Topic summary
Hybritech
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Beckman Coulter.
History
In 1982, the company merged into SmithKline to form SmithKline Beckman, with Arnold Beckman as vice chairman, but regained its independence in 1989 after SmithKline merged with Beecham Group to form SmithKline Beecham (now part of GlaxoSmithKline). Following the acquisition of Hybritech, Inc. from Eli Lilly in 1985 and Sanofi of Sanofi Pasteur Diagnostics in 1996, the company acquired Coulter Corporation in 1998, a company founded by Wallace H. Coulter, the inventor of the Coulter counter. The merged company became Beckman Coulter. Following the company's acquisition of the Lab-based Diagnostics business of Olympus Corporation Japan in 2009, Beckman Coulter moved its world headquarters from Fullerton, California to a newly renovated facility in Brea.