10-K 1 d10k.htm FORM 10-K Form 10-K
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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

 

Form 10-K

(Mark One)

þ ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the fiscal year ended January 2, 2011

or

¨ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from              to             

Commission file number 001-5075

 

PerkinElmer, Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Massachusetts   04-2052042

(State or other jurisdiction of

incorporation or organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

940 Winter Street, Waltham, Massachusetts   02451
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code): (781) 663-6900

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of Each Class

 

Name of Each Exchange on Which Registered

Common Stock, $1 Par Value

  New York Stock Exchange

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.        Yes þ        No ¨

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.        Yes ¨        No þ

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.        Yes þ        No ¨

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).        Yes þ        No ¨

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.        þ

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer þ   Accelerated filer ¨   Non-accelerated filer ¨     Smaller reporting company ¨
   

(Do not check if a smaller

reporting company)

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).        Yes ¨        No þ

The aggregate market value of the common stock, $1 par value per share, held by non-affiliates of the registrant on July 2, 2010, was $2,294,406,705 based upon the last reported sale of $19.65 per share of common stock on July 2, 2010.

As of February 24, 2011, there were outstanding 113,379,810 shares of common stock, $1 par value per share.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Portions of PerkinElmer, Inc.’s Definitive Proxy Statement for its Annual Meeting of Shareholders to be held on April 26, 2011 are incorporated by reference into Part III of this Form 10-K.

 

 


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

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PART I

  

Item 1.

   Business      3   

Item 1A.

   Risk Factors      15   

Item 1B.

   Unresolved Staff Comments      22   

Item 2.

   Properties      22   

Item 3.

   Legal Proceedings      23   

Item 4.

   Reserved      23   

PART II

  

Item 5.

   Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities      26   

Item 6.

   Selected Financial Data      29   

Item 7.

   Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations      32   

Item 7A.

   Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk      59   

Item 8.

   Financial Statements and Supplemental Data      62   

Item 9.

   Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure      118   

Item 9A.

   Controls and Procedures      118   

Item 9B.

   Other Information      121   

PART III

  

Item 10.

   Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance      122   

Item 11.

   Executive Compensation      122   

Item 12.

   Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters      122   

Item 13.

   Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence      122   

Item 14.

   Principal Accountant Fees and Services      123   

PART IV

  

Item 15.

   Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules      124   

Signatures

     130   

 

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PART I

 

Item 1.    Business

 

Overview

 

We are a leading provider of technology, services and solutions to the diagnostics, research, environmental and safety, industrial and laboratory services markets. Through our advanced technologies, solutions, and services, we address critical issues that help to improve the health and safety of people and their environment.

 

We are a Massachusetts corporation, founded in 1947. Our headquarters are in Waltham, Massachusetts, and we market our products and services in more than 150 countries. As of January 2, 2011, we employed approximately 6,200 employees in our continuing operations. Our common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “PKI” and we are a component of the S&P 500 Index.

 

We maintain a website with the address http://www.perkinelmer.com. We are not including the information contained in our website as part of, or incorporating it by reference into, this annual report on Form 10-K. We make available free of charge through our website our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and amendments to these reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file these materials with, or otherwise furnish them to, the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

Our Strategy

 

Our strategy is to provide innovative products, solutions and services that drive productivity improvements in targeted high growth market segments and to develop value-added applications and solutions to foster further development and expansion of the markets we serve. To execute on our strategy and drive higher revenue growth, we focus on broadening our product and service offerings through the acquisition of innovative technology and expenditures for research and development. Our strategy includes:

 

   

Achieving significant growth in both of our core business segments, Human Health and Environmental Health, through strategic acquisitions and licensing;

 

   

Accelerating innovation through both internal research and development and third-party collaborations and alliances;

 

   

Strengthening our position within key markets, by expanding our product and service offerings and maintaining superior product quality;

 

   

Utilizing our share repurchase programs to help drive shareholder value; and

 

   

Attracting, retaining and developing talented and motivated employees.

 

Recent Developments

 

As part of our strategy to grow our core businesses, we have recently acquired the following businesses:

 

Business Combinations and Asset Purchases:

 

Acquisition of chemagen Biopolymer-Technologie AG. In February 2011, we acquired all of the outstanding stock of chemagen Biopolymer-Technologie AG (“chemagen”). chemagen manufactures and sells nucleic acid sample preparation systems and reagents utilizing M-PVA magnetic bead technology. We expect this acquisition to enhance our genetic screening business by expanding our product offerings to diagnostics, academic and industrial end markets. We paid the shareholders of chemagen approximately $35.0 million in cash at the closing for the stock of chemagen, plus potential additional consideration of up to $20.3 million. The purchase price is also subject to potential adjustments for chemagen’s indebtedness, working capital as of the closing date, and indemnification obligations of chemagen’s equity holders. We expect to report the operations for this acquisition within the results of our Human Health segment from the acquisition date.

 

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Acquisition of VisEn Medical Inc. In July 2010, we acquired all of the outstanding stock of VisEn Medical Inc. (“VisEn”). VisEn is an in vivo molecular imaging technology company. We expect this acquisition to enhance our cellular imaging business by expanding our technologies and capabilities into preclinical research undertaken in academic institutes and pharmaceutical companies. We paid the equity holders of VisEn $23.0 million in cash for the stock of VisEn, of which $18.2 million was paid at closing and an additional amount of $4.8 million is held in an escrow account to secure potential adjustments for VisEn’s indebtedness, working capital as of the closing date, and indemnification obligations of VisEn’s equity holders. During the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2010, we finalized the purchase price and related allocation resulting in an increase in deferred tax assets, included in long-term liabilities, of $8.5 million and a decrease in goodwill of $8.5 million. We have reported the operations for this acquisition within the results of our Human Health segment from the acquisition date.

 

Acquisition of Signature Genomic Laboratories, LLC. In May 2010, we acquired all of the outstanding stock of SGL Newco, Inc., the parent company of Signature Genomic Laboratories, LLC (“Signature Genomic”). Signature Genomic is a provider of diagnostic cytogenetic testing of chromosome abnormalities in individuals with unexplained physical and developmental disabilities. We expect this acquisition to expand our existing genetic testing business and expand our position in early detection of disease, specifically in the molecular diagnostics market. We paid the equity holders of Signature Genomic $90.0 million in cash, of which $77.5 million was paid at closing and an additional amount of $12.5 million is held in an escrow account to secure certain adjustments for Signature Genomic’s indebtedness, working capital as of the closing date, and indemnification obligations of Signature Genomic’s equity holders. We have reported the operations for this acquisition within the results of our Human Health segment from the acquisition date.

 

Acquisition of Remaining Interest in the Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Joint Venture. In May 2010, we acquired the remaining fifty percent equity interest in our joint venture (the “ICPMS Joint Venture”) with the company previously known as MDS, Inc. for the development and manufacturing of our Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (“ICPMS”) product line and other related tangible assets from DH Technologies Development Pte Ltd., a subsidiary of Danaher Corporation (“Danaher”). We expect this acquisition will help support the continued success of the premier ICPMS product line by allowing us to direct development with a dedicated and consistent approach. The fair value of the acquisition was $67.7 million, including cash consideration of $35.0 million, non-cash consideration of $2.6 million for certain non-exclusive rights to intangible assets we own, and $30.4 million representing the fair value of our fifty percent equity interest in the ICPMS Joint Venture held prior to the acquisition. We recognized a pre-tax gain of $25.6 million from the re-measurement to fair value of our previously held equity interest in the ICPMS Joint Venture. This pre-tax gain is reported in interest and other (income) expense, net, for fiscal year 2010. We have reported the operations for this acquisition within the results of our Environmental Health segment from the acquisition date.

 

We recently took the following additional actions to further strengthen our core businesses:

 

Restructuring:

 

During fiscal year 2010, we incurred a $12.6 million pre-tax restructuring charge in the Human Health segment related to a workforce reduction from reorganization activities and the closure of excess facility space. We also recognized an $11.6 million pre-tax restructuring charge in the Environmental Health segment related to a workforce reduction from reorganization activities and the closure of excess facility space. Our management approved these plans principally to shift resources to higher growth geographic regions and end markets and to reduce resources in response to the continued economic downturn and its impact on demand in certain other end markets. The restructuring costs for the closure of excess facility space were offset by the recognition of a $3.0 million gain that had been deferred from a previous sales-leaseback transaction on this facility. We also recorded a pre-tax restructuring reversal of $2.3 million relating to our previous restructuring plans due to lower than expected costs associated with workforce reductions in Europe within both the Human Health and Environmental Health segments. The pre-tax restructuring activity associated with these plans has been reported as restructuring

 

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expenses and is included as a component of operating expenses from continuing operations. We expect the impact of immediate cost savings from these restructuring plans on operating results and cash flows to approximately offset the increased spending in higher growth regions and the decline in revenue from certain products, respectively. We expect the impact of future cost savings from these restructuring activities on operating results and cash flows to be negligible, as we will incur offsetting costs.

 

Discontinued Operations:

 

Divestiture of Illumination and Detection Solutions Business. In November 2010, we sold our Illumination and Detection Solutions (“IDS”) business, which was included in our Environmental Health segment, for approximately $500.0 million, $482.0 million net of payments for acquired cash balances, subject to an adjustment for working capital as of the closing date. We expect the divestiture of our IDS business to reduce the complexity of our product offerings and organizational structure, and to provide capital to reinvest in other Human Health and Environmental Health end markets. The buyer acquired our IDS business through the purchase of all outstanding stock of certain of our subsidiaries located in Germany, Canada, China, Indonesia, the Philippines, the United Kingdom and the United States as well as the purchase of related assets and the assumption of liabilities held by us and certain of our subsidiaries located in Singapore and Germany. We recognized a pre-tax gain of $315.3 million, inclusive of the net working capital adjustment, in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2010 as a result of the sale of our IDS business. The gain was recognized as a gain on the disposition of discontinued operations.

 

Divestiture of Photoflash Business. In June 2010, we sold our Photoflash business for approximately $13.5 million, including a net working capital adjustment, plus potential additional consideration. We recognized a pre-tax gain of $4.4 million, inclusive of the net working capital adjustment, in fiscal year 2010 as a result of the sale. The gain was recognized as a gain on the disposition of discontinued operations.

 

As part of our ongoing business strategy, we also took the following action:

 

Share Repurchase Program:

 

On October 23, 2008, we announced that our Board of Directors (our “Board”) authorized us to repurchase up to 10.0 million shares of common stock under a stock repurchase program (the “Repurchase Program”). On August 31, 2010, we announced that our Board had authorized us to repurchase an additional 5.0 million shares of common stock under the Repurchase Program. The Repurchase Program will expire on October 22, 2012 unless terminated earlier by our Board, and may be suspended or discontinued at any time. During fiscal year 2008, we repurchased approximately 1.0 million shares of common stock in the open market at an aggregate cost of $18.0 million, including commissions, under the Repurchase Program. During fiscal year 2009, we repurchased approximately 1.0 million shares of common stock in the open market at an aggregate cost of $14.2 million, including commissions, under the Repurchase Program. During fiscal year 2010, we repurchased approximately 3.0 million shares of common stock in the open market at an aggregate cost of $71.5 million, including commissions, under the Repurchase Program. As of January 2, 2011, approximately 10.0 million shares of our common stock remained available for repurchase from the 15.0 million shares authorized by our Board under the Repurchase Program. From January 3, 2011 through February 24, 2011, we repurchased approximately 3.0 million shares of common stock in the open market at an aggregate cost of $80.6 million, including commissions, under the Repurchase Program.

 

Business Segments and Products

 

We report our business in two segments: Human Health and Environmental Health. We performed our annual impairment testing on January 4, 2010, the annual impairment date for our reporting units, and based on the first step of the impairment process (the comparison of the fair value to the carrying value of the reporting unit to determine if the carrying value exceeds the fair value), we concluded that there was no goodwill impairment.

