Danaher Corporation

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Danaher Corporation

Type	Public (NYSE: DHR)
Founded	Washington, D.C. (1969)
Headquarters	Washington, D.C.
Key people	H.Lawrence Culp, Jr., CEO & President Steven M. Rales, Chairman Daniel L. Comas, CFO
Industry	Manufacturing
Revenue	$7,984 million USD (2005)
Employees	~40,000 (2005)
Slogan	Invent.
Website	www.danaher.com

The Danaher Corporation NYSE: DHR, is a large global company headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States. Its products are concentrated in the fields of design, manufacture, and marketing of industrial and consumer products.

It operates in three segments: Professional Instrumentation, Industrial Technologies, and Tools and Components.

The company was organized in 1969. It was formerly known as DMG, Inc. and changed its name to Diversified Mortgage Investors, Inc. in 1978. Further, the company changed its name to Danaher Corporation in 1984.

The origin of "Danaher" goes back to the root "Dana", a Celtic word dating from before 700 BC and meaning "swift flowing", and is also the name of a river in Idaho in which two of the Rales Brothers used to fish. Danaher Motion is the US Flagship of Danaher Corporation's Industrial Technologies branch with over 1 billion in sales[1]

UK based West Instruments provides control and measurement instrumentation solutions and services for the global industrial and process markets. [2]

German Instrumentation manufacturer PMA was added to the Industrial Controls Group in 2005 and enhances the range of control and measurement instrumentation solutions.[3]

In early 2007 Danaher acquired Australian Pathology Instrument and Engineering company Vision Systems Limited. [4]]