Business Segment: CooperSurgical

CooperSurgical offers a broad range of medical devices, diagnostic products and surgical instruments and accessories used primarily by gynecologists and obstetricians. The company continues to pursue its strategy of consolidation by acquiring key treatment niches within this highly fragmented market. CooperSurgical has focused its efforts in areas where demographic trends will present worthwhile business opportunities, including infertility, incontinence and osteoporosis.

Trends:

In 1999, over 90 million women between the ages of 15 and 64 recorded more than 118 million visits to the Ob/Gyn

Over 70 million of these were related to gynecologic complaints

By the year 2010, the United States Census Bureau projects that the number of women in this age group will increase by 12 percent

Over 40 million of these women will be 45 to 64 years of age

This age group represents the largest growth segment of the female population as the "baby boomers" enter middle age. By then, the total number of visits to the Ob/Gyn is projected to reach 132 million with 84 million associated with gynecologic complaints.

Through strategic acquisitions the company is highly penetrated in the three practice settings servicing women's healthcare issues with nearly 60% of Ob/Gyn offices, 65% of hospitals and 69% of fertility clinics recorded as current customers

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