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<item><link>http://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/ccbn/T2512600</link><ccbn:docid xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">T2512600</ccbn:docid><guid isPermaLink="false">ccbn/T2512600</guid><ccbn:index_mode xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">norm</ccbn:index_mode><pubDate>12 Nov 2009 03:08:00 EST</pubDate><ccbn:eventid xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">2512600</ccbn:eventid><ccbn:headline xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">Final Transcript of DHR presentation, 12-Nov-09 8:45am ET</ccbn:headline><ccbn:name xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">Danaher</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">Danaher at Citi Industrials Conference Transcript</ccbn:storetitle><ccbn:ticker xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">DHR</ccbn:ticker><ccbn:time xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">8:45am ET</ccbn:time><title>Danaher at Citi Industrials Conference Transcript</title><ccbn:type xmlns:ccbn="http://www.alacra.com/ccbn">Transcript</ccbn:type><description>...Thomson Editor (Audio starts in progress) Jeffrey Sprague - Citi - Analyst Actually just pick up where you ended with the AB Sciex. I think there is a DOD, DOJ delay there. Is there anything in particular that stands out as problematic with the deal from a competition standpoint? Larry Culp - Danaher - President and CEO No. I think it was just a matter of the process running its course. There is a limit to what we should say but I'll just underscore what we put out in the release. The topic under review pertains to some overlap in what is basically a $## million market space where we have a modest position as do they. And I think that just needs to resolve itself. But in terms of the reason we are there in terms of the core [mass spec] position, there are no issues. Jeffrey Sprague - Citi - Analyst Your deal activity recently and really even in the recent past has been platform reinforcing and expanding and moving out in the [peripheral] (inaudible). It's been a while since we've seen a...

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Well, thanks, Scott, and appreciate the invitation. We will do our best to stay awake here over the next ## minutes or so, but an exciting couple of days here for us. Happy to get into as much detail as you would like. In terms of who we are, I think if you look over ## years clearly there has been an evolution in the portfolio; another step announced today. But when you crack open the K you see four main segments obviously -- med tech with this deal will be a $# billion business for us, well balanced between life sciences and diagnostics on one hand, and on the other hand the dental business. Our professional instrumentation business is really geared very much toward the environmental space with a real focus on water quality applications. In test and measurement our Fluke and Tektronix brands are recognized, I think, as market leaders and a broad array of electrical and electronic test and measurement applications. In what we refer to...

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