Trinity Biotech Appoints Barclays Capital as Exclusive Financial Advisor to Advance Continuous Glucose Monitoring Technology Transformation Plan

DUBLIN and PORTLAND, Ore., March 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Trinity Biotech plc (Nasdaq: TRIB), a commercial-stage biotechnology company focused on human diagnostics and diabetes management solutions, including wearable biosensors, today announces the next stage in realizing its comprehensive transformation plan and development of its continuous glucose monitoring (“CGM”) technology with the appointment of Barclays Capital Inc. (“Barclays”) as its exclusive financial advisor to support its ongoing strategic realignment, reflecting the Company’s increased focus on its CGM technology as part of its broader transformation plan.

With substantial progress in developing its differentiated and innovative CGM and its significant market potential, Trinity Biotech’s board and management have determined that CGM technology and related data driven insights will be the Company's primary strategic focus moving forward.

The successful execution of Trinity Biotech’s comprehensive transformation plan is expected to drive near-term profitability improvements, creating potential opportunities to optimize its portfolio and support CGM-related growth. As part of this effort, Barclays is now actively assessing how the Company’s existing businesses can best align with this new strategic direction.

Speaking about the process, CEO & President John Gillard stated, “Over the past year we have focused on proving the technological and market feasibility of building a large scale, innovative global CGM business. Our strong pre-pivotal clinical trial data and the keen market interest for our more affordable, user-focused and sustainable CGM solution gives us confidence that this is a vast and compelling opportunity for Trinity Biotech and our investors. At the same time, our strong execution of the Company’s ambitious comprehensive transformation plan is poised to provide us with a portfolio of operating businesses with significantly improved financial prospects. Given this progress, now is the right time to explore how we can strategically allocate capital, optimize our balance sheet, and sharpen our focus on CGM growth.”

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About Trinity Biotech
Trinity Biotech is a commercial stage biotechnology company focused on diabetes management solutions and human diagnostics, including wearable biosensors. The Company develops, acquires, manufactures and markets diagnostic systems, including both reagents and instrumentation, for the point-of-care and clinical laboratory segments of the diagnostic market and has recently entered the wearable biosensor industry, with the acquisition of the biosensor assets of Waveform Technologies Inc. and intends to develop a range of biosensor devices and related services, starting with a continuous glucose monitoring product. Our products are used to detect infectious diseases and to quantify the level of Haemoglobin A1c and other chemistry parameters in serum, plasma and whole blood. Trinity Biotech sells direct in the United States and through a network of international distributors and strategic partners in over 75 countries worldwide. For further information, please see the Company's website: www.trinitybiotech.com .