Dade Behring was a company which manufactured testing machinery and supplies for the medical diagnostics industry, based in Deerfield, Illinois and Glasgow, Delaware (formerly a DuPont site).
[2] Dade Behring was born from the merger of Behring Diagnostics and Deerfield, Illinois-based[1] Dade International, a private, independent company created by a group of investors led by Bain Capital[3] who had bought Baxter International's diagnostics unit for over $440 million, in late 1994.
The combined operations of the two companies reached sales of $1.2 billion and employed a workforce of 6,400 worldwide.
[4] In April 1999, Reid-Anderson was promoted to the role of president and chief operating officer and then CEO in September 2000.
With 2006 revenue of more than $1.7 billion, Dade Behring was the world's largest company solely dedicated to clinical diagnostics, as opposed to competitors like Abbott and Roche, whose operations covered other markets including the pharmaceutical industry.