We need a scan of the medical device industry to understand the 
players, their revenues, their specialities.

1. How many medical device companies ? in total ? are in the US?
How does this total number break down by...
? Total revenue
? Size of company (by revenue ? large is $1b revenue plus; medium would 
be $10m to $999m and small is less than 10 million revenue)
? Clinical specialty e.g. Cardio, neuro, imaging, ortho, oncology, 
vascular, cosmetic, commodity items,  etc
? Publicly traded vs. privately held

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 19 Jan 2006 15:17 PST

Hello again Jimwalden,


Please take a look at the material I posted in the comment box below.
If my findings suit your purpose I will be gladly repost the
information in the answer box in order to receive the fee.

Thanks
Bobbie7

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 22 Jan 2006 19:31 PST

Hello again Jimwalden,

Did any of the material I provided in the comment box help?

Please let me know.

Thank you,

Sincerely, 
Bobbie7

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Clarification of Question by jimwalden-ga on 24 Jan 2006 15:06 PST

Hi Bobbie,

The person requesting the answer thinks there is a lot of missing
info...they are still looking it over to see if any of it is
valuable...I will let you know as soon as I do.

Thanks!
S

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 24 Jan 2006 15:09 PST

Thanks for letting me know.

--Bobbie7

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Clarification of Question by jimwalden-ga on 24 Jan 2006 17:47 PST

Sorry Bobbie,

The person I'm researching for is going to a research firm.  He didn't
think the data was correct.  I apologize for this, I know you are a
good researcher and spent some time trying to answer this for us.

I looked at the Google Answer FAQs and didn't see any way of partially
paying you.  Maybe I can make it up to you in a tip on your next
research for me?

Thanks!
S

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Request for Question Clarification by bobbie7-ga on 24 Jan 2006 18:06 PST

Dear Jimwalden,

Thank you for offering to partially pay me for my work.

It is possible. All you have to do is lower the price of this question
and I would then repost my findings in the answer box.
 
(You can change the price by going to "My Account," 
selecting "My Unanswered Questions", clicking on the question, and 
then clicking on "Change Question Parameters" to modify the pricing.) 

Or,  as you suggested you can make it up with a tip on the next
question I answer for you.

It?s up to you.


Thanks again, 

Sincerely,
Bobbie7

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Clarification of Question by jimwalden-ga on 31 Jan 2006 15:17 PST

Hi Bobbie,

Unfortunately, I can't get approval to pay any $ for the answer.  I
promise to make it up to you on future answers.

Thanks for your help.
S

Jimwalden, 

Here arethe results of my research.


Top medical device companies ranked by 2004 revenue.

Company                      2004 revenue 
                             (millions)      1-year change (%) 
Boston Scientific Corp.      $5,624.0        61.8 
Thermo Electron Corp.        $2,206.0        16.1 
PerkinElmer                  $1,687.2        10.1 
PolyMedica Corp.               $445.8         9.4 
Cytyc Corp.                    $393.6        29.9 
Haemonetics Corp.              $381.3         9.8 
Inverness Medical Innovations  $376.9        27.0 
Hologic                        $245.0        19.6 
Zoll Medical Corp.             $211.6        10.0 
Lifeline Systems               $130.5        12.4 

SOURCE: Standard & Poor's Compustat
http://www.boston.com/business/globe/globe100/2005/charts/top_medical_device_companies.html


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Globe 100 
2005 chart ranked by composite performance.
For copyright reason I cannot post the table here; however there is
free registration  and then you will be able to view the ranking and
additional data and information for each company
http://www.boston.com/business/globe/globe100/2005/charts/globe_100.html


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I also  located one free downloadable 28 page report published in May
2004 that would provide you with a wealth of information, graphs and
pie charts  regarding the medical device industry in Massachusetts and
in the United States.


MEDICAL DEVICES:
Supporting the Massachusetts Economy
Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council
University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute
Download here:
http://www.massmedic.com/docs/Umass_Medical_Device.pdf

Read about this report here:
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/employment/8240/8240employment.html


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There is also  a fee based report that would address this question as
well  answer your other question regarding the European medical device
market.

Medical Device Companies Performance Tables 2005 
Published in July 2005 (275 pages)  
Produced by Espicom Business Intelligence   
 
Who are the winners and losers in the global medical device industry?

This essential newly updated business reference report, published by
Espicom in July 2005, compares and contrasts the performance and
fortunes of 112 leading medical device and equipment companies. Each
company is ranked against a range of key business and financial
performance indicators, using reported figures from 2000 to 2004.

112 COMPANIES ANALYSED


Importantly, the new updated 2005 edition of the report analyses
individual results for 112 companies. Up to five years of key data
from the Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow are presented.

Furthermore, you can compare the performance of companies within three
geographical regions: North America, Japan and Europe.

The report costs $595.00  but it does address two of your questions
that are posted.
http://mdmr.net/onesource/catalog/Medical-Device-Companies-Performance-Tables-2005-p-480.html


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Medical Device Listing Records from the FDA

Releasable medical device listing information under the Freedom of Information 

Act is available directly from the Internet. 

The database is updated monthly. 

http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/devadvice/342.html

Establishment Registration and Medical Device Listing Files for Download
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/comp/estregls.html

Here is a list of registered medical device manufacturers worldwide.
Download here:(free)
http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/ftparea/cdrh/registra.zip


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Please let me know via the ?clarification? feature  if my findings
would be a satisfactory answer to your question?


Thank you, 
Bobbie7