San Diego, CA 11/11/13—Illumina has named Francis deSouza president. He will begin his position in December. Mr. deSouze currently serves as president of Products & Services at Symantec.
Company Announcements In August, Agilent Technologies gave an Agilent Thought Leader Award to Dr. Emmanuel Barillot, director of Bioinformatics and Systems IT at the Institute Curie in Paris, in recognition of his development of user friendly, Web-based bioinformatics tools for systems toxicology. Agilent Technologies opened in August the $25 million Spectroscopy Technology Innovation Center in […]
Company Announcements Roche Diagnostics’ second quarter sales of qPCR and NAP (nucleic acid purification) Systems increased 6%. Fiscal first quarter sales ending June 30 for Hitachi High-Technologies Science and Medical Systems (SMS) fell 18.0% to ¥29,100 million ($294.5 million) to account for 22% of revenues (see IBO 7/31/13). Biotechnology, Medical and Electron Microscopes declined 26.2%, […]
Washington, DC 8/20/13; San Diego, CA 9/23/13—Sequenom has announced it is reviewing potential strategic alternatives for its Genetic Analysis business. In addition, last month, the company announced in an SEC filing a cost reduction effort that includes the termination of approximately 75 employees. The company expects to record $10 million in compensation-related expenses in future […]
Reinach, Switzerland 9/27/13—Endress+Hauser, a supplier of industrial measurement and automation equipment, has announced that, following its purchase of 47% of the shares of publicly held German analytical instrument firm Analytik Jena, it is preparing an offer to shareholders to acquire the remaining shares. The company plans to offer €13.75 ($18.57 = €0.74 = $1) per […]
Major changes at the top analytical instrument companies continue to unfold. This month, Agilent Technologies, the second-largest analytical and life science instrument company (see IBO 4/15/13), announced that it will spin off its Electronic Measurement Group (EM), transforming it into a company dedicated to laboratory instrumentation. This follows the April announcement of the acquisition of […]
Company Announcements Teledyne Technologies promoted Al Pichelli, president and CEO of the Instrumentation, and Aerospace and Defense Electronics segments, to executive vice president. In July, Thermo Fisher Scientific established the China Innovation Center in Shanghai. The $9.5 million Center is expected to add 200–300 engineers over the next two to three years. The Center includes […]
Washington, DC 9/6/13—In its second quarter SEC filing, Agilent Technologies disclosed that it is investigating whether certain employees may have violated its Standards of Business Conduct and other policies in relation to the sale of products through third-party intermediaries in China. The investigation includes a review of compliance by Agilent employees with regard to the […]
Holliston, MA 8/27/13—Harvard Bioscience has hired Jeffrey A. Duchemin as CEO. He replaces President David Green, who has served as interim CEO since May (see IBO 7/15/13). Most recently, Mr. Duchemin served as Global Business director for Corning Life Sciences and spent 16 years with Becton Dickinson. “Mr. Duchemin is a proven global executive with […]
Milford, MA 8/27/13—Waters Chairman and CEO Douglas A. Berthiaume has announced his intention to retire as CEO within the next 24 months. Mr. Berthiaume was named president and CEO in 1994. The Board of Directors has appointed a Succession Planning Committee that will consider both internal and external candidates. “Our future is bright, our team […]
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