Danaher Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets professional, medical, industrial, and commercial products and services worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Life Sciences, Diagnostics, and Environmental & Applied Solutions. The Life Sciences segment provides mass spectrometers, flow cytometry, genomics, lab automation, centrifugation, particle counting and characterization, microscopes, genomics consumables, and gene and cell therapy offerings, as well as bioprocess technologies, consumables, services, and filtration, separation, and purification technologies to pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical, food and beverage, medical, and life sciences companies, as well as universities, medical schools, research institutions, and various industrial manufacturers. The Diagnostics segment provides chemistry, immunoassay, microbiology, and automation systems, along with hematology, molecular, acute care, and pathology diagnostics products, including clinical instruments, reagents, consumables, software, and services for hospitals, physicians' offices, reference laboratories, and other critical care settings. The Environmental & Applied Solutions segment offers instrumentation, consumables, software, services, and disinfection systems to analyze, treat, and manage ultra-pure, potable, industrial, waste, ground, source, and ocean water in residential, commercial, industrial, and natural resource applications, as well as instruments, software, services, and consumables for color and appearance management, packaging design and quality management, packaging converting, printing, marking, coding, and traceability applications for consumer, pharmaceutical, and industrial products. The company was formerly known as Diversified Mortgage Investors, Inc. and changed its name to Danaher Corporation in 1984. Danaher Corporation was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Washington, the District of Columbia.
| Symbol | DHR |
|---|---|
| Exchange | NYSE |
| Sector | Healthcare |
| Industry | Medical - Diagnostics & Research |
| CEO | Rainer Blair |
| Employees | 61000 |
| Headquarters | Washington, DC, US |
| IPO | 1978-12-29 |
| Website | www.danaher.com |