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4300 N. Harbor Boulevard, P.O. Box 3100 Fullerton, CA 92834-3100 USA phone:(800) 742-2345 fax:(800) 232-3828
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| www.beckmancoulter.com
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| Research Sector |
Medical Devices & Tech |
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| Summary Description |
| Biomedical testing instrument systems |
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| Management |
| Scott Garrett, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer; Richard Creager, Group Vice President, High Sensitivity Testing Group; Scott Atkin, Group Vice President, Chemistry, Discovery and Automation Business Group; Pam Miller, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain Management; Charlie Slacik, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer |
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| Keywords |
| electrochemistry, flow cytometry, microplate, proteomeics, spectrophotometry |
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| Description |
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Beckman Coulter, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of biomedical testing instrument systems, tests and supplies that simplify and automate laboratory processes. Spanning the biomedical testing continuum—from pioneering medical research and clinical trials to laboratory diagnostics and point-of-care testing—Beckman Coulter's 200,000 installed systems provide essential biomedical information to enhance health care around the world. The company, based in Fullerton, Calif., reported 2007 annual sales of $2.76 billion with more than 78 percent of this amount generated by recurring revenue from supplies, test kits and services. |
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| Products / Services |
The products Beckman offering include clinical laboratory, disease management and primary care, general biomedical research, cell analysis, immunology, protein research, lab automation, genetic analysis and nucleic acid testing, drug discovery.
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| Technology / Differentiation |
| Flow Cytometry, hematology, hemastasis, immunoanalysis, immunohistochemistry. |
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| Market / Customers |
A wide variety of lab tools and diagnostics.
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