AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Agilent Technologies Inc. is a global leader in life sciences, diagnostics, and applied markets, providing application-focused solutions for various industries. The company, incorporated in Delaware, has three business segments: life sciences and applied markets, diagnostics and genomics, and Agilent CrossLab. Agilent's life sciences and applied markets business offers instruments, software, and consumables for identifying, quantifying, and analyzing physical and biological properties of substances. The diagnostics and genomics business focuses on active pharmaceutical ingredients, reagents, instruments, software, and consumables for interrogate samples at the cellular and molecular level. Agilent's website is www.agilent.com, and its ticker symbol is A. Agilent's business strategy is to provide application-focused solutions to customers in various industries, including pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, CRO and CMO, academia and government, chemicals and advanced materials, food, environmental and forensics, and diagnostics and clinical markets. The company sells its products primarily through direct sales, electronic commerce, resellers, manufacturers' representatives, and distributors. Agilent employs approximately 18,100 people worldwide, with primary research and development and manufacturing sites in the US and other countries. The life sciences and applied markets business includes liquid chromatography systems, gas chromatography systems, mass spectrometry, spectroscopy, software and informatics, lab automation and robotics, vacuum technology, cell analysis, remarketed instruments, and chemistries and supplies. The diagnostics and genomics business includes genomics, nucleic acid contract manufacturing and research and development, pathology, companion diagnostics, reagent partnership, and biomolecular analysis. Agilent's competitors in the life sciences and applied markets arena include Danaher Corporation, PerkinElmer Inc., Shimadzu Corporation, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., and Waters Corporation. The company competes on the basis of product performance, reliability, support quality, applications expertise, global channel coverage, and price.