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Abbott Laboratories
100 Abbott Park Road
Abbott Park, IL 60064-6400
Phone: 847-937-6l00
Fax: 847-937-1511
Web Site: http://www.abbott.com

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Index Membership: S&P 100
S&P 500
S&P 1500 Super Comp
Sector: Healthcare
Industry: Drug Manufacturers - Major
Employees (last reported count): 72,000

BUSINESS SUMMARY
Abbott Laboratories manufactures and sells health care products worldwide. The company’s Pharmaceutical Products segment offers adult and pediatric pharmaceuticals for rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, psoriasis, Crohn's disease, dyslipidemia, HIV infection, hypothyroidism, advanced prostate cancer, endometriosis and central precocious puberty, anemia caused by uterine fibroids, obesity, epilepsy and bipolar disorder, migraines, and secondary hyperparathyroidism; and provides anesthesia products and anti-infectives. Its Diagnostic Products segment offers immunoassay systems; chemistry systems; assays used for screening and/or diagnosis for drugs of abuse, cancer, therapeutic drug monitoring, fertility, physiological diseases, and infectious diseases; instruments that automate the extraction, purification, and preparation of DNA and RNA from patient samples, and detect and measure infections agents; genomic-based tests; hematology systems and reagents; and point-of-care diagnostic systems and tests for blood analysis. The company’s Nutritional Products segment provides various forms of prepared infant formula and follow-on formula, adult and other pediatric nutritional products, nutritional products used in enteral feeding in health care institutions, and bars and nutritional brands. Its Vascular Products segment offers coronary, endovascular, and vessel closure devices, such as drug-eluting coronary stent systems, coronary metallic stents, balloon dilatation products, coronary guidewires, vessel closure devices, and carotid stent systems to treat vascular disease. Abbott serves wholesalers, government agencies, health care facilities, specialty pharmacies, independent retailers, hospitals, clinics, physicians' offices, blood banks, commercial laboratories, alternate-care testing sites, plasma protein therapeutic companies, and third-party distributors. The company was founded in 1888 and is based in Abbott Park, Illinois.
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    OFFICERS
      Pay Exercised
    Mr. Miles D. White , 54
    Chairman, Chief Exec. Officer and Chairman of Exec. Committee
    N/A N/A
    Mr. Thomas C. Freyman , 56
    Chief Financial Officer and Exec. VP of Fin.
    N/A N/A
    Ms. Laura J. Schumacher , 46
    Exec. VP, Sec. and Gen. Counsel
    $ 1.76M $ 588.00K
    Dr. John M. Capek Ph.D., 48
    Exec. VP of Medical Devices
    $ 1.36M $ 0
    Mr. Thomas F. Chen , 60
    Sr. VP of International Nutrition
    N/A N/A
    Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-08 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc. "Exercised" is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year.
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