CoMED Health Aims To Provide Alternative Medicine Through Its Subsidiaries. CoMED Health (Pty) Ltd. was formed in 2009 as a holding company for a number of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM’s) companies and brands, including Natura Laboratory and Bioter Health. CoMED has a staff of more than 170 people based at its state-of-the-art CAM’s production facility in Waltloo, Pretoria. The company seeks to improve the wellness and well-being of its fellow beings as it values superior quality, excellence, integrity and wealth.
The company’s subsidiary Natura Laboratory is the number one leading brand in homoeopathy and herbals in South Africa and was founded more than 45 years ago. It comprises of two divisions – Natura Retail, offering 150 retail products, and Natura Professional, providing 500 professional division products and direct sales to more than 400 practitioners. Dr Michael Levien, founder of Natura Laboratories, was inspired to become a homoeopath through his own experience of overcoming life-threatening disease. As his colleagues began to call on him for advice in difficult cases, Dr Levien recognised that he was able to extend his vision for healing by serving the need for the manufacturing and distributing of good quality CAM’s. Since 1966, Natura Laboratory has been manufacturing and distributing homoeopathic and phytotherapeutic medicines in South Africa.
Another subsidiary of the company is Bioter Health, it was acquired in 2010 and offers 50 products supplied to most major CAM’s retailers. Under the Bioter Health portfolio there are some brands including URI-Kleer and Brain Child.
AMKA Group took a substantial shareholding in CoMED Health (Pty) Ltd in 2012. The company views this as a very positive development for CoMED Health, where in particular, the strategic fit will allow it to benefit all its customers and provide them with a much broader variety of Nutraceutical Supplements, Treatments and Homoeopathic Remedies. Here the considerable collective expertise and the substantial resources and synergies from the AMKA Group will be utilised to best effect in order to benefit all of its customers. To this end CoMED Health will synergise with its sister company in the Group, Nativa, in order to ensure a consistent improvement in service levels to its valued customers.