 

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Human Health Segment

 

Our Human Health segment concentrates on developing diagnostics, tools and applications to help detect diseases earlier and more accurately and to accelerate the discovery and development of critical new therapies. Within the Human Health segment, we serve both the diagnostics and research markets. Our Human Health segment generated sales of $796.3 million in fiscal year 2010.

 

Diagnostics Market:

 

We provide early detection for genetic disorders from pre-conception to early childhood, as well as digital x-ray flat panel detectors for the diagnostics market. Our screening products are designed to provide early and accurate insights into the health of expectant mothers during pregnancy and into the health of their newborns. Our instruments, reagents and software test and screen for disorders and diseases, including Down syndrome, infertility, anemia and diabetes. Our digital x-ray flat panel detectors are used by physicians to make faster and more accurate diagnoses of conditions ranging from broken bones to reduced blood flow in vascular systems. In addition, our digital x-ray flat panel detectors improve oncology treatments by focusing radiation directly at tumors.

 

Research Market:

 

In the research market, we provide a broad suite of solutions including reagents, liquid handling and detection technologies that enable researchers to improve the drug discovery process. These applications, solutions and services enable pharmaceutical companies to create better therapeutics by helping to bring such products to market faster and more efficiently. Our research portfolio includes a wide range of systems consisting of instrumentation for automation and detection solutions, cellular imaging and analysis hardware and software, and a portfolio of consumables products, including drug discovery and research reagents. We sell our research solutions to pharmaceutical, biotechnology and academic research customers globally.

 

Principal Products:

 

Our principal products for Human Health applications include:

 

Diagnostics:

 

   

The DELFIA® Xpress screening platform is a complete solution for prenatal screening, including a fast, continuous loading system supported by kits for both first and second trimester analyses, and clinically validated LifeCycle™ software.

 

   

The NeoGram™ MS/MS AAAC in vitro diagnostic kit is used to support detection of metabolic disorders in newborns by tandem mass spectrometry.

 

   

The Ultra-Screen® screening protocol is used to provide a first trimester prenatal screening service by combining ultrasound measurement of the fluid accumulation behind the neck of the fetus with maternal serum markers. It is designed to assess patient-specific risk for Down syndrome, trisomy 18 and other chromosomal abnormalities.

 

   

The Spectral Genomics array comparative genomic hybridization service provides gene expression validation, molecular karyotyping and genome profiling.

 

   

The GSP® Neonatal hTSH, 17µ-OHP, GALT and IRT kits are used for screening congenital neonatal conditions from a drop of blood.

 

   

The NeoBase Non-derivatized MSMS kit analyzes newborn blood samples for measurement of amino acids and analytes for specific disease states.

 

   

The child health system steroid profiling kit and data suite software is the first commercial clinical endocrinology assay that can simultaneously measure ten different steroids in biological samples.

 

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BACs-on-Beads™ (“BoBs™”) technology rapidly and cost effectively detects chromosomal abnormalities.

 

   

The amorphous silicon digital x-ray flat panel detectors contain an enabling technology for digital x-ray imaging that replaces film and produces improved image resolution and diagnostic capability in applications such as radiography, cardiology, angiography and cancer treatments.

 

Research:

 

   

The radiometric detection solutions, including over 1,100 NEN® radiochemicals, the Tri-carb® and MicroBeta2® families of liquid scintillation counters, which are used for beta, gamma and luminescence counting in microplate formats, are utilized in research, environmental and drug discovery applications.

 

   

The Columbus™ data management system archives, manages, retrieves and protects images and analyzes results. The Columbus™ software, which is part of that system, is a flexible, convenient solution for high-volume image storage and management.

 

   

The Opera® and Operetta® confocal microplate imaging reader enables high content screening and automated image analysis for cell-based assays, providing reliable and meaningful results for decision making to drug discovery and basic cellular science research laboratories.

 

   

The UltraVIEW® VoX 3D™ live cell imaging system is a high-resolution, high speed, confocal imaging system that allows for the observation and measurement of cellular and molecular processes in real time.

 

   

The Volocity® high performance imaging software suite is a solution for 3D and 4D cellular image acquisition and analysis. Volocity® software allows data visualization, publication, restoration, volumetric measurement and analysis. Using Volocity® software, cell images can be directly acquired or the data seamlessly imported from a diverse range of fluorescence microscopy systems.

 

   

The EnVision® multi-label reader can be used in a wide range of high-throughput screening applications, including those utilizing AlphaLISA® and/or AlphaScreen® technology, and features two detectors (enabling simultaneous dual wavelength reading), below emission reading, barcode readers, a high speed laser and flash lamp light sources, and adjustment of measurement height function.

 

   

The JANUS® Automated Workstation, an automation and liquid handling system, is designed for the efficient automation of sample preparation procedures utilized in pharmaceutical, biotech, and research applications.

 

   

The cell::explorer™ and plate::handler™ automated workstations allow integration of multiple laboratory instrumentation using a centralized robotic interface, allowing higher throughput and turnkey-application focused solutions.

 

   

Over 100 patented no-wash AlphaLISA® high-sensitivity assay kits provide for the detection of a broad range of small biomolecular to large protein complexes in a variety of sample types including serum, plasma, cell lysates and cell supernatants.

 

   

A wide range of homogeneous biochemical and cellular assay reagents are used for the major drug discovery targets such as G-protein coupled receptors, kinases and epigenetic modification enzymes.

 

   

Proprietary LANCE® Ultra assay platform is validated for over 300 kinases.

 

   

Over 60 validated AlphaScreen® SureFire® kits are designed for homogeneous detection of cellular phosphorylation events.

 

   

A broad portfolio of recombinant G protein-coupled receptors (“GPCR”) and Ion Channel cell lines includes over 300 products and 120 ready-to use frozen cell lines for a wide range of disease areas.

 

   

TSA™ Plus biotin kits can increase sensitivity of histochemistry and cytochemistry as much as 10 to 20 times.

 

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The EnSpire™ multimodal plate reader is compatible with high performance Alpha, quad-monochromators for fluorescence intensity and absorbance, ultra-sensitive luminescence and temperature control, delivers high performance detection and easy-to-use software in an affordable platform, and is designed to be adaptable for any size laboratory.

 

   

Western BLAST™ kits, a novel approach to chromogenic Western Blotting, amplify signal and yield sensitivity comparable to chemiluminescent techniques.

 

   

3H and 14C Catalog Radiochemicals, Scintillation Proximity Assay reagents and CytoStar-T® plate assets, were acquired from GE Healthcare. This asset acquisition plus our novel 3H and 125I radiochemicals, increased our portfolio to over 1,100 NEN® radiochemicals.

 

New Products:

 

Significant new products introduced or acquired for Human Health applications in fiscal year 2010 include:

 

Diagnostics:

 

   

The DELFIA® Xpress PlGF assay, a new part of our DELFIA® Xpress System, is designed to help clinicians screen pregnant women for early-onset pre-eclampsia during their first trimester of pregnancy.

 

   

The prenatal BoBs™ in vitro diagnostic (“IVD”) assay for rapid prenatal testing of multiple genetic diseases, for use in the European Union is the first IVD product from the BoBs™ proprietary multiplexed bead-based technology product family.

 

   

Through the acquisition of Signature Genomic, Signature’s microarray diagnostic technology is offered for both pre-natal and post-natal identification of DNA alterations associated with genetic disease.

 

   

New imaging sub-systems for cancer treatment are available through our joint development and marketing agreement with LinaTech.

 

   

The new XRD 0822 and XRD 1622 digital x-ray flat panel detectors provide non-destructive testing applications including pipeline inspection, film replacement, manufacturing inspection, 3D Cone Beam Ct and PCB inspection.

 

Research:

 

   

Our first panel of homogeneous assays for detecting epigenetic histone modifications, is based on our proprietary Alpha and LANCE® Ultra platforms.

 

   

A new version of Columbus™ Image data management and analysis software is now available; Columbus Scope™ software suite is designed for microscopy labs providing an affordable, ready-to-go solution for managing the large volumes of data that cellular imaging experiments generate over time.

 

   

Volocity® 5.4 software added support for a range of new file formats opening our 3D analysis software to even more scientists producing fluorescence images. Enhancements to the acquisition software improve the speed of the UltraVIEW® VoX™ and improvements to 3D stitching application are designed to enable accurate 3D analysis of large specimens in applications including developmental biology, cancer biology and neurobiology.

 

   

The Columbus™ 2.0 image data management software platform is a new edition of our flagship HCS data management software for cellular imaging and analysis. The Western lighting™ ultra chemiluminescent substrate kit is designed for demanding applications for measuring post-translational modifications of weakly expressed proteins.

 

   

The LANCE® Ultra cAMP detection kit facilitates screening of complex G-protein coupled receptors for therapeutic research.

 

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Twelve new cell lines and 72 frozen cells have been added to our portfolio. We provide the largest collection of validated cell lines for GPCR research and high throughput screening (“HTS”)-friendly cellular testing for agonist and antagonist pharmacology.

 

   

Our AlphaLISA® “No-Wash” research products were expanded with the introduction of 28 new highly sensitive cell signaling pathway and biomarker research assay kits that provide researchers with additional data to help advance the study of diseases including cancer, inflammatory and neurodegenerative disorders.

 

   

The in vivo fluorescence agent portfolio and fluorescence molecular tomographic (“FMT”) imaging systems acquired through our purchase of VisEn provide true quantitative imaging data that can be useful for identifying and characterizing a range of disease biomarkers and therapeutic efficacy in animal models.

 

   

The Western Lighting™ Ultra chemiluminescent kits were designed for measuring post-translational modifications of weakly expressed proteins. With sensitivity, a wide range and stable signal, this kit helps reduce the use of primary antibodies by tenfold, providing more information from smaller samples for faster and more economical research outcomes.

 

   

Volocity® Demo™, a fully functional free version of our award-winning Volocity® 3D image analysis software, was released to allow researchers to evaluate the software’s analysis capabilities in their own time for an unlimited period.

 

   

Expanding our small robotic portfolio with the addition of three new plate::handler™ workstations allow customers access to robotic automation capabilities with a compact footprint and more affordable price.

 

   

New stacker and dispenser options for EnSpire™ give customers even more flexibility and better performance in a variety of key assays. The dispenser allows volumes as low as 1µl to be dispensed, making it ideal for assay miniaturization. It also features cell dispensing capabilities and is well designed for multi-user environments.

 

   

WinPREP® 4.7 with the new JANUS® Application Assistant was launched to provide a new user interface, enhanced application support and more validated protocols for better integration with third-party devices and our other laboratory instruments such as the EnSpire™ Multimode Plate Reader and compatible dispensers and stackers.

 

Brand Names:

 

Our Human Health segment offers additional products under various brand names, including AlphaLISA®, AlphaScreen®, AutoDELFIA®, Envision®, Evolution™, Genoglyphix®, JANUS®, LANCE®, LifeCycle™, NEN®, MultiPROBE®, NTD Labs®, Opera®, Packard®, ScanArray™, Specimen Gate™, ViaCord®, VICTOR™, Wizard®, and XRD amorphous silicon FPDs™.

 

Environmental Health Segment

 

Our Environmental Health segment provides technologies and applications to facilitate the creation of safer food and consumer products, more secure surroundings and efficient energy resources. The Environmental Health segment serves the environmental and safety, industrial and laboratory services markets. Our Environmental Health segment generated sales of $908.0 million in fiscal year 2010.

 

Environmental and Safety Markets:

 

For the environmental and safety markets, we provide analytical technologies that address the quality of our environment, sustainable energy development, and help ensure safer food and consumer products.

 

Our technologies are used to detect and help reduce the impact products and industrial processes may have on our environment. For example, our water quality solutions help ensure the purity of the world’s water supply by detecting harmful substances, such as trace metal, organic, pesticide, chemical and radioactive contaminants.

