Danaher Corporation

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Type	Public
Traded as	NYSE: DHR S&P 500 Component
Industry	Conglomerate
Founded	1969
Headquarters	Washington, D.C., U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Steven M. Rales (Chairman of the Board) H. Lawrence Culp, Jr. (President), (CEO) & (Director)
Operating income	$ 1.869 billion (2008)
Net income	$ 1.317 billion (2008)
Total assets	$ 17.490 billion (2008)
Total equity	$ 9.808 billion (2008)
Employees	50,300 (July 2009)
Divisions	List of divisions
Website	www.danaher.com

The Danaher Corporation is a large global company headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States. Its products are concentrated in the fields of design, manufacture, and marketing of industrial and consumer products.

It operates in four segments: Professional Instrumentation, Medical Technologies, Industrial Technologies, and Tools & Components.

History [link]

The company was organized in 1969. It was formerly known as DMG, Inc. and changed its name to Diversified Mortgage Investors, Inc. in 1978, then to Danaher Corporation in 1984.

The company is named for the Danaher River river in Montana where the Rales Brothers went fishing. Danaher Motion is the US Flagship of Danaher Corporation's Industrial Technologies branch with over $1 billion in sales [1]

UK based West Instruments provides control and measurement instrumentation solutions and services for the global industrial and process markets. [2]

German Instrumentation manufacturer PMA was added to the Industrial Controls Group in 2005 and enhances the range of control and measurement instrumentation solutions.[3]

The Danaher Motion group acquired Kollmorgen, of Radford, Virginia. Danaher Motion can supply some replacement parts for Kollmorgen servo motors through its distribution network. Kollmorgen servo motors are sometimes found on machine tools made by Ingersoll Milling Machine Company.

2005 - July: Danaher Announces Definitive Agreement To Acquire Leica Microsystems The company manufactures a broad range of products for numerous applications requiring microscopic imaging, measurement and analysis. It also offers system solutions in the areas of Life Science including biotechnology and medicine, as well as the science of raw materials and industrial quality assurance.

In early 2007 Danaher acquired Australian Pathology Instrument and Engineering company Vision Systems Limited. [4] Also in 2007, Danaher made its largest acquisition to date, the purchase of Tektronix, Inc. for 2.85 billion USD. [5]

In 2009 Danaher purchased the Analytical Technologies business unit of Canadian Life Sciences company MDS, Inc. for $650 million USD. In a separate, but related transaction, Danaher agreed with Life Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: LIFE) to acquire the remaining 50% ownership position in AB SCIEX for $450 million USD, leaving Danaher as outright owner of AB SCIEX and Molecular Devices. The aggregate purchase price for the combined transactions is $1.1 billion.[6]

In 2011 Danaher entered into a definitive merger agreement with Beckman Coulter^[1] and sold Accu-sort to Datalogic.

Divisions [link]

• Test & Measurement
  • Arbor Networks
  • Fluke
    • Comark
    • Datapak
    • DH Instruments
    • Hart Scientific
    • Ircom
    • Raytek
    • Visual Network Systems Ltd
  • Fluke Networks
  • Keithley Instruments
  • Tektronix
  • Tektronix Communications
• Environmental
  • ChemTreat
  • Gilbarco Veeder-Root
    • Gasboy
    • Red Jacket
    • Veeder-Root
  • Hach
    • Environmental Test Systems
    • GLI
    • HACH LANGE
    • HIAC
    • Polymetron
    • Hydrolab
    • Lachat Instruments
    • Marsh-McBirney
    • MET ONE
    • Orbisphere
    • Radiometer Analytical
  • Trojan Technologies
• Dental
  • DEXIS
  • Gendex
  • KaVo
  • Kerr
  • Ormco
  • Pelton & Crane
  • PaloDEx
    • Instrumentarium Dental
    • Soredex
  • Total Care
• Life Sciences & Diagnostics
  • AB Sciex
  • Beckman Coulter
  • Leica Microsystems
  • Molecular Devices
  • Radiometer
• Industrial Technologies
  • Danaher Motion
    • Dover
    • Kollmorgen
      • Calzoni
    • Portescap
    • Thomson
  • Danaher Specialty Products
    • Eagle-Signal
    • Joslyn Clark
    • Namco
    • Superior Electric
    • Thomson Nyliner
    • Veeder-Root (Counters)
  • EskoArtwork
  • Linx Printing Technologies
  • Qualitrol
  • Videojet
  • X-Rite
• Apex Tool Group (50%)

Other Brands

• ALLTEC
• Amprobe
• Andeson Negele
  • Anderson Instrument
  • Negele Messtechnik
• Dolan Jenner
• Dynapar
  • Northstar
  • Harowe
• Hengstler
• ELE
• Gems Sensors & Controls
• G&L Motion Control, Inc
• Hengstler
• Hennessy Industries
• Imaging Sciences International
• Invetech
• Jacobs Vehicle Systems
• Matco Tools
• McCrometer
• Qualitrol
  • Iris Power
• Robin Electronics
• Setra
• SybronEndo
• Venture Measurement
  • Bindicator
  • Kistler-Morse
  • Levelite
  • Niagara Meters
• West Control Solutions
  • CAL Controls
  • Partlow
  • PMA
  • West Instruments

References [link]