ABBOTT LABORATORIES

Abbott Laboratories specializes in the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of pharmaceutical and medical products. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:

- diagnostic systems and instruments (36.3%);

- vascular devices (33.4%): endoprosthetic systems, dilation catheters, arterial closures, etc.;

- nutrition products (19.2%): pediatric nutrition products, nutritional supplements, and dietetic products;

- medicine (11%): anesthetics, antiviral products, antibiotics, inhibitors, anti-inflammatories, etc.;

- other (0.1%).

Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (38.6%), Germany (6%), China (5.6%), Japan (3.9%), India (3.6%), Canada (3.2%), Switzerland ( 3.1%) and others (36%).