Company's move pays fast dividends

A move to downtown Tampa from north Hillsborough County has paid off for Synergy Health, a British firm that provides sterile surgical instruments for hospitals worldwide.

The firm moved its Americas headquarters from a facility on Race Track Road, north of Tampa Bay Downs, to the SunTrust Bank building on East Jackson Street last fall. About 100 employees made the move, and the company has since added 25 more people to the payroll. Synergy Health acquired Oldsmar-based SRI Surgical in 2012.

The surge in business post-move came quickly: Synergy officials, in a recent statement, announced $68 million in new contracts. The work includes a partnership with a 16-hospital health system that will create the largest center for instrument sterilization in the United States, the firm says.

Synergy, traded on the London Stock Exchange under the symbol SYR, had $380 million in revenues in fiscal 2014.

“Our Americas region grew by 24.8% during the 2013-2014 financial year, and as a company we are placing great emphasis on Tampa,” Synergy's Hospital Sterilization Services President Lance Cunningham says in the release.

Synergy provides sterilization services for hospitals in Asia, Europe and across the United States. The company has about 6,000 employees worldwide.