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Last Updated: 2026
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Bio-Rad Laboratories

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Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. manufactures, and distributes life science research and clinical diagnostic products in the United States, Europe, Asia, Canada, and Latin America. The company operates through Life Science and Clinical Diagnostics segments. The Life Science segment develops, manufactures, and markets a range of reagents, apparatus, and laboratory instruments that are used in research techniques, biopharmaceutical production processes, and food testing regimes. It focuses on selected segments of the life sciences market in proteomics, genomics, biopharmaceutical production, cellular biology, and food safety. This segment serves universities and medical schools, industrial research organizations, government agencies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, biotechnology researchers, food producers, and food testing laboratories. The Clinical Diagnostics segment designs, manufactures, sells, and supports test systems, informatics systems, test kits, and specialized quality controls for clinical laboratories in the diagnostics market. This segment offers reagents, instruments, and software, which address specific niches within the in vitro diagnostics test market. It sells its products to reference laboratories, hospital laboratories, state newborn screening facilities, physicians' office laboratories, and transfusion laboratories. In addition, the company offers products and systems to separate complex chemical and biological materials, as well as to identify, analyze, and purify components. The company offers its products through its direct sales force, as well as through distributors, agents, brokers, and resellers. Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. was founded in 1952 and is headquartered in Hercules, California.
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Bio-Rad Laboratories was founded in 1952 by David Schwartz and his wife Alice, both recent graduates of the University of California, Berkeley. In 1976, Bio-Rad acquired Environmental Chemical Specialties , a producer of human control serum.In 2011, Bio-Rad acquired a new technology, droplet digital PCR. Droplet digital PCR allows scientists to distinguish rare sequences in tumors and precisely measure copy number variation.In January 2013, Bio-Rad purchased AbD Serotec, a division of MorphoSys AG. This added Serotec’s more than 15,000 antibodies, kits, and accessories to Bio-Rad’s portfolio of research and clinical diagnostic products.In 2016, the company had direct distribution channels in over 35 countries outside the United States through subsidiaries whose focus is sales, customer service and product distribution. In some locations outside and inside these 35 countries, sales efforts were supplemented by distributors and agents.In 2017, Bio-Rad acquired RainDance Technologies, a droplet-based PCR systems manufacturer.In March 2021, Bio-Rad announced a partnership with Roche.

Vickers Instruments

In 1989, Bio-Rad purchased the British instrument-making firm, Vickers , apart from their defense products, which were sold to British Aerospace. This company had been known until 1963 as Cooke, Troughton & Simms. Cooke, Troughton & Simms was formed in 1922 by the merging of T. Cooke & Sons, a York-based instrument maker founded in 1837 by the self-taught schoolmaster Thomas Cooke, and the London instrument-maker, Troughton & Simms founded in 1828 by Edward Troughton who began his apprenticeship in 1773.

Bioradiations

Bioradiations is an online magazine created by Bio-Rad that offers researchers case studies, whitepapers, tips, techniques, and topics related to Bio-Rad products and services. Bioradiations began as a print magazine that was launched in 1965 and was printed until 2011 and replaced with the online publication.

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To provide useful, high-quality products and services that advance scientific discovery and improve healthcare.
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Our vision is to be the preeminent global provider of products, services and training to the life science research and clinical diagnostic markets including government and academic customers.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio-Rad_Laboratories

https://in.investing.com/equities/bio-rad-laboratories-inc

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/BIO/profile?p=BIO

https://www.comparably.com/companies/bio-rad-laboratories/mission

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/bio-rad-laboratories

https://sec.report/CIK/0000012208

https://companiesmarketcap.com/

https://www.bio-rad.com

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Leadership team
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Mr. Norman D. Schwartz (Chairman, CEO & Pres)
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Mr. Ilan Daskal (Exec. VP & CFO)
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Dr. Andrew J. Last Ph.D. (Exec. VP & COO)
Products / Services
Biotechnology, Health Care, Health Diagnostics
Number of Employees
1,000 - 20,000
Address
Hercules, California, United States
Established
1952-01-01
Company Registration
SEC CIK number: 0000012208
Revenue
$1B+
Website
https://www.bio-rad.com
Social Media
linkedin
Last Updated: 2026
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