Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO)
About Bio-Rad Laboratories (BIO)
Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. engages in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of a portfolio of instruments, systems, reagents, and consumables. It operates through the following segments: Life Science and Clinical Diagnostics. The Life Science segment includes development, manufacturing, and marketing of instruments, systems, reagents, and consumables used to separate, purify, characterize, and quantify biological materials. The Clinical Diagnostics segment focuses on designing, manufacturing, marketing, and support of diagnostic test systems, informatics solutions, test kits, and specialized quality controls for clinical laboratories in the global diagnostics market. The company was founded by David S. Schwartz and Alice N. Schwartz in 1952 and is headquartered in Hercules, CA.