 

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Through the products, training, support and service offerings of our EcoAnalytix™ initiative, we deliver systems that combine applications, methodologies, standard operating procedures and training for the specific analyses required.

 

We provide a variety of solutions that detect the presence of potentially dangerous materials, including lead and phthalates, in toys and other consumer products to help ensure their safety for use or consumption. Our solutions are also used to identify and prevent counterfeiting of medicine and other goods. Our methods and analyses are transferable throughout the supply chain so our customers keep pace with industry and international regulations and certifications.

 

Industrial Market:

 

We provide analytical instrumentation and digital x-ray detectors for the industrial market which includes the semiconductor, chemical, petrochemical, lubricant, construction, office equipment and quality assurance industries.

 

Laboratory Services Market:

 

We have over 1,350 service engineers to support our customers throughout the world and to help them improve the productivity of their labs. Our OneSource® service business strategy is aligned with customer’s needs to consolidate laboratory services and improve efficiencies within their labs.

 

Principal Products:

 

Our principal products for Environmental Health applications include:

 

   

The Clarus® series of gas chromatographs, gas chromatographs/mass spectrometers and the TurboMatrix™ family of sample-handling equipment are used for compound identification and quantization in the environmental, forensics, food and beverage, hydrocarbon processing/biofuels, materials testing, pharmaceutical and semiconductor industries.

 

   

The atomic spectroscopy family of instruments, including the AAnalyst™ series of atomic absorption spectrometers, the Optima™ family of inductively coupled plasma (“ICP”) optical emission spectrometers and the NexION® family of ICP mass spectrometers, are used in the environmental and chemical industries, among others, to determine the elemental content of a sample.

 

   

The Raman spectroscopy instruments provide laboratories with the ability to analyze solids, liquids, powders, gels, slurries and aqueous solutions in bulk or to address variations in sample distribution with imaging. The technology applies to a wide range of sectors including pharmaceuticals, industrial, forensics and academia and permits automatic high throughput screening of materials such as foods and pharmaceuticals.

 

   

The DMA 8000, a thermal analysis system, is used by scientists in the polymers, composites, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage industries for applications ranging from simple quality control to advanced research.

 

   

The Spectrum™ high performance Fourier transform infrared and Fourier transform near-infrared spectrometers provide a wide range of capabilities for infrared analysis in pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, polymers, plastics and many other industries.

 

   

The Flexar™ liquid chromatography platform, which is controlled by the new Chromera® chromatography data system, incorporates a new ergonomic industrial design to deliver a wide range of pressure and detector options to address the application needs of high pressure liquid chromatography laboratories. These systems are used to identify and quantify compounds for applications in the environmental, food, beverage, and pharmaceutical industries.

 

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The DSC 8000 and 8500 feature a second generation, power controlled double furnace designed to provide fast heating and cooling rates required to accurately understand how materials behave under different conditions.

 

   

LABWORKS™ 6.2 delivers a laboratory information management system with a zero footprint Web client, which can be effectively deployed with minimal user training and is designed to consistently perform on a wide variety of Web browsers.

 

New Products:

 

New products introduced or acquired for Environmental Health applications in fiscal year 2010 include:

 

   

The Flexar™ SQ 300 MS Single-Quad LC/MS detection system enables efficient and reliable ionization of compounds in both positive and negative modes for the efficient analysis of a broad range of analytes.

 

   

The NexION® 300 inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer, with patented Universal Cell Technology™, allow analysts to choose the most appropriate technique for a specific sample or application, maximizing productivity without compromising sensitivity or performance.

 

   

The Atomax™ line of 1.5 inch hollow cathode lamps are designed as high quality lighting sources that can be used with any 1.5 inch format commercial atomic absorption spectrometer.

 

   

The Velocity series capillary GC columns are fused silica columns designed for standard laboratory applications on the Clarus® GC and any other commercial GC instrument. The columns provide a combination of efficiency, performance and price and are used in the environmental, petrochemical, food and pharmaceutical industries.

 

Brand Names:

 

Our Environmental Health segment offers additional products under various brand names, including Chromera™, EcoAnalytix®, HyperDSC®, LAMBDA™, LABWORKS™, OneSource®, and Spectrum™.

 

Marketing

 

All of our businesses market their products and services directly through their own specialized sales forces. As of January 2, 2011, we employed approximately 3,000 sales and service representatives operating in approximately 35 countries and marketing products and services in more than 150 countries. In geographic regions where we do not have a sales and service presence, we utilize distributors to sell our products.

 

Raw Materials, Key Components and Supplies

 

Each of our businesses uses a wide variety of raw materials, key components and supplies that are generally available from alternate sources of supply and in adequate quantities from domestic and foreign sources. We generally have multi-year contracts, with no minimum purchase requirements, with certain of our suppliers. For certain critical raw materials, key components and supplies required for the production of some of our principal products, we have qualified only a limited or a single source of supply. We periodically purchase quantities of some of these critical raw materials in excess of current requirements, in anticipation of future manufacturing needs. With sufficient lead times, we believe we would be able to qualify alternative suppliers for each of these raw materials and key components. See the applicable risk factor in “Item 1A. Risk Factors” for an additional description of this issue.

 

Intellectual Property

 

We own numerous United States and foreign patents and have patent applications pending in the United States and abroad. We also license intellectual property rights to and from third parties, some of which bear

 

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royalties and are terminable in specified circumstances. In addition to our patent portfolio, we possess a wide array of unpatented proprietary technology and know-how. We also own numerous United States and foreign trademarks and trade names for a variety of our product names, and have applications for the registration of trademarks and trade names pending in the United States and abroad. We believe that patents and other proprietary rights are important to the development of both of our reporting segments, but we also rely upon trade secrets, know-how, continuing technological innovations and licensing opportunities to develop and maintain the competitive position of both of our reporting segments. We do not believe that the loss of any one patent or other proprietary right would have a material adverse effect on our overall business or on any of our reporting segments.

 

In some cases, we may participate in litigation or other proceedings to defend against or assert claims of infringement, to enforce our patents or our licensors’ patents, to protect our trade secrets, know-how or other intellectual property rights, or to determine the scope and validity of our or third parties’ intellectual property rights. Litigation of this type could result in substantial cost to us and diversion of our resources. An adverse outcome in any litigation or proceeding could subject us to significant liabilities or expenses, require us to cease using disputed intellectual property or cease the sale of a product, or require us to license the disputed intellectual property from third parties. We are currently involved in several lawsuits involving claims of violation of intellectual property rights. See “Item 3. Legal Proceedings” for a discussion of these matters.

 

Backlog

 

We believe that backlog is not a meaningful indicator of future business prospects for either of our business segments due to the short lead time required on a majority of our sales. Therefore, we believe that backlog information is not material to an understanding of our business.

 

Competition

 

Due to the wide range of our products and services, we face many different types of competition and competitors. This affects our ability to sell our products and services and the prices at which these products and services are sold. Our competitors range from large foreign and domestic organizations, which produce a comprehensive array of goods and services and that may have greater financial and other resources than we do, to small firms producing a limited number of goods or services for specialized market segments.

 

We compete on the basis of service level, price, technological innovation, operational efficiency, product differentiation, product availability, quality and reliability. Competitors range from multinational organizations with a wide range of products to specialized firms that in some cases have well-established market niches. We expect the proportion of large competitors to increase through the continued consolidation of competitors.

 

We believe we compete effectively in each of the areas in which our businesses experience competition.

 

Research and Development

 

Research and development expenditures were approximately $95.4 million during fiscal year 2010, approximately $90.8 million during fiscal year 2009, and approximately $93.0 million during fiscal year 2008.

 

We directed our research and development efforts in fiscal years 2010, 2009 and 2008 primarily toward the diagnostics and research markets within our Human Health segment, and the environmental and safety, industrial and laboratory services markets within our Environmental Health segment, in order to help accelerate our growth initiatives. We expect to continue our strong investments in research and development to drive growth during fiscal year 2011, and to continue to emphasize the diagnostics and research markets within our Human Health segment, and the environmental and safety, industrial and laboratory services markets within our Environmental Health segment.

 

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Environmental Matters

 

Our operations are subject to various foreign, federal, state and local environmental and safety laws and regulations. These requirements include those governing uses, emissions and discharges of hazardous substances, the remediation of contaminated soil and groundwater, the regulation of radioactive materials, and the health and safety of our employees.

 

We may have liability under the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act and comparable state statutes that impose liability for investigation and remediation of contamination without regard to fault, in connection with materials that we or our former businesses sent to various third-party sites. We have incurred, and expect to incur, costs pursuant to these statutes.

 

We are conducting a number of environmental investigations and remedial actions at our current and former locations and, along with other companies, have been named a potentially responsible party (“PRP”) for certain waste disposal sites. We accrue for environmental issues in the accounting period that our responsibility is established and when the cost can be reasonably estimated. We have accrued $6.0 million as of January 2, 2011, which represents our management’s estimate of the total cost of ultimate disposition of known environmental matters. This amount is not discounted and does not reflect the recovery of any amounts through insurance or indemnification arrangements. These cost estimates are subject to a number of variables, including the stage of the environmental investigations, the magnitude of the possible contamination, the nature of the potential remedies, possible joint and several liability, the time period over which remediation may occur, and the possible effects of changing laws and regulations. For sites where we have been named a PRP, our management does not currently anticipate any additional liability to result from the inability of other significant named parties to contribute. We expect that the majority of such accrued amounts could be paid out over a period of up to ten years. As assessment and remediation activities progress at each individual site, these liabilities are reviewed and adjusted to reflect additional information as it becomes available. There have been no environmental problems to date that have had, or are expected to have, a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial statements. While it is possible that a loss exceeding the amounts recorded in the consolidated financial statements may be incurred, the potential exposure is not expected to be materially different from those amounts recorded.

 

In addition, during the second quarter of fiscal year 2007, we settled an insurance claim resulting from a fire that occurred at our facility in Boston, Massachusetts in March 2005. We accrued $9.7 million representing our management’s estimate of the total cost for decommissioning the building, including environmental matters, which was damaged in the fire. We paid $2.5 million during fiscal year 2009, $1.6 million during fiscal year 2008 and $3.9 million during fiscal year 2007 towards decommissioning the building. We sold the building on April 27, 2010. Net proceeds from the sale were $11.0 million, and we recorded a pre-tax gain of $3.4 million in operating income.

 

We may become subject to new or unforeseen environmental costs or liabilities. Compliance with new or more stringent laws or regulations, stricter interpretations of existing laws, or the discovery of new contamination could cause us to incur additional costs.

 

Employees

 

As of January 2, 2011, we employed approximately 6,200 employees in our continuing operations, compared to employing approximately 8,200 employees in our continuing operations one year earlier. The primary reason for the decrease in the number of our employees is due to the sale of our IDS business, which was partially offset by investments in higher growth geographic regions. Several of our subsidiaries are parties to contracts with labor unions and workers’ councils. As of January 2, 2011, we employed an aggregate of approximately 800 union and workers’ council employees. We consider our relations with employees to be satisfactory.

 

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Financial Information About Reporting Segments

 

The expenses for our corporate headquarters, such as legal, tax, audit, human resources, information technology, and other management and compliance costs, have been included as “Corporate” below. We have a process to allocate and recharge expenses to the reportable segments when such costs are administered or paid by the corporate headquarters based on the extent to which the segment benefited from the expenses. These amounts have been calculated in a consistent manner and are included in our calculations of segment results to internally plan and assess the performance of each segment for all purposes, including determining the compensation of the business leaders for each of our operating segments.

