Instrument Business Outlook

Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) recorded sales of more than $470 million in 2003. Many major instrument vendors offer...

Foster City, CA 8/23/04--Michael Hunkapiller, Ph.D., Applera senior vice president and president of Applied Biosystems, has retired effective...

Palo Alto and Redwood City, CA 8/23/04--Agilent Technologies has entered into an agreement to acquire Silicon Genetics, a...

Hercules, CA 8/18/04--Bio-Rad has purchased MJ Research parent company, MJ Geneworks, for approximately $32 million in cash (see...

Little Chalfont, UK 8/17/04; Fairfield, CT 8/24/04--GE Healthcare has appointed Joel McComb as president of GE Bio-Sciences' Discovery...

Bonn, Germany 8/19/04--The German Bundeskartellamt (cartel office) has cleared GE's acquisition of InVision Technologies (see IBO 3/15/04). However,...

In the July 31, 2004 issue, the third column of the table accompanying the article "The Revised IBO...

August proved to be a stagnant period for all major US stock indexes, with concerns over oil prices...

* SP Industries, which sells products under the Wilmad-LabGlass, HotPack/Heinicke, Virtis and Hull brands, announced in May that...

It should come as little surprise that many of the largest booths at the exhibition for this year's...

* In order to focus on its Pressure Cycling Technology (PCT) (see IBO 3/31/04), Boston Biomedica sold the...

Most major analytical instrument companies experienced robust growth in the second quarter of calendar year 2004 as the...

Agilent Technologies' Life Sciences and Chemical Analysis (LSCA) Group, accounting for 17.2% of Agilent's sales, reported a 10.6%...

Applied Biosystems announced fiscal fourth quarter revenue of $460.5 million, a 6.4% increase over 2003 fourth quarter sales....

During the second quarter, Bruker BioSciences reported a 5.2% gain in revenue to $64.1 million, but only 1%...

Dionex reported fiscal fourth quarter sales of $69.3 million, a 21.3% gain over a year ago. Operating income...

PerkinElmer reported a 9.7% increase in second quarter sales to $412.6 million, with operating profit excluding one-time charges...

Thermo Electron announced second quarter sales of $525.3 million, a 12.4% gain over the same period a year...

Varian reported that fiscal third quarter sales grew 13.3% to $236.7 million, with adjusted operating profits up 28.6%...

Waters reported second quarter revenue growth of 12.4% to $260.5 million, consisting of 9% organic growth and 3%...