Beckman Coulter, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of biomedical testing instruments systems, tests and supplies that simplify and automate laboratory processes. Spanning the biomedical testing continuum - pioneering medical research and clinical trails to laboratory diagnostics and point-of-care testing - Beckman Coulter's 200,000 installed systems provide essential biomedical information to enhance health care around the world. The company, based in Fullerton, Calif., reported annual sales of $2.44 billion in 2005; 64 percent of these dollars were derived from the sale of after-market reagents, test kits, consumables and service.