The Cooper Companies

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The Cooper Companies, Inc.
Formerly
  • Cooper, Tinsley Laboratories, Inc. (1961 - 1967)
  • Cooper Laboratories, Inc. (1967 - 1987)
Company type Public
Industry Medical Devices
Founded1958;68 years ago (1958)
Headquarters San Ramon, California, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Albert G. White III
(President & CEO)
ProductsMedical Devices
RevenueIncrease2.svg US$4.09 billion (2025)
Decrease2.svg US$683 million (2025)
Decrease2.svg US$375 million (2025)
Total assets Increase2.svg US$12.4 billion (2025)
Total equity Increase2.svg US$8.24 billion (2025)
Number of employees
15,000 (2025)
Website coopercos.com
Footnotes /references
[1]

The Cooper Companies, Inc., branded as CooperCompanies, is a global medical device company headquartered in San Ramon, California. [2] The company consists of two business units, CooperVision (CVI) which manufactures contact lenses, and CooperSurgical (CSI), which manufactures medical devices and fertility and genomic products for the women's healthcare market. [3]

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History

Parker Montgomery, a lawyer, bought Martin H. Smith Co. in 1958. The company was renamed to Cooper, Tinsley Laboratories, Inc. in 1961. Its name was changed to Cooper Laboratories Inc. in 1967, [4] [5] and entered the contact lens business when it acquired British lens maker GlobalVision in 1972. [6]

In 1980, Cooper Laboratories reorganized into three business groups: CooperVision, CooperCare and CooperBiomedical, with Cooper Medical Devices Corp. added as a fourth group one year later. [7]

The company was renamed The Cooper Companies in 1987. Three years later, it was further restructured into three business units: CooperVision, CooperSurgical and CooperVision Pharmaceuticals (dissolved in 2003).

Currently, the firm operates as two business units: CooperVision and CooperSurgical. [8] CooperVision serves contact lens wearers and eye care practitioners. [9] Products include a range of daily, two-week and monthly disposable contact lenses, and other spherical, toric and multifocal lenses for astigmatism, nearsightedness and farsightedness, and presbyopia. [10]

CooperSurgical is the medical device and fertility and genomics unit of the companies. It became a business unit in 1990 and its focus includes women's health and fertility. [11] [12] It is headquartered in Trumbull, Connecticut.

Acquisitions

Ocular Sciences Inc. was acquired by CooperVision in 2005. [13]

CooperSurgical acquired AEGEA Medical, a medical manufacturing company in February 2021. [14] A month later, in March, the company acquired Safe Obstetric Systems, [15] [12] and in December 2021, CooperSurgical acquired Generate Life Sciences for $1.6 billion. [16]

In March 2022, CooperSurgical acquired Cook Medical's reproductive health business for $875 million. [17] During that same year the company acquired EnsEyers, a supplier of orthokeratology and scleral contact lenses. [18]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "FY 2025 Annual Report (Form 10-K)". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. December 5, 2025.
  2. ↑ Rogers, Jack (2022-08-03). "Bay Area Surgical Device Maker Plans 1.2M SF Expansion". GlobeSt. Retrieved 2022-11-22.
  3. ↑ "The Cooper Companies - Consensus Indicates Potential 22.2% Upside - DirectorsTalk Interviews". 26 April 2022.
  4. ↑ Admin (2013-01-16). "CooperVision's Strategic Supply Chain Transformation: Mastering Complexity and Integration". Supply Chain World magazine. Retrieved 2025-06-20.
  5. ↑ "Assignment Center". Assignment Center. Retrieved 2026-01-09.
  6. ↑ Rüsche, Sven Oliver. "Sauerland Nachrichten". Südwestfalen Nachrichten | Am Puls der Heimat. (in German). Retrieved 2022-07-22.
  7. ↑ "Our Storied History". CooperVision. 11 March 2013. Archived from the original on 7 July 2022. Retrieved 9 January 2026.
  8. ↑ Devarasetti, Hasini (2022-02-08). "CooperCompanies to acquire Cook Medical's Reproductive Health business". Medical Device Network. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
  9. ↑ "The Top 25 Healthcare Technology Leaders of Jacksonville for 2022". The Healthcare Technology Report. 20 September 2022. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
  10. ↑ "CooperVision". CooperVision.
  11. ↑ Leuty, Ron (2022-02-09). "How an East Bay giant is buying into a vision for women's reproductive health". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  12. 1 2 Hale, Conor (2022-02-08). "CooperSurgical to acquire Cook Medical's IVF, OB-GYN businesses for $875M". Fierce Biotech. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  13. ↑ Admin (2013-01-16). "CooperVision's Strategic Supply Chain Transformation: Mastering Complexity and Integration". Supply Chain World magazine. Retrieved 2025-06-24.
  14. ↑ "CooperSurgical buys US company AEGEA Medical". NS Medical Devices. 2021-02-03. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
  15. ↑ Boyle, Annette (2022-02-08). "Cooper acquires Cook's reproductive health lines for $875M". www.bioworld.com. Retrieved 2023-01-24.
  16. ↑ "CooperCompanies wraps up acquisition of Generate Life Sciences". NS Medical Devices. 2021-12-20. Retrieved 2023-01-18.
  17. ↑ Newmarker, Chris (2022-02-07). "CooperCompanies to buy Cook Medical's reproductive health business for $875M". MassDevice. Retrieved 2023-11-21.
  18. ↑ Whooley, Sean (2022-06-01). "CooperVision buys EnsEyes to accelerate specialty contact lens growth in Nordic countries". MassDevice. Retrieved 2025-08-07.
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