WorldOne

For July, 2012 the headquarters is placed in New York. Besides the company has 16 representations in North and South America, Europe and to the Pacific region of Asia. WorldOne provides to clients online and offline access to professionals in the field of medicine more than in 80 countries.

WorldOne is the global world network including 1.7 million certified professionals who in 2011 carried out nearly half a million online of researches, having answered more than 20 million questions.

History

In 2002 the company began the activity

On July 19, 2012 the WorldOne company announced acquisition of Sermo.com, the largest American online of community of doctors. In six years from the date of the basis of Sermo.com integrated 130,000 doctors. Among her numerous clients 8 of 10 largest pharmaceutical companies of the world.

"Sermo.com is quite expected purchase for one of world leaders in the field of researches in medicine of WorldOne which continues a trend on consolidation of social networks for doctors within the largest players of the market of marketing researches, - the founder and the CEO of the Russian social network for doctors "The doctor at work" Stanislav Sazhin comments. - It is no secret that leaders of the markets of medical networks in the leading economies of the world also belong or are affiliated with research companies. The palm in this relation until now was kept by M3 Inc. which belong the leader of the Japanese m3.com market and the largest network in Great Britain to doctors.net.uk. For WorldOne Sermo.com became an opportunity not only to increase the scope in the USA (from 220 to 350 thousand doctors in base), but also to overtake M3 on a scope in the world - now in the research WorldOne panel already of 1.85 million doctors. M3.com, after January consolidation with the American Epocrates panel, can offer the clients only 1.7 million medical accounts.

Transaction amount of WorldOne and Sermo.com does not reveal. However it is possible to assume that the first-ever social network for doctors of Sermo.com 10 years later after the start and $41 million investments from Legg Mason, Longworth Venture Partners, SoftBank Capital, was hardly estimated less than at $100 million. Additional confirmation of it is presumable total revenue. It is known that the public company M3.com earns up to $150 for one doctor a year (a source - Google Finance). At the same time, the Russian leader of doktornarabote.ru can brag only $5 for the doctor a year (a source - Izvestia). Even if Sermo.com has revenue in $100 from the doctor in a year, its total sales approach $15 million a year. M3.com is estimated at the exchange at 9 annual revenues, by analogy estimated capitalization of Sermo.com - $135 million".