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Corporate Profile

Bausch & Lomb is the eye health company, dedicated to perfecting vision and enhancing life for consumers around the world.  Its core products include soft and rigid gas permeable contact lenses and lens care products, and ophthalmic surgical and pharmaceutical products.  The Bausch & Lomb name is one of the best known and most respected healthcare brands in the world.

Bausch & Lomb is headquartered in Rochester, New York.  It employs approximately 13,000 people worldwide and its products are available in more than 100 countries.

Bausch & Lomb manages its commercial operations on a regional basis and the research and development and product supply functions are managed on a global basis.

 

The company markets five broad categories of products:

  • Contact Lenses: The company's contact lens offerings span the entire spectrum of wearing modalities and include such well-known brand names as PureVision, SofLens66 Toric, SofLens One Day, SofLens Comfort, SofLens Multi-Focal, Boston and Optima FW.

  • Lens Care: The company's lens care products include the ReNu brand of chemical disinfectants as well as the Sensitive Eyes and the Boston lines of products for cleaning contact lenses.

  • Pharmaceuticals: The company's offerings include generic and proprietary prescription pharmaceuticals, over-the-counter eye drops and other medications.  Offerings in the prescription/proprietary category include Lotemax, Alrex and Zylet, the company's lines of steroid eye drops; and outside the U.S., carteol, a non-selective beta blocker; Minims preservative-free, single-dose drops; and Liposic ointment for dry eye.  In the over-the-counter segment the company's leading products include the Ocuvite and PreserVision lines of ocular vitamins.

  • Cataract and Vitreoretinal Surgery: The company offers a full suite of products in this area, including intraocular lenses and delivery systems, the Stellaris and Millennium lines of phacoemulsification equipment, and other surgical devices and instruments.

  • Refractive Surgery: Offerings in this area include the Zyoptix system for personalized vision correction (customized LASIK) and the Hansatome microkeratome.

 

Our Commitment to an Ethical Culture:

Trust, mutual respect and ethical behavior are essential to Bausch & Lomb's relationships with our eye care professional partners, our customers, our employees and our investors. In these relationships, we must conduct our business with the highest ethical standards - always assuring that our behaviors are consistent with both the letter and the spirit of Company Policies, laws and regulations - and with the exercise of good business judgment. Through Bausch & Lomb's Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, we publicly commit every employee to uphold the highest standards of business conduct and ethics - complying with laws, avoiding conflicts of interest, beating the competition ethically, meeting our business goals the right way, treating our diverse employees fairly and with respect, and maintaining a safe and healthy work environment for all employees. Every Bausch & Lomb employee has the obligation to conduct our business ethically.