Bio Rad Laboratories Inc (BIO) Earnings

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. engages in the development, manufacturing, and marketing of a portfolio of instruments, systems, reagents, and consumables. The company is headquartered in Hercules, California and currently employs 7,450 full-time employees. The firm offers a range of products and systems used to separate complex chemical and biological materials and to identify, analyze and purify their components. The company operates through two segments: Life Science and Clinical Diagnostics. The Life Science segment develops, manufactures, and markets instruments, systems, reagents, and consumables used for biological research, biopharmaceutical production processes, food testing regimes, and science education. Its Clinical Diagnostics segment designs, manufactures, markets and supports test systems, informatics systems, test kits and specialized quality controls that serve clinical laboratories in the global diagnostics market. These products are sold to hospital laboratories, diagnostic reference laboratories, transfusion laboratories, and physician office laboratories.