplies, surgical instruments and disposables, Wound care, gloves, surgical syringes & needles and Non-sterile apparel. Between 2011 to 2017, Docworld turnover grew more than 8 times consequently as a result of the growing influence and the entry into the reference economic agents of the national and international health sector. Turnover close to m€9 has been recorded for the FY 2018.

About BATIST Medical

BATIST Medical is the leading medical supplies distributor in Central Europe serving customers in the healthcare industry with reliable and efficient solutions.Portfolio is focused on traditional products such as wound care, bandages, cellulose wadding, hygiene product, paper and plastic protection, as well asdisposable surgery products or disinfection. BATIST Medical recently kicked off the enhancement of its portfolio of high-end value proposition in products and services in areas such as surface disinfection and occupational skin care.

BATIST Medical has operations in 20 countries either thru local offices or intermediaries, and recorded a consolidated turnover of m€23 in 2018. The head-office is located in Czech Republic. The acquisition contributes to “Vision 2022” goals of becoming a pan-European company of preferred choice for its customers.

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Contact persons

BATIST Medical

Pavel Mikyska, Business Development Manager & Communication Officer

pavel.mikyska@batist.com

Docworld

Pedro Amaral, Managing Director

p.amaral@docworld.pt

Jose Luis Rebelo, Managing Director

rebelo@docworld.pt