BusinessWeek Rankings BusinessWeek 50 BusinessWeek 50 2005 #43 Analysts' Recommendation: Buy 30 Days Ago: Buy Analysts' Target: $93 Analysts' Targets Deutsche Bank Securities $90 Neutral Thursday, February 07, 2008 UBS Securities $95 Hold Wednesday, January 16, 2008 Danaher Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets professional, medical, industrial, and consumer products. It operates through four segments: Professional Instrumentation, Medical Technologies, Industrial Technologies, and Tools and Components. The Professional Instrumentation segment produces and sells professional electronic test tools and calibration equipment; water quality instrumentation and consumables, and ultraviolet disinfection systems; industrial water treatment solutions; and retail/commercial petroleum products and services, including dispensers, payment systems, underground storage tank leak detection, and vapor recovery systems. The Medical Technologies segment offers acute care diagnostic instruments; high-precision optical systems for the analysis of microstructures; automated specimen preparation instruments; and pathology diagnostic tests, including cancer diagnostics and a range of products used by dental professionals. The Industrial Technologies segment manufactures products and sub-systems incorporated by customers and systems integrators into production and packaging lines, and by original equipment manufacturers into various end-products and systems. It offers product identification equipment and consumables; motion, position, speed, temperature, level instruments, and sensing devices; liquid flow and quality measuring devices; aerospace safety devices and defense articles; and electronic and mechanical counting and controlling devices. The Tools and Components segment produces general purpose and specialty mechanics’ hand tools, as well as toolboxes and storage devices, diesel engine retarders, wheel service equipment, and drill chucks. Danaher sells its products primarily in North America, Europe, and Asia. The company, formerly known as DMG, Inc., was founded in 1969. It changed its name to Diversified Mortgage Investors, Inc. in 1978 and to Danaher Corporation in 1984. Danaher is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.
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