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</description><ccbn:type xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">Brief</ccbn:type><ccbn:docid xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">B1670008</ccbn:docid><category>Credit &amp; Investment Research</category><alacra:ip>Thomson Street Events</alacra:ip></item><item><link>http://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/ccbn/T1670008</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ccbn/T1670008</guid><ccbn:index_mode xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">norm</ccbn:index_mode><pubDate>10/23/2007 6:12:00 PM</pubDate><ccbn:name xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">C.R. Bard, Inc.</ccbn:name><ccbn:price xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">54.0000</ccbn:price><ccbn:revision xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">Final</ccbn:revision><ccbn:storetitle xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">Q3 2007 C.R. Bard, Inc. Earnings Conference Call Transcript</ccbn:storetitle><ccbn:ticker xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">BCR</ccbn:ticker><ccbn:time xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">5:00pm ET</ccbn:time><title>Q3 2007 C.R. Bard, Inc. Earnings Conference Call Transcript</title><description>... - C.R. Bard, Inc, -  Chairman, CEO Thank you.  Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to Bard's third quarter #### earnings conference call. I would like to again thank you for taking the time to join us today and I would expect the presentation portion of this call to last around ## minutes. The agenda today will go as follows; I'll begin a brief overview of the results of the third quarter for ####. John Weiland, our President and Chief Operating Officer will review third quarter product line revenue. Todd Schermerhorn, our Senior VP, and CFO, will review the third quarter income statement and balance sheet as well as our expectations for the third quarter. And after that John DeFord, our Senior VP of Science, Technology and Clinical Affairs, will give you an update of our product line development. Then we will do what we typically do, we will close with a Q &amp; A. Third quarter, #### net sales totaled $###.# million. This represents an increase over the third quarter of last year of ##%...

</description><ccbn:type xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">Transcript</ccbn:type><ccbn:docid xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">T1670008</ccbn:docid><category>Credit &amp; Investment Research</category><alacra:ip>Thomson Street Events</alacra:ip></item><item><link>http://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/ccbn/B1601728</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ccbn/B1601728</guid><ccbn:index_mode xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">norm</ccbn:index_mode><pubDate>7/24/2007 10:12:00 PM</pubDate><ccbn:name xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">C.R. Bard, Inc.</ccbn:name><ccbn:price xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">54.0000</ccbn:price><ccbn:revision xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">Edited</ccbn:revision><ccbn:storetitle xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">Q2 2007 C.R. Bard, Inc. Earnings Conference Call Summary</ccbn:storetitle><ccbn:ticker xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">BCR</ccbn:ticker><ccbn:time xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">5:00pm ET</ccbn:time><title>Q2 2007 C.R. Bard, Inc. Earnings Conference Call Summary</title><description>...BCR reported #Q## net sales of $###.#m, income from continuing operations of $##m and diluted EPS of $#.##. For #Q## income from continuing operations is expected to be $#.##-#.##. ...

</description><ccbn:type xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">Brief</ccbn:type><ccbn:docid xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">B1601728</ccbn:docid><category>Credit &amp; Investment Research</category><alacra:ip>Thomson Street Events</alacra:ip></item><item><link>http://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/ccbn/T1601728</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ccbn/T1601728</guid><ccbn:index_mode xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">norm</ccbn:index_mode><pubDate>7/24/2007 7:14:00 PM</pubDate><ccbn:name xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">C.R. Bard, Inc.</ccbn:name><ccbn:price xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">54.0000</ccbn:price><ccbn:revision xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">Final</ccbn:revision><ccbn:storetitle xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">Q2 2007 C.R. Bard, Inc. Earnings Conference Call Transcript</ccbn:storetitle><ccbn:ticker xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">BCR</ccbn:ticker><ccbn:time xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">5:00pm ET</ccbn:time><title>Q2 2007 C.R. Bard, Inc. Earnings Conference Call Transcript</title><description>...and other non-GAAP measures during this call. Management believes that when discussing revenue growth, eliminating the impact changes in foreign exchange, which have a nonoperating impact, provides an additional and meaningful assessment of the core health of individual product franchises. Reconciliations of non-GAAP measures to the most comparable GAAP measures are provided in Bard's earnings press release and on the Company's website at www.crbard.com. Please also note that all information that is not historical is given only as of July ##th, ####, and the Company undertakes no responsibility to update any information. Unless otherwise noted, all comparisons are to the prior year period. At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Mr. Timothy Ring. Please go ahead, sir. ...

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