PerkinElmer is a global technology leader driving growth and innovation in Health Sciences and Photonics markets to improve the quality of life. Combining operational excellence and technology expertise with an intimate understanding of its customers' needs, PerkinElmer provides products and services to customers who require innovation, precision and reliability. The company is a leading provider of scientific instruments, consumables and services to the pharmaceutical, biomedical, environmental testing and general industrial markets.

History of Innovation

PerkinElmer has a sixty year history of innovation in life sciences, analytical instrumentation and optoelectronics. This history originates from EG&G, Inc., founded by three MIT professors, Harold Edgerton, Kenneth Germeshausen and Herbert Grier, who joined to study the mechanisms and applications of high-speed photographic and stroboscopic techniques, and The Perkin-Elmer Company, founded by Richard S. Perkin and Charles W. Elmer as an optics design and consulting business.

In 1999, EG&G Inc. acquired the Analytical Instruments business of Perkin-Elmer and assumed the name PerkinElmer, Inc. The new company focused on further establishing its leadership in health sciences, photonics and fluid sciences and today generates revenue from two business areas: Life and Analytical Sciences and Optoelectronics.

Over the years PerkinElmer has achieved a number of industry milestones: inventing the world's first infrared spectrophotometer, selling the first commercially successful gas chromatograph, launching the earliest liquid chromatography analyzer with solvent gradient capability, and developing an atomic absorption (AA) instrument with a microcomputer that brought ease and efficiency to AA analysis.

Many of PerkinElmer's strategic partnerships have substantially impacted the way scientific research is conducted. In the 1980s, PerkinElmer's joint venture with MDS Sciex resulted in the first ICP-MS instrument for commercial applications. In the early 1990s, PerkinElmer formed an alliance with Hoffman La-Roche to advance Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technology, which amplified DNA and helped transform molecular biology. In 2000, PerkinElmer partnered with GE Medical Systems as its exclusive supplier of digital X-Ray detectors for advanced medical imaging to establish digital as a healthcare standard.

PerkinElmer has expanded its health sciences and optoelectronics leadership through strategic acquisitions. Its 2000 acquisition of NEN Life Science Products provided customers with a world-class line of radioactive reagents and instruments for genomic, proteomic, and drug discovery research; and its 2001 acquisition of Packard BioScience extended its capabilities in automation, liquid handling and sample preparation. Also in 2001, PerkinElmer acquired Analytical Automation Specialists, Inc., a leading supplier of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), which allowed PerkinElmer to provide a valuable informatics tool for improving laboratory productivity. During 2005, PerkinElmer acquired Elcos AG, adding leading-edge light emitting diode (LED) solutions capabilities to the existing photonics portfolio.

More recently, PerkinElmer in 2006 added important first-trimester screening capabilities and diagnostic tools for chromosomal abnormalities through acquisitions of NTD Laboratories and Spectral Genomics; expanded its leading OneSource® offering with C&A Service Solutions, a scientific equipment asset and management maintenance company; grew its molecular spectroscopy product portfolio with the acquisition of Avalon Instruments; and strengthened its high throughput and advanced cellular screening positions with the addition of Evotec Technologies, a leading provider of cellular imaging and analysis tools, and Euroscreen Products, the developer of AequeoScreen™, a novel luminescence platform for screening G protein-coupled receptors (GPCR), one of the largest classes of drug targets.

Core Competencies

PerkinElmer has aligned its product expertise around four key areas:

Diagnostics
Demand for predictive, noninvasive diagnostics is growing among both consumers and the healthcare community, driven by heightened awareness of the benefits of early disease detection. PerkinElmer is a world leader in two of the industry's fastest growing segments: genetic screening, which includes both neonatal and prenatal/maternal health screening; and digital x-ray imaging, a rapidly growing area of the $15 billion diagnostics market.

Detection and Analysis
PerkinElmer is globally recognized as an innovator of high-performance systems and tools - including precision instrumentation, chemical reagents and software - that enable researchers and technicians to detect and analyze samples in a wide range of critical health and industrial science applications. Our key growth segments in this arena are biopharmaceutical research and environmental monitoring.

Service
More than ever, global health and science firms are scrutinizing laboratory maintenance costs in search of additional organizational and operational efficiencies. Increasingly, these companies are turning to outsourced maintenance providers to help them reach both their productivity and profitability goals. PerkinElmer is leveraging its world-renowned reputation for strong service and support of its products to create a comprehensive asset managements and multi-vendor solution for companies seeking to consolidate their laboratory maintenance and responsibilities.

Photonics
The specialty lighting and sensors that make up our Photonics business cover a broad range of applications - from medical lighting, to motion detectors, to photoflash modules for the next generation of digital still cameras and mobile phone cameras. All of our customers, however, are driven by the same need: to develop technically advanced products that define "high performance" in terms of precision and reliability. PerkinElmer is able to deliver on these expectations by combining a customized, collaborative approach to each component we design, with the scale and efficiencies customers expect from a global supplier and distributor.