 

The table below sets forth sales and operating income (loss) by reporting segment for fiscal years 2010, 2009 and 2008:

 

     2010     2009     2008  
     (In thousands)  

Human Health

      

Sales

   $ 796,310      $ 731,649      $ 768,659   

Operating income from continuing operations

     96,474        80,581        79,743   

Environmental Health

      

Sales

     908,036        819,117        891,009   

Operating income from continuing operations

     92,295        75,518        106,153   

Corporate

      

Operating loss from continuing operations

     (35,168     (34,177     (38,269

Continuing Operations

      

Sales

   $ 1,704,346      $ 1,550,766      $ 1,659,668   

Operating income from continuing operations

     153,601        121,922        147,627   

Interest and other (income) expense, net (see Note 5)

     (8,383     15,787        44,039   
                        

Income from continuing operations before income taxes

   $ 161,984      $ 106,135      $ 103,588   
                        

 

Discontinued operations have not been included in the preceding table.

 

Additional information relating to our reporting segments for fiscal years 2010, 2009 and 2008 is as follows:

 

     Depreciation and Amortization
Expense
     Capital Expenditures  
     2010      2009      2008      2010      2009      2008  
     (In thousands)      (In thousands)  

Human Health

   $ 61,346       $ 54,287       $ 52,614       $ 17,341       $ 17,945       $ 20,313   

Environmental Health

     26,284         24,272         23,212         15,005         5,684         11,755   

Corporate

     1,533         2,203         1,550         1,300         1,887         3,201   
                                                     

Continuing operations

   $ 89,163       $ 80,762       $ 77,376       $ 33,646       $ 25,516       $ 35,269   
                                                     

Discontinued operations

   $ 10,177       $ 12,377       $ 16,381       $ 9,090       $ 7,073       $ 10,135   
                                                     

 

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     Total Assets  
     January 2,
2011
     January 3,
2010
 
     (In thousands)  

Human Health

   $ 1,772,695       $ 1,656,462   

Environmental Health

     1,376,248         1,164,603   

Corporate

     60,203         27,516   

Net current and long-term assets of discontinued operations

     227         210,459   
                 

Total assets

   $ 3,209,373       $ 3,059,040   
                 

 

Financial Information About Geographic Areas

 

Both of our reporting segments conduct business in, and derive substantial revenue from, various countries outside the United States. During fiscal year 2010, we had $1,034.4 million in sales from our international operations, representing approximately 61% of our total sales. During fiscal year 2010, we derived approximately 43% of our international sales from our Human Health segment, and approximately 57% of our international sales from our Environmental Health segment. We anticipate that sales from international operations will continue to represent a substantial portion of our total sales in the future.

 

We are exposed to the risks associated with international operations, including exchange rate fluctuations, regional and country-specific political and economic conditions, foreign receivables collection concerns, trade protection measures and import or export licensing requirements, tax risks, staffing and labor law concerns, intellectual property protection risks, and differing regulatory requirements. Additional geographic information is discussed in Note 22 to our consolidated financial statements included in this annual report on Form 10-K.

 

Item 1A.    Risk Factors

 

The following important factors affect our business and operations generally or affect multiple segments of our business and operations and are not materially different from those factors reported in our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended October 3, 2010:

 

If the markets into which we sell our products decline or do not grow as anticipated due to a decline in general economic conditions, or there are uncertainties surrounding the approval of government or industrial funding proposals, or there are unfavorable changes in government regulations, we may see an adverse effect on the results of our business operations.

 

Our customers include pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, laboratories, academic and research institutions, public health authorities, private healthcare organizations, doctors and government agencies. Our quarterly sales and results of operations are highly dependent on the volume and timing of orders received during the quarter. In addition, our revenues and earnings forecasts for future quarters are often based on the expected trends in our markets. However, the markets we serve do not always experience the trends that we may expect. Negative fluctuations in our customers’ markets, the inability of our customers to secure credit or funding, restrictions in capital expenditures, general economic conditions, cuts in government funding or unfavorable changes in government regulations would likely result in a reduction in demand for our products and services. In addition, government funding is subject to economic conditions and the political process, which is inherently fluid and unpredictable. Our revenues may be adversely affected if our customers delay or reduce purchases as a result of uncertainties surrounding the approval of government or industrial funding proposals. Such declines could harm our consolidated financial position, results of operations, cash flows and trading price of our common stock, and could limit our ability to sustain profitability.

 

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Our growth is subject to global economic, political and other risks.

 

We have operations in many parts of the world. The health of the global economy has a significant impact on our business. The global economy, which experienced a significant downturn throughout 2008 and 2009, including the effects of the credit market crisis and the resulting impact on the finance and banking industries, volatile currency exchange rates and energy costs, inflation concerns, decreased consumer confidence, reduced corporate profits and capital expenditures, and liquidity concerns, began showing signs of gradual improvement in 2010. However, while some economic indicators improved, the overall rate of global recovery experienced during the course of 2010 has been uneven and the recovery is still uncertain. There can be no assurance that any of the recent economic improvements will be sustainable, or that we will not experience any adverse effects that may be material to our consolidated cash flows, results of operations, financial position, or our ability to access capital. Our business is also affected by local economic environments, including inflation, recession, financial liquidity and currency volatility or devaluation. Political changes, some of which may be disruptive, could interfere with our supply chain, our customers and all of our activities in a particular location. In addition, our global manufacturing facilities face risks to their production capacity that may relate to natural disasters, labor relations or regulatory compliance. While certain of these risks can be hedged in a limited way using financial instruments and some are insurable, such attempts to mitigate these risks are costly and not always successful. In addition, our ability to engage in such mitigation has decreased or become even more costly as a result of recent market developments.

 

If we do not introduce new products in a timely manner, we may lose market share and be unable to achieve revenue growth targets.

 

We sell many of our products in industries characterized by rapid technological change, frequent new product and service introductions, and evolving customer needs and industry standards. Many of the businesses competing with us in these industries have significant financial and other resources to invest in new technologies, substantial intellectual property portfolios, substantial experience in new product development, regulatory expertise, manufacturing capabilities, and established distribution channels to deliver products to customers. Our products could become technologically obsolete over time, or we may invest in technology that does not lead to revenue growth or continue to sell products for which the demand from our customers is declining, in which case we may lose market share or not achieve our revenue growth targets. The success of our new product offerings will depend upon several factors, including our ability to:

 

   

accurately anticipate customer needs,

 

   

innovate and develop new technologies and applications,

 

   

successfully commercialize new technologies in a timely manner,

 

   

price our products competitively, and manufacture and deliver our products in sufficient volumes and on time, and

 

   

differentiate our offerings from our competitors’ offerings.

 

Many of our products are used by our customers to develop, test and manufacture their products. We must anticipate industry trends and consistently develop new products to meet our customers’ expectations. In developing new products, we may be required to make significant investments before we can determine the commercial viability of the new product. If we fail to accurately foresee our customers’ needs and future activities, we may invest heavily in research and development of products that do not lead to significant sales. We may also suffer a loss in market share and potential sales revenue if we are unable to commercialize our technology in a timely and efficient manner.

 

In addition, some of our licensed technology is subject to contractual restrictions, which may limit our ability to develop or commercialize products for some applications.

 

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We may not be able to successfully execute acquisitions or license technologies, integrate acquired businesses or licensed technologies into our existing businesses, make acquired businesses or licensed technologies profitable, or successfully divest businesses.

 

We have in the past supplemented, and may in the future supplement, our internal growth by acquiring businesses and licensing technologies that complement or augment our existing product lines, such as our acquisitions of chemagen, VisEn and Signature Genomic, and our purchase of the remaining interest in the ICPMS Joint Venture. However, we may be unable to identify or complete promising acquisitions or license transactions for many reasons, including:

 

   

competition among buyers and licensees,

 

   

the high valuations of businesses and technologies,

 

   

the need for regulatory and other approval, and

 

   

our inability to raise capital to fund these acquisitions.

 

Some of the businesses we acquire may be unprofitable or marginally profitable. Accordingly, the earnings or losses of acquired businesses may dilute our earnings. For these acquired businesses to achieve acceptable levels of profitability, we would have to improve their management, operations, products and market penetration. We may not be successful in this regard and may encounter other difficulties in integrating acquired businesses into our existing operations, such as incompatible management, information or other systems, cultural differences, unforeseen regulatory requirements, previously undisclosed liabilities or difficulties in predicting financial results. Additionally, if we are not successful in selling businesses we seek to divest, the activity of such businesses may dilute our earnings and we may not be able to achieve the expected benefits of such divestitures. As a result, our financial results may differ from our forecasts or the expectations of the investment community in a given quarter or over the long term.

 

To finance our acquisitions, we may have to raise additional funds, either through public or private financings. We may be unable to obtain such funds or may be able to do so only on terms unacceptable to us. We may also incur expenses related to completing acquisitions or licensing technologies, or in evaluating potential acquisitions or technologies, which expenses may adversely impact our profitability.

 

We may not be successful in adequately protecting our intellectual property.

 

Patent and trade secret protection is important to us because developing new products, processes and technologies gives us a competitive advantage, although it is time-consuming and expensive. We own many United States and foreign patents and intend to apply for additional patents. Patent applications we file, however, may not result in issued patents or, if they do, the claims allowed in the patents may be narrower than what is needed to protect fully our products, processes and technologies. Similarly, applications to register our trademarks may not be granted in all countries in which they are filed. For our intellectual property that is protected by keeping it secret, such as trade secrets and know-how, we may not use adequate measures to protect this intellectual property.

 

Third parties may also challenge the validity of our issued patents, may circumvent or “design around” our patents and patent applications, or may claim that our products, processes or technologies infringe their patents. In addition, third parties may assert that our product names infringe their trademarks. We may incur significant expense in legal proceedings to protect our intellectual property against infringement by third parties or to defend against claims of infringement by third parties. Claims by third parties in pending or future lawsuits could result in awards of substantial damages against us or court orders that could effectively prevent us from manufacturing, using, importing or selling our products in the United States or other countries.

 

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If we are unable to renew our licenses or otherwise lose our licensed rights, we may have to stop selling products or we may lose competitive advantage.

 

We may not be able to renew our existing licenses, or licenses we may obtain in the future, on terms acceptable to us, or at all. If we lose the rights to a patented or other proprietary technology, we may need to stop selling products incorporating that technology and possibly other products, redesign our products or lose a competitive advantage. Potential competitors could in-license technologies that we fail to license and potentially erode our market share.

 

Our licenses typically subject us to various economic and commercialization obligations. If we fail to comply with these obligations, we could lose important rights under a license, such as the right to exclusivity in a market. In some cases, we could lose all rights under the license. In addition, rights granted under the license could be lost for reasons out of our control. For example, the licensor could lose patent protection for a number of reasons, including invalidity of the licensed patent, or a third-party could obtain a patent that curtails our freedom to operate under one or more licenses.

 

If we do not compete effectively, our business will be harmed.

 

We encounter aggressive competition from numerous competitors in many areas of our business. We may not be able to compete effectively with all of these competitors. To remain competitive, we must develop new products and periodically enhance our existing products. We anticipate that we may also have to adjust the prices of many of our products to stay competitive. In addition, new competitors, technologies or market trends may emerge to threaten or reduce the value of entire product lines.

 

Our quarterly operating results could be subject to significant fluctuation, and we may not be able to adjust our operations to effectively address changes we do not anticipate, which could increase the volatility of our stock price and potentially cause losses to our shareholders.

 

Given the nature of the markets in which we participate, we cannot reliably predict future sales and profitability. Changes in competitive, market and economic conditions may require us to adjust our operations, and we may not be able to make those adjustments or make them quickly enough to adapt to changing conditions. A high proportion of our costs are fixed, due in part to our research and development and manufacturing costs. As a result, small declines in sales could disproportionately affect our operating results in a quarter. Factors that may affect our quarterly operating results include:

 

   

demand for and market acceptance of our products,

 

   

competitive pressures resulting in lower selling prices,

 

   

changes in the level of economic activity in regions in which we do business,

 

   

changes in general economic conditions or government funding,

 

   

settlements of income tax audits,

 

   

differing tax laws and changes in those laws, or changes in the countries in which we are subject to tax,

 

   

fluctuations in our effective tax rate,

 

   

changes in industries, such as pharmaceutical and biomedical,

 

   

changes in the portions of our sales represented by our various products and customers,

 

   

our ability to introduce new products,

 

   

our competitors’ announcement or introduction of new products, services or technological innovations,

 

   

costs of raw materials, energy or supplies,

 

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our ability to execute ongoing productivity initiatives,

 

   

changes in the volume or timing of product orders, and

 

   

changes in assumptions used to determine contingent consideration in acquisitions.

