Covidien
Covidien is a $12 billion global healthcare products leader dedicated to innovation and long-term growth. Covidien creates innovative medical solutions for better patient outcomes and delivers value through clinical leadership and excellence.
At Covidien, we're passionate about making doctors, nurses, pharmacists and other medical professionals as effective as they can be. Through ongoing collaboration with these medical professionals and healthcare organizations, we identify clinical needs and translate them into proven products and procedures. Our industry-leading brands – including Kendall, Mallinckrodt, Nellcor, Puritan-Bennett and Valleylab – are known and respected worldwide for uncompromising quality.
Over the years, we've pioneered a number of medical advances, including contrast media delivery, pulse oximetry, electrosurgery, surgical stapling, laparoscopic instrumentation and embolization devices. This extensive product line, spanning medical devices, pharmaceuticals and medical supplies, enables us to serve healthcare needs in hospitals, long-term care and alternate care facilities, doctors' offices, pharmacies and in the home.
Covidien is part of the local fabric of the communities in which we operate around the world. Our success is made possible through the dedication of our 43,000 employees, nearly two-thirds of whom work in 51 manufacturing facilities located in 18 countries. Every day, over 5,500 Covidien sales representatives meet the needs of our customers in 70 countries. In all, our Company derives 45% of its sales from outside the United States.
link: www.covidien.nl