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Becton, Dickinson and Company (BDX)At 4:00PM ET: 75.63  Up 0.38 (0.50%)  
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Becton, Dickinson and Company
1 Becton Drive
Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417-1880
United States - Map
Phone: 201-847-6800
Fax: 201-847-6475
Web Site: http://www.bd.com

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Index Membership:S&P 500
S&P 1500 Super Comp
Sector:Healthcare
Industry:Medical Instruments & Supplies
Full Time Employees:29,000

BUSINESS SUMMARY 
Becton, Dickinson and Company, a medical technology company, develops, manufactures, and sells medical supplies, devices, laboratory equipment, and diagnostic products worldwide. Its BD Medical segment offers medical devices needles, syringes, and intravenous catheters for medication delivery; syringes and pen needles; prefillable drug delivery devices provided to pharmaceutical companies and sold to end-users as drug/device combinations; surgical blades, and regional anesthesia needles and trays; critical care monitoring devices; ophthalmic surgical instruments; and sharps disposal containers. The company’s BD Diagnostics segment provides products for the safe collection and transport of diagnostic specimens and instruments for analysis, including preanalytical and diagnostic systems comprising integrated systems for specimen collection, a line of safety-engineered blood collection products and systems; plated media; automated blood culturing systems; molecular testing systems for sexually transmitted diseases and healthcare-associated infections; microorganism identification and drug susceptibility systems; liquid-based cytology systems for cervical cancer screening; and rapid diagnostic assays. Its BD Biosciences segment offers fluorescence activated cell sorters and analyzers; cell imaging systems, monoclonal antibodies, and kits for performing cell analysis; reagent systems for life sciences research; tools to aid in drug discovery and growth cells and tissue; cell culture media supplements for biopharmaceutical manufacturing; and diagnostic assays. Becton, Dickinson and Company serves hospitals, laboratories, clinics, consumers and retail pharmacies, public health agencies, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, healthcare workers, blood banks, patients, physicians’ office practices, and academic and government institutions. The company was founded in 1897 and is based in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey.
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    CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 
    Becton, Dickinson and Company's Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ®) as of 6-Nov-09 is better than 16.7% of S&P 500 companies and 78.6% of Health Care Equipment & Services companies.
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    KEY EXECUTIVES 
     PayExercised
    Mr. Edward J. Ludwig , 58
    Chairman, Chief Exec. Officer and Chairman of Exec. Committee
    $ 2.59M $ 18.04M
    Mr. Vincent A. Forlenza , 55
    Pres
    $ 1.16M $ 2.73M
    Mr. Gary M. Cohen , 50
    Exec. VP
    $ 985.00K $ 7.77M
    Mr. William A. Kozy , 57
    Exec. VP
    $ 1.01M $ 5.84M
    Mr. David V. Elkins ,
    Chief Financial Officer and Exec. VP
    N/A N/A
    Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-08 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc. "Exercised" is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year.
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