FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) (NYSE: BDX), a leading global medical technology company, today reported quarterly revenues of $1.90 billion for the first fiscal quarter endedDecember 31, 2012, representing an increase of 3.7 percent from the prior-year period, or 5.2 percent on a foreign currency-neutral basis. “We are very pleased with our […]
PerkinElmer Announces Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter of 2012 Revenue growth of 6%; Organic revenue growth of 3% GAAP loss per share from continuing operations of $0.14; Adjusted earnings per share of $0.65 Full year revenue growth of 10%; Organic revenue growth of 5%; Adjusted operating profit margin increase of 100 basis points driving adjusted earnings […]
Renishaw, the global engineering technologies company, has taken full ownership of Measurement Devices Ltd (MDL), following the purchase of the remaining 34% shareholding for a cash payment of £4.5 million. The acquisition of the shares concludes an agreement reached in 2010, at which time Renishaw purchased an initial 29% stake in MDL, a UK-based business […]
Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR) announced results for the fourth quarter and full year 2012. All financial metrics in this release reflect only the Company’s continuing operations unless otherwise noted. Net earnings for the quarter ended December 31, 2012 were $630.4 million, or $0.89 per share on a diluted basis, a 12.5% increase over diluted net earnings per share of $0.79 for the fourth […]
Roper Industries, Inc. (NYSE: ROP), a diversified growth company, reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2012. In Q4, GAAP revenue increased 10% to $810 million and non-GAAP revenue, which excludes a fair value adjustment to acquired deferred revenue, was $816 million. GAAP operating margin increased 250 basis points to 27.8%, while non-GAAP operating […]
Halma plc, the leading safety, health and environmental technology group announces the completion on 23 January 2013 of the acquisition of Thinketron Precision Equipment Company Limited (‘TPE’) based in Hong Kong and its subsidiaries Baoding Longer Precision Pump Co., Ltd (‘Longer Pump’) based in China and Langer Instruments Corporation (‘LIC’) based in the USA. Longer […]
Leica to Acquire Aperio Leica Biosystems announced yesterday that an affiliate has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Aperio, a leading provider of ePathology solutions. Aperio will be integrated into Leica Biosystems, a leader in anatomical pathology solutions and which is itself a part of the Danaher Group of companies. Together, the two companies […]
“Merck reported solid second-quarter results due to healthy demand in all our businesses, tight cost management, and favorable currency exchange rates,” said Karl-Ludwig Kley, Chairman of the Executive Board of Merck earlier today. “The financials show that we are making good progress in strengthening Merck for the future.” Group revenues for Q2 were €2.852 billion, […]
Robert Friel, Chairman and CEO of Perkin Elmer announced today that he was very pleased with the “strong performance in the second quarter.” Adjusted revenues for the quarter rose by 10% from $485.3m last year to $532.3m this year. The additional $47m of revenue came mainly from their Human Health business which added $41.3m of […]
Veeco Instruments Inc., a manufacturer of process equipment used in the manufacture of LED’s, hard drives and wireless chips had predicted a difficult year as they expected demand for consumer goods such as PC’s and TV’s to be down on the previous year, therefore delaying their customers purchase of capex equipment. Revenue for Q2 was […]
Waters Corp. has broken ground at what will become their new HQ for Mass Spectrometry 3 miles South of Manchester Airport. The new facility will be purpose built and is designed to accelerate innovation while combining a world class customer demonstration facility with advanced R&D laboratories. The new building is expected to be complete in […]
FTSE 250 company, Oxford Instruments plc has today announced preliminary results for the year ending 31 March 2012. The company reported record performance across all business sectors and strong organic growth in all territories despite continued economic uncertainty particularly in Europe. Revenues grew 28.6% to £337.3m with an adjusted pre-tax profit of £42.0m up 60.3% […]