 

A significant disruption in third-party package delivery and import/export services, or significant increases in prices for those services, could interfere with our ability to ship products, increase our costs and lower our profitability.

 

We ship a significant portion of our products to our customers through independent package delivery and import/export companies, including UPS and Federal Express in the United States, TNT, UPS and DHL in Europe and UPS in Asia. We also ship our products through other carriers, including national trucking firms, overnight carrier services and the United States Postal Service. If one or more of the package delivery or import/export providers experiences a significant disruption in services or institutes a significant price increase, the delivery of our products could be prevented or delayed. Such events could cause us to incur increased shipping costs that could not be passed on to our customers, negatively impacting our profitability and our relationships with certain of our customers.

 

Disruptions in the supply of raw materials, certain key components and other goods from our limited or single source suppliers could have an adverse effect on the results of our business operations, and could damage our relationships with customers.

 

The production of our products requires a wide variety of raw materials, key components and other goods that are generally available from alternate sources of supply. However, certain critical raw materials, key components and other goods required for the production and sale of some of our principal products are available from limited or single sources of supply. We generally have multi-year contracts with no minimum purchase requirements with these suppliers, but those contracts may not fully protect us from a failure by certain suppliers to supply critical materials or from the delays inherent in being required to change suppliers and, in some cases, validate new raw materials. Such raw materials, key components and other goods could usually be obtained from alternative sources with the potential for an increase in price, decline in quality or delay in delivery. A prolonged inability to obtain certain raw materials, key components or other goods is possible and could have an adverse effect on our business operations, and could damage our relationships with customers.

 

The manufacture and sale of products and services may expose us to product liability claims for which we could have substantial liability.

 

We face an inherent business risk of exposure to product liability claims if our products, services or product candidates are alleged or found to have caused injury, damage or loss. We may in the future be unable to obtain insurance with adequate levels of coverage for potential liability on acceptable terms or claims of this nature may be excluded from coverage under the terms of any insurance policy that we can obtain. If we are unable to obtain such insurance or the amounts of any claims successfully brought against us substantially exceed our coverage, then our business could be adversely impacted.

 

If we fail to maintain satisfactory compliance with the regulations of the United States Food and Drug Administration and other governmental agencies, we may be forced to recall products and cease their manufacture and distribution, and we could be subject to civil or criminal penalties.

 

Our operations are subject to regulation by different state and federal government agencies in the United States and other countries. If we fail to comply with those regulations, we could be subject to fines, penalties, criminal prosecution or other sanctions. Some of the products produced by our Human Health segment are subject to regulation by the United States Food and Drug Administration and similar foreign and domestic agencies. These regulations govern a wide variety of product activities, from design and development to labeling,

 

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manufacturing, promotion, sales, resales and distribution. If we fail to comply with those regulations or those of similar foreign and domestic agencies, we may have to recall products, cease their manufacture and distribution, and may be subject to fines or criminal prosecution.

 

Changes in governmental regulations may reduce demand for our products or increase our expenses.

 

We compete in markets in which we or our customers must comply with federal, state, local and foreign regulations, such as environmental, health and safety, and food and drug regulations. We develop, configure and market our products to meet customer needs created by these regulations. Any significant change in these regulations could reduce demand for our products or increase our costs of producing these products.

 

The healthcare industry is highly regulated and if we fail to comply with its extensive system of laws and regulations, we could suffer fines and penalties or be required to make significant changes to our operations which could have a significant adverse effect on the results of our business operations.

 

The healthcare industry, including the genetic screening market, is subject to extensive and frequently changing international and United States federal, state and local laws and regulations. In addition, legislative provisions relating to healthcare fraud and abuse, patient privacy violations and misconduct involving government insurance programs provide federal enforcement personnel with substantial powers and remedies to pursue suspected violations. We believe that our business will continue to be subject to increasing regulation as the federal government continues to strengthen its position on healthcare matters, the scope and effect of which we cannot predict. If we fail to comply with applicable laws and regulations, we could suffer civil and criminal damages, fines and penalties, exclusion from participation in governmental healthcare programs, and the loss of various licenses, certificates and authorizations necessary to operate our business, as well as incur liabilities from third-party claims, all of which could have a significant adverse effect on our business.

 

Economic, political and other risks associated with foreign operations could adversely affect our international sales and profitability.

 

Because we sell our products worldwide, our businesses are subject to risks associated with doing business internationally. Our sales originating outside the United States represented the majority of our total sales in the fiscal year ended January 2, 2011. We anticipate that sales from international operations will continue to represent a substantial portion of our total sales. In addition, many of our manufacturing facilities, employees and suppliers are located outside the United States. Accordingly, our future results of operations could be harmed by a variety of factors, including:

 

   

changes in foreign currency exchange rates,

 

   

changes in a country’s or region’s political or economic conditions, particularly in developing or emerging markets,

 

   

longer payment cycles of foreign customers and timing of collections in foreign jurisdictions,

 

   

trade protection measures and import or export licensing requirements,

 

   

differing tax laws and changes in those laws, or changes in the countries in which we are subject to tax,

 

   

adverse income tax audit settlements or loss of previously negotiated tax incentives,

 

   

differing business practices associated with foreign operations,

 

   

difficulty in transferring cash between international operations and the United States,

 

   

difficulty in staffing and managing widespread operations,

 

   

differing labor laws and changes in those laws,

 

   

differing protection of intellectual property and changes in that protection,

 

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increasing global enforcement of anti-bribery and anti-corruption laws, and

 

   

differing regulatory requirements and changes in those requirements.

 

If we do not retain our key personnel, our ability to execute our business strategy will be limited.

 

Our success depends to a significant extent upon the continued service of our executive officers and key management and technical personnel, particularly our experienced engineers, and on our ability to continue to attract, retain, and motivate qualified personnel. The competition for these employees is intense. The loss of the services of one or more of our key personnel could have a material adverse effect on our operating results. In addition, there could be a material adverse effect on us should the turnover rates for engineers and other key personnel increase significantly or if we are unable to continue to attract qualified personnel. We do not maintain any key person life insurance policies on any of our officers or employees.

 

Our success also depends on our ability to execute leadership succession plans. The inability to successfully transition key management roles could have a material adverse effect on our operating results.

 

If we experience a significant disruption in our information technology systems or if we fail to implement new systems and software successfully, our business could be adversely affected.

 

We rely on several centralized information systems throughout our company to keep financial records, process orders, manage inventory, process shipments to customers and operate other critical functions. If we were to experience a prolonged system disruption in the information technology systems that involve our interactions with customers and suppliers, it could result in the loss of sales and customers and significant incremental costs, which could adversely affect our business.

 

Restrictions in our credit facility and outstanding debt instruments may limit our activities.

 

Our amended senior unsecured revolving credit facility and our 6% senior unsecured notes contain, and future debt instruments to which we may become subject may contain, restrictive covenants that limit our ability to engage in activities that could otherwise benefit our company. These debt instruments include restrictions on our ability and the ability of our subsidiaries to:

 

   

pay dividends on, redeem or repurchase our capital stock,

 

   

sell assets,

 

   

incur obligations that restrict their ability to make dividend or other payments to us,

 

   

guarantee or secure indebtedness,

 

   

enter into transactions with affiliates, and

 

   

consolidate, merge or transfer all or substantially all of our assets and the assets of our subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.

 

We are also required to meet specified financial ratios under the terms of our debt instruments. Our ability to comply with these financial restrictions and covenants is dependent on our future performance, which is subject to prevailing economic conditions and other factors, including factors that are beyond our control such as foreign exchange rates, interest rates, changes in technology and changes in the level of competition.

 

Our failure to comply with any of these restrictions in our amended senior unsecured revolving credit facility and our 6% senior unsecured notes may result in an event of default under either or both of these debt instruments, which could permit acceleration of the debt under either or both debt instruments, and require us to prepay that debt before its scheduled due date.

 

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Our results of operations will be adversely affected if we fail to realize the full value of our intangible assets.

 

As of January 2, 2011, our total assets included $1.9 billion of net intangible assets. Net intangible assets consist principally of goodwill associated with acquisitions and costs associated with securing patent rights, trademark rights, core technology and technology licenses, net of accumulated amortization. We test certain of these items—specifically all of those that are considered “non-amortizing”—at least on an annual basis for potential impairment by comparing the carrying value to the fair market value of the reporting unit to which they are assigned. All of our amortizing intangible assets are evaluated for impairment should discrete events occur that call into question the recoverability of the intangible assets.

 

Adverse changes in our business, adverse changes in the assumptions used to determine the fair value of our reporting units, or the failure to grow our Human Health and Environmental Health segments may result in impairment of our intangible assets, which could adversely affect our results of operations.

 

Our share price will fluctuate.

 

Over the last several quarters, stock markets in general and our common stock in particular have experienced significant price and volume volatility. Both the market price and the daily trading volume of our common stock may continue to be subject to significant fluctuations due not only to general stock market conditions but also to a change in sentiment in the market regarding our operations and business prospects. In addition to the risk factors discussed above, the price and volume volatility of our common stock may be affected by:

 

   

operating results that vary from the expectations of securities analysts and investors,

 

   

the financial performance of the major end markets that we target,

 

   

the operating and securities price performance of companies that investors consider to be comparable to us,

 

   

announcements of strategic developments, acquisitions and other material events by us or our competitors, and

 

   

changes in global financial markets and global economies and general market conditions, such as interest or foreign exchange rates, commodity and equity prices and the value of financial assets.

 

Dividends on our common stock could be reduced or eliminated in the future.

 

On October 27, 2010, we announced that our Board had declared a quarterly dividend of $0.07 per share for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2010, which was paid in February 2011. On January 24, 2011, we announced that our Board had declared a quarterly dividend of $0.07 per share for the first quarter of fiscal year 2011 that is payable in May 2011. In the future, our Board may reduce or eliminate our common stock dividend in order to fund investments for growth, repurchase shares or conserve capital resources.

 

Item 1B.    Unresolved Staff Comments

 

Not applicable.

 

Item  2.    Properties

 

As of January 2, 2011, our continuing operations occupied approximately 2,076,000 square feet in over 90 locations. We own approximately 549,000 square feet of this space, and lease the balance. We conduct our operations in manufacturing and assembly plants, research laboratories, administrative offices and other facilities located in 9 states and 31 foreign countries.

 

Facilities outside of the United States account for approximately 1,239,000 square feet of our owned and leased property, or approximately 60% of our total occupied space.

 

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Our real property leases are both short-term and long-term. We believe that our properties are well-maintained and are adequate for our present requirements.

