Danaher Corp

DHR

Company Profile

  • Business description

    In 1984, Danaher’s founders transformed a real estate organization into an industrial-focused manufacturing company. Through a series of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures, Danaher now focuses primarily on manufacturing scientific instruments and consumables in the life science and diagnostic industries after the late 2023 divesititure of its environmental and applied solutions group, Veralto.

  • Contact

    2200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
    Suite 800W
    WashingtonDC20037-1701
    USA

    T: +1 202 828-0850

    E: investor.relations@danaher.com

    https://www.danaher.com

  • Sector

    Healthcare

    Stock type

    Defensive

  • Industry

    Diagnostics & Research

    Fiscal Year End

    31 December 2024

    Employees

    63,000

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