biotechnology founded pasadena california 1935 as national technical laboratories founder arnold o. beckman headquarters brea california united states key people arnd kaldowski president diagnostics jennifer honeycutt president life sciences products biomek platforms synchron au analyzers iris immunochemistry system veris dxi immunoassay instruments dxc chemistry instruments dxh hematology instruments hemoccult ceq 2000 dna analysis system flow cytometers ultracentrifuge laboratory centrifuge revenue us 3.66 b fy 2010 1 operating income us 405m fy 2010 1 net income us 231m fy 2010 1 total assets us 4.88 b fy 2010 2 total equity us 2.13 b fy 2010 2 number of employees 10 000 2014 worldwide parent danaher corporation website www.beckmancoulter.com beckman coulter headquarters in brea a large laboratory centrifuge from beckman . beckman coulter inc. is an american company that makes biomedical laboratory instruments . founded by caltech professor arnold o. beckman in 1935 as national technical laboratories to commercialize a ph meter that he had invented the company eventually grew to employ over 10 000 people with 2.4 billion in annual sales by 2004 . its current headquarters are in brea california . contents 1 history 2 executive management 3 locations 4 references 5 external links history edit in the 1940s beckman changed the name to arnold o. beckman inc. to sell oxygen analyzers the helipot precision potentiometer and spectrophotometers . in the 1950s the company name changed to beckman instruments inc. . in 1954 beckman instruments acquired ultracentrifuge maker spinco specialized instruments corp. . the spinco division went on to design and manufacture a broad range of laboratory centrifuges . 3 in 1955 beckman established the seminal shockley semiconductor laboratory as a division of beckman instruments to begin commercializing the semiconductor transistor technology invented by caltech alumnus william shockley . because shockley s aging mother lived in palo alto california the shockley laboratory was established in nearby mountain view california and thus silicon valley was born . in 1961 beckman acquired offner electronics a company founded by inventor franklin f. offner . in 1982 the company merged into smithkline to form smithkline beckman with arnold beckman as vice chairman but regained its independence in 1989 after smithkline merged with beecham group to form smithkline beecham now part of glaxosmithkline . in 1995 the company acquired hybritech inc. from eli lilly . in 1996 the company acquired the sanofi portion of sanofi pasteur diagnostics . in 1998 the company acquired coulter corporation a company founded by wallace h. coulter the inventor of the coulter counter . beckman thereafter changed its name to beckman coulter . in 2005 the company acquired diagnostic systems laboratories dsl based in webster texas . in 2006 the company acquired lumigen and agencourt bioscience . in 2007 the company acquired the flow cytometry business group of dako north america inc. in 2009 the company acquired lab based diagnostics business of olympus corporation japan . in 2009 the company moved its world headquarters from fullerton california to the newly renovated facility in brea california . 4 in february 2011 danaher announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement with beckman coulter . 5 on june 30 2011 danaher finalized the acquisition of beckman coulter . 6 on february 1 2015 the company finalized the acquisition of microscan from siemens healthcare 7 executive management edit senior vp quality and regulatory steven c de baca senior vp flow cytometry sakshi paul senior vp general counsel curtis brueske senior vp hr grace lee senior vp finance knud mueller president diagnostics arnd kaldowski locations edit besides their headquarters in brea california beckman coulter also has major locations in usa atlanta carlsbad california chaska minnesota danvers massachusetts florence kentucky indianapolis irving texas miami schaumburg illinois west sacramento california porterville california germany krefeld and munich germany italy cassina de pecchi mi ireland clare galway switzerland nyon japan mishima shizuoka ariake tokyo brazil alphaville s o paulo china suzhou jiangsu province pudong though each location specializes in distinct areas of the company many projects are worked on by teams in multiple locations working together remotely . references edit a b c beckman coulter bec annual sec income statement filing via wikinvest . a b beckman coulter bec annual sec balance sheet filing via wikinvest . arnold thackray and minor myers jr. ; foreword by james d. watson . 2000 . arnold o. beckman one hundred years of excellence . philadelphia pa . chemical heritage foundation . isbn 978 0 941901 23 9 . mueller mark july 5 2010 . beckman puts former hq site up for sale . orange county business journal . 33 27 4 . http www.danaher.com news news detail.asp key 399 http phx.corporate ir.net phoenix.zhtml c 82105 & p irol newsarticle & id 1581181 & highlight http www.emdt.co.uk daily buzz danaher group buys siemens microbiology unit external links edit beckman coulter yahoo beckman coulter inc. company profile beckman instrumentation collection finding aid 2010 othmer library chemical heritage foundation v t e danaher people steven m. rales subsidiaries beckman coulter esko fluke corporation gems sensors & controls gilbarco veeder root hach company jacobs vehicle systems keithley instruments leica microsystems matco tools molecular devices radiometer tektronix retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title beckman coulter & oldid 740072781 categories biotechnology companies of the united statescompanies based in orange county californiacompanies established in 1935danaher subsidiariessuperfund sites in california1935 establishments in california navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschespa olfran aisnederlands edit links this page was last modified on 18 september 2016 at 22 15 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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