A global medical products company that serves the specialty healthcare market through its subsidiaries CooperVision and CooperSurgical. Corporate offices are in located Pleasanton, California.

CooperVision (www.coopervision.com) develops, manufactures, and markets a broad range of contact lenses for the worldwide vision correction market. It is a global leader in contact lenses and its manufacturing facilities are located in Juana Diaz, Puerto Rico, Norfolk, Va., Rochester, N.Y., Adelaide, Australia, Hamble and Hampshire, England and Madrid, Spain.

CooperSurgical (www.coopersurgical.com) develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices, diagnostic products, and surgical instruments and accessories used primarily by gynecologists and obstetricians. It is a leader in the US Ob-Gyn space and its major manufacturing and distribution facilities are located in Trumbull, Connecticut.

MARKET STRENGTH

CooperVision became the world's third largest supplier of soft contact lenses in January 2005 with its acquisition of Ocular Sciences, Inc., a leading contact lens manufacturer, and has since maintained this position. CooperSurgical is the largest supplier of products used in physician's offices in the United States to diagnose and treat gynecologic disorders.