Abbott Laboratories specializes in the research, development, manufacturing and marketing of pharmaceutical and medical products. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- diagnostic systems and instruments (39.1%);
- vascular devices (24.7%): endoprosthetic systems, dilation catheters, arterial closures, etc.;
- nutrition products (12.1%): pediatric nutrition products, nutritional supplements, and dietetic products;
- medicine (8.2%): anesthetics, antiviral products, antibiotics, inhibitors, anti-inflammatories, etc.;
- other (15.9%).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (38.5%), Germany (5.8%), China (5.6%), India (4.4%), Switzerland (4.1%), Japan (3.8%), Netherlands (2.7%) and others (35.1%).
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