 

The following table indicates, as of January 2, 2011, the approximate square footage of real property owned and leased attributable to the continuing operations of both of our reporting segments:

 

     Owned      Leased      Total  
     (In square feet)  

Human Health

     541,754         903,648         1,445,402   

Environmental Health

     7,399         571,378         578,777   

Corporate offices

     —           51,889         51,889   
                          

Continuing operations

     549,153         1,526,915         2,076,068   
                          

 

Item 3.    Legal Proceedings

 

Enzo Biochem, Inc. and Enzo Life Sciences, Inc. (collectively, “Enzo”) filed a complaint dated October 23, 2002 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Civil Action No. 02-8448, against Amersham plc, Amersham BioSciences, PerkinElmer, Inc., PerkinElmer Life Sciences, Inc., Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, Sigma Chemical Company, Inc., Molecular Probes, Inc., and Orchid BioSciences, Inc. (the “New York Case”). The complaint alleges that we have breached our distributorship and settlement agreements with Enzo, infringed Enzo’s patents, engaged in unfair competition and fraud, and committed torts against Enzo by, among other things, engaging in commercial development and exploitation of Enzo’s patented products and technology, separately and together with the other defendants. Enzo seeks injunctive and monetary relief. In 2003, the court severed the lawsuit and ordered Enzo to serve individual complaints against the five defendants. We subsequently filed an answer and a counterclaim alleging that Enzo’s patents are invalid. In July 2006, the court issued a decision regarding the construction of the claims in Enzo’s patents that effectively limited the coverage of certain of those claims and, we believe, excludes certain of our products from the coverage of Enzo’s patents. Summary judgment motions were filed by the defendants in January 2007, and a hearing with oral argument on those motions took place in July 2007. In January 2009, the case was assigned to a new district court judge and in March 2009, the new judge denied the pending summary judgment motions without prejudice and ordered a stay of the case until the federal appellate court decides Enzo’s appeal of the judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut in Enzo Biochem vs. Applera Corp. and Tropix, Inc. (the “Connecticut Case”), which involves a number of the same patents and which could materially affect the scope of Enzo’s case against us. On March 26, 2010, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (“CAFC”) affirmed-in-part and reversed-in-part the judgment in the Connecticut Case. Pending further disposition of the Connecticut Case, the New York Case against us and other defendants remains stayed.

 

We believe we have meritorious defenses to the matter described above, and we are contesting the action vigorously. While this matter is subject to uncertainty, in the opinion of our management, based on its review of the information available at this time, the resolution of this matter will not have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial statements included in this annual report on Form 10-K.

 

We are also subject to various other claims, legal proceedings and investigations covering a wide range of matters that arise in the ordinary course of our business activities. Although we have established accruals for potential losses that we believe are probable and reasonably estimable, in the opinion of our management, based on its review of the information available at this time, the total cost of resolving these other contingencies at January 2, 2011 should not have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial statements included in this annual report on Form 10-K. However, each of these matters is subject to uncertainties, and it is possible that some of these matters may be resolved unfavorably to us.

 

Item 4.    Reserved

 

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EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT

 

Listed below are our executive officers as of March 1, 2011. No family relationship exists between any one of these officers and any of the other executive officers or directors.

 

Name

  

Position

   Age  
Robert F. Friel    Chief Executive Officer, President, and Director      55   
Frank A. Wilson    Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Accounting Officer      52   
Joel S. Goldberg    Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary      42   
Daniel R. Marshak    Senior Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer, and President—Emerging Diagnostics      53   
John R. Letcher    Senior Vice President, Human Resources      49   

 

Robert F. Friel, 55. Mr. Friel was named our Chief Executive Officer in February 2008. Mr. Friel joined us in February 1999 as our Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. In 2004, he was named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer with responsibility for business development and information technology, in addition to his oversight of the finance function. In January 2006, he was named our Vice Chairman, President of Life and Analytical Sciences and elected to our Board. In July 2007, he was named President and Chief Operating Officer, effective August 1, 2007. From 1980 to 1999, he held several senior management positions with AlliedSignal, Inc., now Honeywell International. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Lafayette College and a Master of Science degree in taxation from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Mr. Friel is a Director of CareFusion Corporation and serves on the Board of Trustees for the March of Dimes Foundation.

 

Frank A. Wilson, 52. Mr. Wilson joined us in May 2009 as Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer. Prior to joining us in May 2009, Mr. Wilson held key financial and business management roles over 12 years at the Danaher Corporation, including Corporate Vice President of Investor Relations; Group Vice President of Business Development; Group Vice President of Finance for Danaher Motion Group; President of Gems Sensors; and Group Vice President of Finance for the Industrial Controls Group. Before joining Danaher, Mr. Wilson worked for several years at AlliedSignal Inc., now Honeywell International, where he last served as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer for Commercial Aviations Systems. Prior to joining AlliedSignal Inc., he worked at PepsiCo Inc. in financial and controllership positions of increasing responsibility, E.F. Hutton and Company, and KPMG Peat Marwick. Mr. Wilson received a Bachelor’s degree in business administration from Baylor University and is also a Certified Public Accountant.

 

Joel S. Goldberg, 42. Mr. Goldberg joined us in July 2008 as our Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. Prior to joining us in July 2008, Mr. Goldberg served as Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc. During his seven years with Millennium, he focused in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, investment and financing transactions, securities and healthcare related compliance, and employment law. Before joining Millennium, Mr. Goldberg was an associate at the law firm of Edwards & Angell, LLP, focusing on emerging companies, venture capital, securities and merger-related work. Mr. Goldberg graduated from the Northeastern University School of Law and also holds a Masters in Business Administration from Northeastern University. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 

Daniel R. Marshak, 53. Dr. Marshak was appointed our Senior Vice President in April 2008, having joined us as our Chief Scientific Officer in May 2006. In addition to these responsibilities, in May 2010, Dr. Marshak was appointed President of our Emerging Diagnostics business. Dr. Marshak previously held the position of President, Greater China for us. Prior to joining us, Dr. Marshak was with Cambrex Corporation since 2000, most recently as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Biotechnology. Dr. Marshak also previously held the positions of Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer for Osiris Therapeutics, Inc. and Senior Staff Investigator, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Dr. Marshak received his Bachelor of Arts degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from Harvard University, and his doctorate in biochemistry and cell biology from The Rockefeller University. Dr. Marshak performed postdoctoral research in pharmacology at Vanderbilt University and the National Institute of Health. Dr. Marshak is the author of more than 100 scientific publications and an inventor on six United States patents.

 

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John R. Letcher, 49. Mr. Letcher was appointed our Senior Vice President of Human Resources, effective February 1, 2010. He joined us in 1999 as our Vice President of Human Resources for the Optoelectronics business unit and, in 2003, was named Vice President of Human Resources for the Life and Analytical Sciences business unit. In 2008, Mr. Letcher was named our Vice President Human Resources for all of our business units. Previously, he served as Director of Human Resources of ABB Americas, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of an international engineering company. Prior to that, Mr. Letcher held the positions of Business Controller in ABB Americas, Inc.’s US Power Generation Gas Turbine Power business; Vice President of Finance for General Ship Corporation and Senior Auditor for Arthur Andersen. Mr. Letcher holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and information technology from Boston College.

 

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PART II

 

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

 

Market Price of Common Stock

 

Our common stock is listed and traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The following table sets forth the high and low per share closing sale prices for our common stock on that exchange for each quarter in fiscal years 2010 and 2009.

 

     2010 Fiscal Quarters  
     First      Second      Third      Fourth  

High

   $ 24.31       $ 25.19       $ 23.18       $ 26.14   

Low

     19.82         19.65         18.89         22.64   
     2009 Fiscal Quarters  
     First      Second      Third      Fourth  

High

   $ 15.02       $ 17.99       $ 20.15       $ 20.99   

Low

     11.00         13.02         15.97         18.45   

 

As of February 24, 2011, we had approximately 6,434 holders of record of our common stock.

 

Stock Repurchase Program

 

The following table provides information with respect to the shares of common stock repurchased by us for the periods indicated.

 

    Issuer Repurchases of Equity Securities  

Period

  Total Number of
Shares
Purchased(1)(2)
    Average Price
Paid Per
Share
    Total Number of
Shares Purchased as
Part of Publicly
Announced Plans or
Programs
    Maximum Number of
Shares that May Yet
Be Purchased
Under the Plans or
Programs
 

October 4, 2010—October 31, 2010

    0      $ 0.00        0        12,999,167   

November 1, 2010—November 28, 2010

    1,800,000      $ 23.76        1,800,000        11,199,167   

November 29, 2010—January 2, 2011

    1,210,979      $ 23.90        1,200,000        9,999,167   
                               

Activity for quarter ended January 2, 2011

    3,010,979      $ 23.82        3,000,000        9,999,167   
                               

 

(1) On October 23, 2008, we announced that our Board authorized us to repurchase up to 10.0 million shares of common stock under a stock repurchase program (the “Repurchase Program”). On August 31, 2010, we announced that our Board had authorized us to repurchase an additional 5.0 million shares of common stock under the Repurchase Program. The Repurchase Program will expire on October 22, 2012 unless terminated earlier by our Board, and may be suspended or discontinued at any time. During the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2010, we repurchased approximately 3.0 million shares of common stock in the open market at an aggregate cost of $71.5 million, including commissions, under the Repurchase Program. As of January 2, 2011, approximately 10.0 million shares of our common stock remained available for repurchase from the 15.0 million shares authorized by our Board under the Repurchase Program. From January 3, 2011 through February 24, 2011, we repurchased approximately 3.0 million shares of common stock in the open market at an aggregate cost of $80.6 million, including commissions, under the Repurchase Program. The repurchased shares have been reflected as additional authorized but unissued shares, with the payments reflected in common stock and capital in excess of par value.
(2)

Our Board has authorized us to repurchase shares of common stock to satisfy minimum statutory tax withholding obligations in connection with the vesting of restricted stock awards and restricted stock unit

 

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awards granted pursuant to our equity incentive plans. During the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2010, we repurchased 10,979 shares of common stock for this purpose. The repurchased shares have been reflected as additional authorized but unissued shares, with the payments reflected in common stock and capital in excess of par value.

 

Dividends

 

During fiscal years 2010 and 2009, we declared regular quarterly cash dividends on our common stock. The table below sets forth the cash dividends per share that we declared on our common stock during each of those fiscal years, by quarter.

 

     2010 Fiscal Quarters      2010 Total  
   First      Second      Third      Fourth         

Cash dividends per common share

   $ 0.07       $ 0.07       $ 0.07       $ 0.07       $ 0.28   
     2009 Fiscal Quarters      2009 Total  
     First      Second      Third      Fourth         

Cash dividends per common share

   $ 0.07       $ 0.07       $ 0.07       $ 0.07       $ 0.28   

 

While it is our current intention to pay regular quarterly cash dividends, any decision to pay future cash dividends will be made by our Board and will depend on our earnings, financial condition and other factors. Our Board may reduce or eliminate our common stock dividend in order to fund investments for growth, repurchase shares or conserve capital resources. For further information related to our stockholders’ equity, see Note 18 to our consolidated financial statements included in this annual report on Form 10-K.

 

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Stock Performance Graph

 

Set forth below is a line graph comparing the cumulative total shareholder return on our common stock against the cumulative total return of the S&P Composite-500 Index and a Peer Group Index for the five fiscal years from January 1, 2006 to January 2, 2011. Our Peer Group Index comprises the following companies: Affymetrix, Inc., Beckman Coulter, Inc., Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (formerly known as Thermo Electron Corporation), and Waters Corporation.

 

Comparison of Five-Year Cumulative Total Return

PerkinElmer, Inc. Common Stock, S&P Composite-500 and

Peer Group Indices

 

TOTAL RETURN TO SHAREHOLDERS

(Includes reinvestment of dividends)

 

LOGO

 

     January 1,
2006
     December 31,
2006
     December 30,
2007
     December 28,
2008
     January 3,
2010
     January 2,
2011
 

PerkinElmer, Inc.

   $ 100.00       $ 95.59       $ 113.60       $ 58.80       $ 92.17       $ 117.08   

S&P 500 Index

   $ 100.00       $ 115.80       $ 122.16       $ 76.96       $ 97.33       $ 111.99   

Peer Group

   $ 100.00       $ 114.46       $ 151.16       $ 79.65       $ 120.83       $ 142.03   

 

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Item 6.    Selected Financial Data

 

The following table sets forth selected historical financial information as of and for each of the fiscal years in the five-year period ended January 2, 2011. We derived the selected historical financial information as of and for each of the fiscal years in the three-year period ended January 2, 2011 from our audited consolidated financial statements which are included elsewhere in this annual report on Form 10-K. We derived the selected historical financial information as of and for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006 from our audited consolidated financial statements which are not included in this annual report on Form 10-K. As with our consolidated financial statements for the fiscal years ended January 3, 2010 and December 28, 2008, we adjusted the information in the consolidated financial statements for the fiscal years ended December 30, 2007 and December 31, 2006, where appropriate, to account for our discontinued operations.

