Harvard Bioscience, Inc. (NASDAQ GM:HBIO) 84 October Hill Road Holliston, MA 01746 Phone: (508) 893-8999 Fax: (508) 429-5732 http://www.harvardbioscience.com
Harvard Bioscience, Inc. is a Delaware corporation. The Company is a developer, manufacturer and marketer of a specialized products, mainly apparatus and scientific instruments, used to advance life science research at pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, universities and government laboratories. It has sales and manufacturing operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain and sales facilities in France and Canada. It sells its products to thousands of researchers in over 100 countries mainly through its 850 page catalog (and various other specialty catalogs), its website, through distributors, including GE Healthcare, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. and VWR, and via its field sales organization. Today, its broad product range is generally targeted towards two major application areas: ADMET testing and molecular biology and liquid handling. ADMET Testing - The ADMET testing identifies compounds that have toxic side effects or undesirable physiological or pharmacological properties. It has products that its customers use to help their researchers conduct better experiments on cells, tissues, organs and animals. The Company mainly sells these products under the Harvard Apparatus, BTX, KD Scientific, Hugo Sachs Elektronik, Panlab and Warner Instruments brand names. Molecular Biology and Liquid Handling - It mainly sells these products through its distributors, including GE Healthcare, under their brand names. These products are mainly scientific instruments such as spectrophotometers and plate readers that analyze light to detect and quantify molecular and cellular processes or apparatus such as gel electrophoresis units. The Company's end-user customers are mainly research scientists at pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, universities and government laboratories, including the U.S. National Institutes of Health, or NIH. The Company's academic customers have included major colleges and universities such as Baylor College, Cambridge University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University and the University of Texas - MD Anderson Center. The Company's pharmaceutical and biotechnological customers have included pharmaceutical companies and research laboratories such as Amgen, Inc., AstraZeneca plc, Genentech, Inc. and Johnson & Johnson. The Company is not subject to direct governmental regulation other than the laws and regulations generally applicable to businesses in the domestic and foreign jurisdictions in which it operates.
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