We are a leading global provider of products and services to customers in the biopharma, healthcare, education & government, and advanced technologies & applied materials industries. Our comprehensive offerings, which include materials & consumables, equipment & instrumentation and services & specialty procurement, are relied upon by our customers, often on a recurring basis, because they are frequently specified into their research, development and production processes. We collaborate closely with our customers to enable them to develop new innovative products, lower their development and production costs, improve product or process performance characteristics, and enhance the safety and reliability of the drugs, devices, and other products they produce. In addition to relying on our products, many customers depend upon our services. Some of these services are performed by approximately 1,400 of our associates that are co-located with certain customers, working side-by-side with their scientists every day. Our local presence combined with global infrastructure enable and promote successful relationships with our customers and connect us to over 240,000 of their locations in over 180 countries. Our mission is to set science in motion to create a better world.