 

Our historical financial information may not be indicative of our future results of operations or financial position.

 

The following selected historical financial information should be read together with our “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our consolidated financial statements, including the related notes, included elsewhere in this annual report on Form 10-K.

 

    Fiscal Years Ended  
    January 2,
2011
    January 3,
2010
    December 28,
2008
    December 30,
2007
    December 31,
2006
 
    (In thousands, except per share data)  

Income Statement Data:

         

Sales

  $ 1,704,346      $ 1,550,766      $ 1,659,668      $ 1,436,470      $ 1,220,825   

Operating income from continuing operations(1)(2)(3)

    153,601        121,922        147,627        120,604        94,469   

Interest and other (income) expense, net(4)(5)(6)

    (8,383     15,787        44,039        15,890        2,072   

Income from continuing operations before income taxes

    161,984        106,135        103,588        104,714        92,397   

Income from continuing operations, net of income taxes(7)(8)(9)(11)

    135,922        74,335        90,890        90,926        68,458   

Income from discontinued operations and dispositions, net of income taxes(10)(11)(12)

    247,997        11,264        35,519        40,760        51,125   
                                       

Net income

  $ 383,919      $ 85,599      $ 126,409      $ 131,686      $ 119,583   
                                       

Basic earnings per share:

         

Continuing operations

  $ 1.16      $ 0.64      $ 0.77      $ 0.76      $ 0.55   

Discontinued operations

    2.12        0.10        0.30        0.34        0.41   
                                       

Net income

  $ 3.28      $ 0.74      $ 1.07      $ 1.11      $ 0.96   
                                       

Diluted earnings per share:

         

Continuing operations

  $ 1.15      $ 0.64      $ 0.77      $ 0.75      $ 0.54   

Discontinued operations

    2.10        0.10        0.30        0.34        0.40   
                                       

Net income

  $ 3.25      $ 0.73      $ 1.07      $ 1.09      $ 0.95   
                                       

Weighted-average common shares outstanding:

         

Basic:

    117,109        116,250        117,659        118,916        125,203   

Diluted:

    117,982        116,590        118,687        120,605        126,512   

Cash dividends per common share

  $ 0.28      $ 0.28      $ 0.28      $ 0.28      $ 0.28   

 

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    As of  
    January 2,
2011
    January 3,
2010
    December 28,
2008
    December 30,
2007
    December 31,
2006
 
    (In thousands)  

Balance Sheet Data:

         

Total assets(10)(13)

  $ 3,209,373      $ 3,059,040      $ 2,931,767      $ 2,949,337      $ 2,510,322   

Short-term debt(13)

    2,255        146        40        562        1,153   

Long-term debt(13)(14)(15)

    424,000        558,197        509,040        516,078        151,781   

Stockholders’ equity(16)(17)(18)

    1,925,818        1,628,957        1,567,943        1,575,277        1,577,730   

Common shares outstanding(18)

    115,715        117,023        117,112        117,585        123,255   

 

(1) We adopted the authoritative guidance for stock compensation on January 2, 2006. The total incremental pre-tax compensation expense recorded in continuing operations related to stock options was $6.2 million in fiscal year 2010, $7.9 million in fiscal year 2009, $9.2 million in fiscal year 2008, $8.5 million in fiscal year 2007 and $8.2 million in fiscal year 2006.
(2) We incurred pre-tax restructuring and lease charges (reversals), net, of $19.0 million in fiscal year 2010, $18.0 million in fiscal year 2009, $6.7 million in fiscal year 2008, $13.9 million in fiscal year 2007, and ($2.0) million in fiscal year 2006.
(3) We settled an insurance claim resulting from a fire that occurred in one of our facilities in March 2005. As a result of that settlement, we recorded pre-tax gains of $15.3 million in fiscal year 2007. We sold the building on April 27, 2010. Net proceeds from the sale were $11.0 million, and we recorded a pre-tax gain of $3.4 million in operating income.
(4) In fiscal year 2007, we entered into forward interest rate contracts with notional amounts totaling $300.0 million and a weighted average interest rate of 4.25%. These contracts were intended to hedge movements in interest rates prior to our expected debt issuance. During fiscal year 2008, we settled forward interest rate contracts with notional amounts totaling $150.0 million upon the issuance of our 6% senior unsecured notes, and recognized $8.4 million, net of taxes of $5.4 million, of accumulated derivative losses in other comprehensive (loss) income. We also discontinued forward interest rate contracts with notional amounts totaling $150.0 million during fiscal year 2008. The discontinued cash flow hedges were immediately settled with counterparties, and the $17.5 million loss was recognized as interest and other (income) expense, net.
(5) In May 2010, we acquired the remaining fifty percent equity interest in the ICPMS Joint Venture. The fair value of the acquisition was $67.7 million, including cash consideration of $35.0 million, non-cash consideration of $2.6 million for certain non-exclusive rights to intangible assets we own, and $30.4 million representing the fair value of our fifty percent equity interest in the ICPMS Joint Venture held prior to the acquisition. We recognized a pre-tax gain of $25.6 million from the re-measurement to fair value of our previously held equity interest in the ICPMS Joint Venture. This pre-tax gain is reported in interest and other (income) expense, net, for fiscal year 2010.
(6) In fiscal year 2008, interest expense was $23.7 million due to higher outstanding debt balances with the issuance of our 6% senior unsecured notes that primarily related to the purchase of ViaCell, Inc.(“ViaCell”), which was partially offset by lower interest rates on our amended senior unsecured revolving credit facility.
(7) The fiscal year 2010 effective tax rate on continuing operations of 16.1% was largely due to the favorable impact related to the gain on the previously held equity interest in the ICPMS Joint Venture.
(8) The fiscal year 2008 effective tax rate on continuing operations of 12.3% was largely due to a $15.6 million benefit related to the settlement of various income tax audits.
(9) The fiscal year 2007 effective tax rate on continuing operations of 13.2% was largely due to a $18.6 million benefit related to the settlement of an income tax audit.
(10) In November 2010, we sold our IDS business for approximately $500.0 million, $482.0 million net of payments for acquired cash balances, subject to an adjustment for working capital as of the closing date. We recognized a pre-tax gain of $315.3 million, inclusive of the net working capital adjustment, in fiscal year 2010 as a result of the sale of our IDS business. The gain was recognized as a gain on the disposition of discontinued operations.

 

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(11)

In fiscal year 2008, our Board approved separate plans to shut down our ViaCyte SM and Cellular Therapy Technology businesses, and our Cellular Screening Fluorescence and Luminescence workstations, Analytical Proteomics Instruments and Proteomics and Genomics Instruments businesses. We recognized a pre-tax loss of $12.8 million related to lease and severance costs and the reduction of fixed assets and inventory to net realizable value.

(12) In fiscal year 2006, we sold substantially all of the assets of the Semiconductor business of our historic Fluid Sciences segment for approximately $25.7 million, including a net working capital adjustment, plus potential additional contingent consideration. We recognized a pre-tax gain of $3.8 million, exclusive of additional contingent consideration.
(13) In fiscal year 2007, we completed the tender offer for all of the outstanding shares of common stock of ViaCell. Aggregate consideration for this transaction was approximately $295.8 million in cash, which excludes $31.8 million in acquired cash. In connection with this acquisition, we entered into a $300.0 million unsecured interim credit facility to pay the purchase price and transactional expenses of this acquisition. This unsecured interim credit facility matured on March 31, 2008, at which point we paid in full the outstanding balance. The source of funds for the repayment was comprised of our on-hand cash and cash equivalents, and borrowings under our amended and restated senior unsecured revolving credit facility. We classified the $300.0 million of outstanding borrowings on the unsecured interim credit facility as long-term debt in fiscal year 2007.
(14) In May 2008, we issued and sold seven-year senior notes at a rate of 6% with a face value of $150.0 million and received $150.0 million in gross proceeds from the issuance. The debt, which matures in May 2015, is unsecured.
(15) In June 2009, our consolidated subsidiary exercised the right to terminate the receivables purchase agreement with a third-party financial institution releasing both parties of their rights, liabilities and obligations under this agreement. We had an undivided interest in the receivables that had been sold to the third-party financial institution under this agreement of $40.0 million as of December 28, 2008 and $45.0 million as of each December 30, 2007, and December 31, 2006.
(16) In fiscal year 2006, we adopted the authoritative guidance on the balance sheet recognition requirements for employee benefit plans. The impact of this adoption was a reduction to accumulated other comprehensive loss of $32.7 million, a reduction to other assets of $26.6 million, an increase to current liabilities of $7.3 million, an increase to current assets of $0.7 million and a reduction to long-term liabilities of $0.4 million, with no impact to our consolidated statements of operations or consolidated statements of cash flows.
(17) In fiscal year 2007, we adopted the authoritative guidance on accounting for uncertainty in income taxes. The impact of this adoption was an increase to retained earnings of $3.6 million and a reduction to accrued liabilities of $3.6 million, with no impact to our consolidated statements of operations or consolidated statements of cash flows.
(18) In fiscal year 2010, we repurchased in the open market approximately 3.0 million shares of our common stock at an aggregate cost of $71.5 million, including commissions. In fiscal year 2009, we repurchased in the open market approximately 1.0 million shares of our common stock at an aggregate cost of $14.2 million, including commissions. In fiscal year 2008, we repurchased in the open market approximately 3.0 million shares of our common stock at an aggregate cost of $75.5 million, including commissions. In fiscal year 2007, we repurchased in the open market approximately 8.1 million shares of our common stock at an aggregate cost of $203.0 million, including commissions. In fiscal year 2006, we repurchased in the open market approximately 8.9 million shares of our common stock at an aggregate cost of $190.1 million, including commissions. The repurchased shares have been reflected as additional authorized but unissued shares, with the payments reflected in common stock and capital in excess of par value. These repurchases were made pursuant to our stock repurchase programs announced in October 2008, modified in August 2010, and in November 2006.

 

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Item 7.    Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

 

This annual report on Form 10-K, including the following management’s discussion and analysis, contains forward-looking information that you should read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes to consolidated financial statements that we have included elsewhere in this annual report on Form 10-K. For this purpose, any statements contained in this report that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Words such as “believes,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “expects,” “will” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Our actual results may differ materially from the plans, intentions or expectations we disclose in the forward-looking statements we make. We have included important factors above under the heading “Risk Factors” in Item 1A above that we believe could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements we make. We are not obligated to publicly update any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

 

Accounting Period

 

Our fiscal year ends on the Sunday nearest December 31. We report fiscal years under a 52/53 week format. Under this method, certain years will contain 53 weeks. The fiscal year ended January 2, 2011 included 52 weeks. The fiscal years ended January 3, 2010 and December 28, 2008 included 53 weeks and 52 weeks, respectively. The fiscal year ended January 1, 2012 will include 52 weeks.

