In 2014, the global equipment company's latest rankings were released. The top three companies still maintained their leading position last year. After that, the rankings of eight companies have not changed. Oxford Instruments (No. 21) and Jena Analysis (No. 25) entered the list for the first time. In 2013, the 13th German company Eppendorf did not enter the top 25 rankings due to the lack of timely reporting data this year. The 25th Qiagen last year also fell.
The rankings are:
The first place in Thermo Fisher (1st last year), 2nd in Agilent (2nd last year), 3rd in Danaher (3rd last year), 4th in Waters (4th last year), 5th in Shimadzu ( 5th last year, 6th in Roche (6th last year), 7th in Brooke (7th last year), 8th in PerkinElmer (8th last year), 9th in METTLER TOLEDO (9th last year), Carl Zeiss 10th (10th last year), Bole 11th (11th last year), Japan Electronics 12th (15th last year), Nikon 13th (14th last year), Spectris 14th (17th last year) , Illumina 15th (20th last year), Hitachi High-tech 16th (12th last year), Merck Millipore 17th (last year 16th), FEI 18th (last year 18th), Olympus 19th (19th last year), 20th of Xylem Analytics (21st of last year), 21st of Oxford Instruments (not entered last year), 22nd of Tecan Tecan (22nd last year), 23rd of last year (last year 24), Sartorius 24th (23rd last year), Jena analysis 25th (not entered last year).
Large companies, even if they experience wind and rain, are hard to shake. In 2013-2014, the world's leading laboratory tool companies, the relative market position determined by their instrument sales, have not changed, occupying a dominant position with the same trend.
In 2014, the geographical and end markets did not provide significant dynamic changes. This year, there is also a lack of huge acquisitions that are the core of the company in the past few years, but the purchase and sale of small businesses. In particular, the tightening of the currency exchange rate has made instrument companies pay more attention to cost control.
But this does not mean that 2014 is a depression. The top 25 analytical and life science instrument companies in instrument sales in 2014 rose 2.3% to $28 billion. These companies have sales in C&EN's 2014 rankings ranging from $155 million to $4.4 billion. Among them, sales of 14 companies increased, sales of seven companies declined, and sales of four other companies remained the same as in previous years.
In 2014, Thermo Fisher Scientific acquired Life Tech, which was the top spot, followed by Agilent Technologies. Following Agilent's split-edge electronic measurement business, Keysight Technologies, its life sciences, diagnostics, and applied chemistry markets are at the core.
Since the acquisition of Beckman Coulter in 2011, Danaher's data has fully demonstrated the company's strength before other instrument suppliers. Its life sciences business data, including SCIEX, Molecular Devices, Leica, C&EN ranked third in the list. However, in the previous survey, the company has been ranked higher because its data includes diagnostics, mainly in hospital and laboratory sales.
The detailed list of the top 25 global instrument companies in 2014 is as follows:
Note: The results are based on the calendar year unless otherwise stated. Some figures were converted using the average exchange rate associated with 2014. a. The fiscal year ends on October 31, 2014; b. The company estimates that the fiscal year ends on March 31, 2015; c. The result is only instrument sales in this branch area; d. The fiscal year ends in 2014 September 30th; e. End of fiscal year ended March 31, 2014
Not only did the top three companies still maintain their leading position last year, but the rankings of the eight companies did not change. In the top 11 companies, sales in 2014 increased by only 1% compared to 2013. This was mainly due to a decline in instrument sales for Agilent, Brooke and PerkinElmer. The increase in total sales of Agilent and PerkinElmer also comes from consumables and services.
Under the 11 list of rankings, the 13th German company Eppendorf in 2013 did not enter the top 25 rankings because it did not report the data in time. Also in the top 25 are Jena Analytical Instruments and Oxford Instruments, UK, based on Jena's acquisition of Brooke's ICP-MS business in September 2014.
At the same time, Hitachi High-Tech and Merck Millipore declined in rankings due to the decline in instrument sales, with Japan Electronics (JEOL) and Spectris rankings rising to 12th and 14th respectively.
Japan Electronics (JEOL) also saw a 29% increase in sales due to the repurchase of its nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) business, which was split in 2011. In 2014, Agilent decided to close its lagging NMR business due to the restructuring of JEOL. At the same time, Brooke is also working to transform the company's nuclear magnetic resonance business, Golda Sachs stock analyst Isaac Ro announced in a recent report to clients.
Illumina stood out from the rest of the list, ranking 15th in 2014 and rising 5 places. In 2009, the San Diego-based DNA sequencing technology company ranked only 25th. Thanks to Illumina's $10 million HiSeq X Ten system, this helped its instrument sales increase by 50% in 2014 to $558 million. Christian Henry, chief business officer of Illumina, said: "The launch of the HiSeq X Ten system is huge and far exceeds our expectations."
Like several other instrument products from Illumina, the X Ten system is a milestone. But like other companies, Illumina faces the downturn in core academic and government research markets. But what is good for Illumina is that many government agencies have already moved funds in other directions, such as DNA sequencing. Henry said, “On a global scale, companies are growing faster in labs and clinically than other businesses.†R&D spending.
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Instrument manufacturers' investment in 2014 increased. (Source: company data) a life science diagnosis business. b does not include electronic measurement services. c Scientific measuring instrument business.
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