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 (38%); - vascular devices (21%): endoprosthetic systems, dilation catheters, arterial closures, etc.; - nutrition products (17.1%): pediatric nutrition products, nutritional supplements, and dietetic products; - medicine (11.2%): anesthetics, antiviral products, antibiotics, inhibitors, anti-inflammatories, etc.; - other (12.7%). Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (41.5%), Germany (5.4%), China (4.9%), Japan (4.4%), India (3.8%), Switzerland (3.1%), Canada (2.9%) and other (34%).