CONMED to acquire C.R. Bard product line

Healthcare Purchasing News, Oct, 2004

CONMED Corp (Utica, NY) will acquire from C.R. Bard Inc (Murray Hill, NJ) certain products of its Endoscopic Technologies business. The business consists of a comprehensive line of single-use medical devices employed by gastro-intestinal (GI) and pulmonary physicians to diagnose and treat diseases of the digestive tract and lungs using minimally invasive endoscopic techniques.

The Endoscopic product line to be acquired had 2003 revenues approximating $54 million and is the third largest domestic supplier of these types of products to the market.