Baxter

Baxter International, situated in Illinois, has a total sales of $11.1 billion and employs 50,000 people worldwide. Baxter's premier range of critical care, nutrition, renal, hospital, and surgical products is relied on by millions of patients and caregivers every day. They've been at the important crossroads where innovations that save and maintain lives meet the healthcare practitioners who make it happen for almost 85 years. Baxter's workers throughout the world are building on the company's long history of medical discoveries to develop the next generation of revolutionary healthcare advances, with products, technologies, and therapies accessible in more than 100 countries.

Its medical equipment products are grouped into four categories: critical care, hospital care, surgical care, and renal care. Its current flagship products include the Amia dialysis machine and the Spectrum IQ infusion pump, which are used to treat end-stage renal disease patients at home.

During the worldwide swine flu pandemic in 2009, Baxter was one of just a few firms to get EU approval for an H1N1 influenza vaccine candidate.

Founded: 1931