Becton, Dickinson and Company specializes in the development, manufacturing and marketing of medical and diagnostic equipment and materials. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- medical equipment (70.5%): surgical instruments, urological care products, pharmaceutical systems, etc.;
- diagnostic materials (22.2%): automated systems for blood testing, mycobacteria detection, and molecular biology, medical biology devices, etc.;
- clinical research and development tools (7.3%): tools for discovering drugs and vaccines, studying genes, culturing cells, and manipulating liquids, instruments for sorting and analyzing cells, monoclonal antibodies, etc.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (56.8%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (21.4%), Asia (16.2%) and other (5.6%).
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