Leica Microsystems

Overview

• Industryindustrial manufacturing¹
• HeadquartersWetzlar¹
• Websitewww.leica-microsystems.com/de/?country=DE
• Legal formGesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung¹
• LEI9676004K743T5T0N7P27³
• StatusActive³
• LEI statusLapsed (not renewed)³
• Registered addressErnst-Leitz-Strasse 17-37, 35578 Wetzlar, Germany³
• Registered withLocal Court Wetzlar, HRB 5187³

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Leica Microsystems GmbH is a German microscope manufacturing company. It is a manufacturer of optical microscopes, equipment for the preparation of microscopic specimens and related products. There are ten plants in eight countries with distribution partners in over 100 countries. Leica Microsystems emerged in 1997 out of a 1990 merger between Wild-Leitz, headquartered in Heerbrugg Switzerland, and Cambridge Instruments of Cambridge England. The merger of those two umbrella companies created an alliance of the following 8 individual manufacturers of scientific instruments. American Optical Scientific Products, Carl Reichert Optische Werke AG, R.Jung, Bausch and Lomb Optical Scientific Products Division, Cambridge Instruments, E.Leitz Wetzlar, Kern & Co., and Wild Heerbrugg AG, bringing much-needed modernization and a broader degree of expertise to the newly created entity called Leica Holding B.V. group. In 1997 the name was changed to Leica Microsystems and is a wholly owned entity of Danaher Corporation since July 2005. Danaher is an American global conglomerate.²

Corporate structure

Leica Microsystems is part of a group headed by Danaher Corporation. 144 entities, 28 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries listed in Exhibit 21 of annual reports filed with the SEC; subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Leica Microsystems reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

• Leica

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.¹

Products and brands

• microscope

Listed on Wikidata.¹

Subsidiaries and ownership

Also owns

• Leica

From Wikidata.¹

Timeline

1. 1997Founded Founded¹

Links

• Websitewww.leica-microsystems.com¹
• Websitewww.leica-microsystems.com/de/?country=DE¹
• WikipediaLeica Microsystems
• More imagesWikimedia Commons
• WikidataQ880935