With the global cord blood banking industry maturing and consolidating over the past five years, it is more important than ever to be well-educated about cord blood industry trends. There are now fewer market players, because numerous small cord blood banks have either been acquired or gone out of business.
However, this era of maturation and consolidation has had as many benefits to surviving cord blood banks as drawbacks. On average, the remaining market participants are now larger, stronger, better capitalized, and storing larger quantities of cord blood and tissue units than when the market was more fragmented.