CooperVision

The Cooper Companies Inc., headquartered in Pleasanton, California, is assigned to a company health care.

CooperVision is one of the largest manufacturers of contact lenses, especially in the toric lenses special segment. The contact lenses from Cooper Vision are manufactured in seven company-owned production facilities, including in Rochester, Adelaide and Madrid. Larger distribution centers of the company located in the UK and the USA.

Company History

About the Company

Cooper Vision is a company of the Cooper Companies. Half of its 20 offices is based in Europe. CooperVision has approximately 6,600 employees, of which 2,500 in the European countries, and operates seven company-owned production facilities in international locations worldwide.

Corporate Development

Cooper Companies Inc., the parent company of Cooper Vision, was founded in 1958 originally as Martin H. Smith Co., in 1967 the company name was changed to Cooper Laboratories Inc.. In 1978 there was a reorganization in Cooper Laboratories, Cooper Medical Devices, Dental Cooper, Cooper and Cooper Vision International. Cooper Vision was registered in 1980 as a public limited company (Inc) and erfolgte1983 the IPO. CooperVision Inc. 1987 again changed the name to The Cooper Companies Inc. and was divided into three divisions: Cooper Technicon, Cooper Surgical and Cooper Vision.

The shareholders of the two companies The Cooper Companies and Ocular Sciences (OSI ) approved the acquisition of OSI on November 16, 2004. The supervisory authorities granted the approval and set the completion date it. By that date, the property of Ocular Sciences was transferred to the Division Cooper Vision. With the acquisition of Ocular Sciences, the American contact lens manufacturer CooperVision has been present since the beginning of 2005 on the German market.

2011 CooperVision announced a new brand positioning and visual appearance, which was developed by Siegel Gale, a global branding company. This rebranding won in 2012 as one of five companies the " Best of Awards" of REBRAND.

Prompted Also in 2011, Cooper Vision a product recall for a small batch of spherical and toric contact lenses of the Avaira family of products. The reason for this was that certain batches no longer corresponded to the latest quality standards of the company.

In 2013, researchers worked from Cooper Vision in cooperation with Linköping University (Sweden), the University of Ottawa (Canada), FibroGen Inc (USA) and Synsam Opticians ( Sweden) is a study of artificial corneas. This study was published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, also has the BBC ( British Broadcasting Corporation) reported in an article about it.

Important products

Cooper Vision develops, manufactures and markets a broad range of contact lenses, including a biocompatible contact lens family. The used for this purpose contact lens material Omafilcon A contains a polymer component is a synthetic copy of the substance phosphorylcholine, named PC. Phosphorylcholine comes as a constituent of the molecule present in all human, animal and plant cells and place in biomedicine, such as in bypasses, for some time application because it is recognized as endogenous substance.

Social Commitment

CooperVision is involved in various projects and scholarship programs.

The company will award a research - studies scholarship that optometry students to encourage them to participate in contact lens -based research projects.

In 2012, The Cooper Companies, Inc. and Cooper Vision donated $ 100,000 to the Optometry Giving Sight World Sight Day Challenge.

CooperVision is a founding patron and sponsor of Optometry Giving Sight, a global fundraising program, which has the aim to facilitate access to eye exams and eyeglasses worldwide.

The company also initiated the One Bright Vision Campaign in partnership with Optometry Giving Sight.

Awards

Cooper Vision won the SILMO d'Or award for her MyDay contact lenses at the Mondial de l' Optique in Paris, this was awarded in the 20th Silmo d'Or ceremony in 2013.

Offices in Europe

• France France: Sophia Antipolis Cedex
• Germany Germany: Eppertshausen
• Italy Italy: Lainate
• Netherlands Netherlands: Gorinchem
• Sweden Sweden: Stockholm
• Sweden Sweden Mölndal
• United Kingdom United Kingdom: Hamble