Becton Dickinson

Bob is president of Strategic Consulting and co-host of the Food Safety Matters podcast.

He brings more than 40 years of experience in industrial diagnostics and laboratory businesses, including a former role as worldwide vice president and general manager at Becton Dickinson.

Bob writes the Food Safety Insights column for Food Safety Magazine, drawing on research and surveys that he conducts with our audience into the testing technologies and practices used by food safety professionals.

He holds a bachelor's degree in microbiology from Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from LaSalle University.

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First, Waters Corporation has always been a strong, underappreciated company in space.

They made an aggressive move to become an even bigger player last year when they combined with Becton Dickinson's biosciences and diagnostic solutions business in what's known as a reverse Morris Trust transaction.

That deal is working out phenomenally well for Waters.

whose shares are up nearly 50% over the past six months, including a nearly 5% gain today after a very strong third quarter report, with even better guidance for the fourth quarter, including an outlook for 7% to 9% organic growth.

It was a garage business in the beginning.

And, you know, he really built it up, became partners with Becton Dickinson and ended up selling the company to them and really, you know, decided he was never going to work again and, you know, just kind of had fun the rest of his life.

How long did

he have fun? So that's an interesting, because a lot of entrepreneurs can't stop working, right? So he, but he did, it sounds like, and he just enjoyed his...

Like, how does that happen in the, uh, the quiet corner or whatever you would call it up in Litchfield County?

Y- yeah, so this is, uh, a Becton Dickinson and Company.

They're out of New Jersey.

Large, pretty large, um, m- medical device manufacturer.

Um, federal regulators are basically urging healthcare providers to move away from pl- plastic syringes manufactured in China particularly.

A lot of them came from there, so there's been a lot of more domestic production.

And so, uh, this company, Becton Dickinson, again, based in New Jersey, but this big plant in, in Canaan, uh, in Canaan is kind of the, the, uh, the sweet spot right now for, for growth for this company.

It's just so weird.

And conversely, utilizing your core business expertise to solve those social problems represents the largest untapped market opportunities in the global economy.

The example of Becton Dickinson in the HBS source makes this so concrete.

Um, Becton Dickinson is a massive medical technology company.

They didn't just write a check to a global health charity and call it a day.

They looked at a catastrophic social problem.

Millions of healthcare workers globally were contracting deadly diseases like HIV and hepatitis C because of accidental needle stick injuries while treating patients.

It was a massive humanitarian crisis.

So Becton Dickinson didn't launch a PR campaign.

President Trump and Anduril announced a $6.6 billion investment into Arsenal 2, the biggest new American shipyard since World War II.

Becton Dickinson agreed to invest $19 billion in the US, including $3 billion in American manufacturing.

How about those Senate races, right? This is where the r- Democratic problem comes really into focus.

It's where it comes into focus, right? It comes into focus.