Profile

The Cooper Companies, Inc., branded as CooperCompanies, is a global medical device company, publicly traded on the NYSE . With its headquarters in San Ramon, California, it has a workforce of more than 12,000 employees and consists of two business units, CooperVision which manufactures contact lenses, and CooperSurgical which manufactures medical devices and fertility and genomic products for the women’s health care market. CooperCompanies was founded in 1958 as Martin H. Smith Co. and later incorporated as Cooper Tinsley Laboratories Inc. in 1961. The company changed its name to Cooper Laboratories Inc. in 1967. Cooper Laboratories entered the contact lens business in 1972 when it acquired British lens maker GlobalVision.