BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY

Becton, Dickinson and Company specializes in the development, manufacturing and marketing of medical and diagnostic equipment and materials. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:

- medical equipment (46.8%): surgical instruments (25.7% of net sales), pharmaceutical systems (19.3%), diabetes care products (12.2%), and other (42.8%);

- diagnostic materials (32.3%): automated systems for blood testing, mycobacteria detection, and molecular biology, medical biology devices, etc.;

- clinical research and development tools (20.9%): tools for discovering drugs and vaccines, studying genes, culturing cells, and manipulating liquids, instruments for sorting and analyzing cells, monoclonal antibodies, etc.

Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (54.2%), Europe, Middle East and Africa (23.5%), Asia 16.1%) and other (6.2%).