Danaher Corporation
American conglomerate
Danaher Corporation is an American healthcare company headquartered in Washington, D.C.. It develops products used for advances in biotechnology, life sciences, and diagnostics. The company operates three divisions: biotechnology (28% of 2024 revenues), which develops products for the development of therapeutics; life sciences (31% of 2024 revenues), which develops products to identify causes of disease, new therapies, and to test and manufacture new drugs, vaccines and gene editing technologies; and diagnostics (41% of 2024 revenues), which develops instruments, consumables, and software and services to diagnose diseases. Danaher was founded in 1984 by brothers Steven Rales and Mitchell Rales; it was named after Danaher Creek in Western Montana, where the brothers came up with the idea for the company while fishing.
The company is ranked 180th on the Fortune 500 and 241st on the Forbes Global 2000.
History
Early years
The company's origins go back to DMG, Inc., a Massachusetts real estate investment trust organized in 1969. In 1978, DMG, Inc. was reorganized as a Florida corporation and changed its name to Diversified Mortgage Investors, Inc. In 1983, the Stephen M. Rales and Mitchell P. Rales invested in the company, which at that time was invested in retirement home developments, they then replaced the existing management in a bitter proxy battle.
In 1984, the company adopted the name Danaher and reincorporated under the Delaware General Corporation Law.
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