Business Summary

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. manufactures and supplies the life science research, healthcare, analytical chemistry and other markets with a range of products and systems used to separate chemical and biological materials and to identify, analyze and purify their components. Its segments include Life Science and Clinical Diagnostics. Its Life Science segment markets and develops, manufactures and markets approximately 9,000 reagents, apparatus and laboratory instruments that serve a global customer base. Its products are used in research techniques, biopharmaceutical production processes and food testing regimes. Its Clinical Diagnostics segment designs, manufactures, sells and supports test systems, informatics systems, test kits and specialized quality controls that serve clinical laboratories in the global diagnostics market. It supplies approximately 3,000 different products that cover over 300 clinical diagnostic tests to the in vitro diagnostics (IVD) test market.