 

Overview of Fiscal Year 2010

 

During fiscal year 2010, we continued to see positive signs of recovery from the global economic contraction across most of our end markets and geographies, in addition to good performance from investments in our ongoing technology and sales and marketing initiatives. Our overall sales in fiscal year 2010 increased $153.6 million, or 10%, as compared to fiscal year 2009, reflecting an increase of $64.7 million, or 9%, in our Human Health segment sales and an increase of $88.9 million, or 11%, in our Environmental Health segment sales. The increase in our Human Health segment sales during fiscal year 2010 was due primarily to increased demand for our medical imaging products with the expansion of panel usage for diagnostic, oncology and non-medical applications and the easing of capital budget constraints in major hospitals in the diagnostics market, as well as increased growth in the academic sector for both instruments and reagents in the research market. These increases were partially offset by the impact of lower birth rates in the United States and tight inventory management in state and national labs for neonatal screening in the diagnostics market, as well as continued constrained capital spending within our pharmaceutical customers in the research market, particularly in the area of high throughput screening. Customer consolidations in the pharmaceutical market also had an unfavorable impact on our research business. The increase in our Environmental Health segment sales during fiscal year 2010 was due primarily to the increase in our OneSource® multivendor service offering, which we expanded in markets beyond our traditional customer base and services, as well as growth in our environmental, food and consumer safety and testing products. We also experienced continued growth in traditional chemical markets with the reduction of constraints on capital purchases to rebuild capacity as a result of the cyclical recovery and increased demand after the extended period of delayed capital investment.

 

In our Human Health segment, we experienced strong growth in sales in the diagnostics market related to increased demand for our medical imaging products and continued growth in our prenatal offerings within the genetic screening business during fiscal year 2010 as compared to fiscal year 2009. The increased demand for our medical imaging products resulted from improved market conditions that lessened the constraints on medical providers’ capital budgets, allowing us to increase our customer base, as well as expanding into non-medical applications. The performance within our genetic screening business was driven by continued expansion of prenatal screening platforms, with broad-based growth experienced across all major geographies, particularly in China with continued expansion of our newborn screening business through our acquisition of Sym-Bio LifeScience Co., Ltd. (“Sym-Bio”) in fiscal year 2009. In the research market, demand for our reagents and

 

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instrumentation was encouraging in the academic sector. We saw strong demand for our high-end Opera® cellular imaging systems, EnSpire™ plate readers and proprietary Alpha detection reagents, which are all specifically developed to address the growing needs of the academic sector. We are refocusing resources to meet our pharmaceutical customer’s evolving needs. As these customers shift their spending on downstream technologies in pre-clinical research, we are well positioned with our in-vivo imaging offering, available through our newly acquired VisEn business. As the rising cost of healthcare continues to be one of the critical issues facing our customers, we anticipate that even with continued pressure on lab budgets and credit availability, the benefits of providing earlier detection of disease, which can result in savings of long-term health care costs as well as creating better outcomes for patients, are increasingly valued and we expect to see continued growth in these markets.

 

In our Environmental Health segment, our laboratory services business enables our customers to drive efficiencies, increase production time and reduce maintenance costs, all of which continue to be critical for our customers. During fiscal year 2010, we continued to grow by adding new customers to our OneSource® multivendor service offering, which we expanded in markets beyond our traditional customer base and services. Sales of environmental, food and consumer safety and testing products grew in fiscal year 2010 due to the continued global need for robust contaminant identification solutions, particularly for trace metals analysis in water. This trend drove the demand for our inorganic analysis solutions such as our Optima 7000 and our recently launched NexION® mass spectrometer. We also continued to experience strong demand for quality and safety assurance testing equipment in food and pharmaceuticals throughout the global supply chain. In addition, we continued to see signs of recovery in our traditional chemical markets with the reduction of constraints on capital purchases to rebuild capacity as a result of the cyclical recovery and increased demand after an extended period of delayed capital investments. We believe that the need for increased inspection, testing and tracking of contaminants will continue to drive increased demand for our products.

 

Our consolidated gross margins decreased approximately 60 basis points in fiscal year 2010 as compared to fiscal year 2009 due to changes in product mix, with growth in sales of lower gross margin product offerings, partially offset by productivity improvements and cost containment initiatives. Our consolidated operating margin improved approximately 120 basis points in fiscal year 2010 as compared to fiscal year 2009, primarily the result of increased sales volume and cost containment initiatives, partially offset by restructuring activities, increased pension expenses, initial costs on key growth initiatives and the early stage dilution from our recent acquisitions, specifically Signature Genomic and VisEn.

 

We believe we are well positioned to continue to take advantage of the improved spending trends in our end markets and to promote our efficiencies in markets where current conditions may increase demand for certain services. Overall, we believe that our strategic focus on Human Health and Environmental Health coupled with our breadth of end markets, deep portfolio of technologies and applications, leading market positions, global scale and financial strength will provide us with a strong foundation for continued growth.

 

Consolidated Results of Continuing Operations

 

Sales

 

2010 Compared to 2009. Sales for fiscal year 2010 were $1,704.3 million, as compared to $1,550.8 million for fiscal year 2009, an increase of $153.6 million, or 10%, which includes an approximate 2% increase in sales attributable to acquisitions and no net impact from changes in foreign exchange rates. The analysis in the remainder of this paragraph compares segment sales for fiscal year 2010 as compared to fiscal year 2009 and includes the effect of foreign exchange rate fluctuations and acquisitions. The total increase in sales reflects a $64.7 million, or 9%, increase in our Human Health segment sales, due to an increase in diagnostics market sales of $54.5 million and an increase in research market sales of $10.2 million. Our Environmental Health segment sales increased $88.9 million, or 11%, due to increases in environmental and safety and industrial markets sales of $47.5 million, and an increase in laboratory services market sales of $41.4 million.

 

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2009 Compared to 2008. Sales for fiscal year 2009 were $1,550.8 million, as compared to $1,659.7 million for fiscal year 2008, a decrease of $108.9 million, or 7%, which includes an approximate 3% decrease in sales attributable to unfavorable changes in foreign exchange rates and an approximate 1% increase from acquisitions. The analysis in the remainder of this paragraph compares segment sales for fiscal year 2009 as compared to fiscal year 2008 and includes the effect of foreign exchange rate fluctuations and acquisitions. The total decrease in sales reflects a $37.0 million, or 5%, decrease in our Human Health segment sales, due to a decrease in diagnostics market sales of $22.8 million and a decrease in research market sales of $14.2 million. Our Environmental Health segment sales decreased $71.9 million, or 8%, due to decreases in environmental and safety and industrial markets sales of $81.7 million, partially offset by an increase in laboratory services market sales of $9.8 million.

 

Cost of Sales

 

2010 Compared to 2009. Cost of sales for fiscal year 2010 was $945.7 million, as compared to $851.8 million for fiscal year 2009, an increase of approximately $93.9 million, or 11%. As a percentage of sales, cost of sales increased to 55.5% in fiscal year 2010 from 54.9% in fiscal year 2009, resulting in a decrease in gross margin of approximately 60 basis points to 44.5% in fiscal year 2010 from 45.1% in fiscal year 2009. Amortization of intangible assets increased and was $42.5 million for fiscal year 2010, as compared to $36.3 million for fiscal year 2009. Stock option expense decreased and was $0.6 million for fiscal year 2010, as compared to $1.2 million for fiscal year 2009. The amortization of purchase accounting adjustments to record the inventory from certain acquisitions completed in fiscal year 2009 added an expense of approximately $1.1 million for fiscal year 2009. The decrease in gross margin was primarily the result of changes in product mix, with growth in sales in fiscal year 2010 primarily of lower gross margin product offerings, partially offset by increased sales volume, productivity improvements and cost containment initiatives.

 

2009 Compared to 2008. Cost of sales for fiscal year 2009 was $851.8 million, as compared to $926.0 million for fiscal year 2008, a decrease of approximately $74.2 million, or 8%. As a percentage of sales, cost of sales decreased to 54.9% in fiscal year 2009 from 55.8% in fiscal year 2008, resulting in an increase in gross margin of approximately 90 basis points to 45.1% in fiscal year 2009 from 44.2% in fiscal year 2008. Amortization of intangible assets increased and was $36.3 million for fiscal year 2009, as compared to $35.7 million for fiscal year 2008. Stock option expense decreased and was $1.2 million for fiscal year 2009, as compared to $1.4 million for fiscal year 2008. The amortization of purchase accounting adjustments to record the inventory from certain acquisitions completed in fiscal year 2009 added an expense of approximately $1.1 million for fiscal year 2009. The increase in gross margin was primarily the result of the combined favorable impact of changes in product mix, especially growth in sales of higher gross margin product offerings, productivity improvements and cost containment initiatives, partially offset by lower demand.

 

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

 

2010 Compared to 2009. Selling, general and administrative expenses for fiscal year 2010 were $490.7 million, as compared to $468.3 million for fiscal year 2009, an increase of approximately $22.4 million, or 5%. As a percentage of sales, selling, general and administrative expenses were 28.8% in fiscal year 2010, compared to 30.2% in fiscal year 2009. Amortization of intangible assets increased and was $16.6 million for fiscal year 2010, as compared to $15.8 million for fiscal year 2009. Stock option expense decreased and was $5.1 million for fiscal year 2010, as compared to $6.3 million for fiscal year 2009. The gain on the sale of a facility in Boston, Massachusetts that was damaged in a fire in March 2005 was $3.4 million for fiscal year 2010. Purchase accounting adjustments for contingent consideration and other acquisition costs related to certain acquisitions added an expense of $2.8 million for fiscal year 2010 and $1.7 million for fiscal year 2009. The increase in selling, general and administrative expenses was primarily the result of increased sales and marketing expenses, particularly in emerging territories, increased pension expense and foreign exchange, partially offset by cost containment initiatives.

 

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2009 Compared to 2008. Selling, general and administrative expenses for fiscal year 2009 were $468.3 million, as compared to $486.4 million for fiscal year 2008, a decrease of approximately $18.1 million, or 4%. As a percentage of sales, selling, general and administrative expenses were 30.2% in fiscal year 2009, compared to 29.3% in fiscal year 2008. Amortization of intangible assets increased and was $15.8 million for fiscal year 2009, as compared to $15.0 million for fiscal year 2008. Stock option expense decreased and was $6.3 million for fiscal year 2009, as compared to $7.3 million for fiscal year 2008. Purchase accounting adjustments for contingent consideration and other acquisition costs related to certain acquisitions completed in fiscal year 2009 added an expense of approximately $1.7 million for fiscal year 2009. The decrease in selling, general and administrative expenses was primarily the result of cost containment initiatives, partially offset by increased sales and marketing expenses, particularly in emerging territories, increased pension expenses and foreign exchange.

 

Research and Development Expenses

 

2010 Compared to 2009. Research and development expenses for fiscal year 2010 were $95.4 million, as compared to $90.8 million for fiscal year 2009, an increase of $4.6 million, or 5%. As a percentage of sales, research and development expenses decreased to 5.6% in fiscal year 2010, as compared to 5.9% in fiscal year 2009. Amortization of intangible assets decreased and was $1.6 million for fiscal year 2010, as compared to $2.0 million for fiscal year 2009. Research and development expenses also included stock option expense of $0.4 million for each of the fiscal years 2010 and 2009. We directed research and development efforts similarly during fiscal years 2010 and 2009, primarily toward the diagnostics and research markets within our Human Health segment, and the environmental and safety, and laboratory service and support markets within our Environmental Health segment, in order to help accelerate our growth initiatives.

 

2009 Compared to 2008. Research and development expenses for fiscal year 2009 were $90.8 million, as compared to $93.0 million for fiscal year 2008, a decrease of $2.3 million, or 2%. As a percentage of sales, research and development expenses increased to 5.9% in fiscal year 2009, as compared to 5.6% in fiscal year 2008. Amortization of intangible assets decreased and was $2.0 million for fiscal year 2009, as compared to $2.1 million for fiscal year 2008. Research and development expenses also included stock option expense of $0.4 million for each of the fiscal years 2009 and 2008. We directed research and development efforts similarly during fiscal years 2009 and 2008, primarily toward the diagnostics and research markets within our Human Health segment, and the environmental and safety, and laboratory service and support markets within our Environmental Health segment, in order to help accelerate our growth initiatives.

 

Restructuring and Lease Charges, Net

 

We have undertaken a series of restructuring actions related to the impact of acquisitions and divestitures, alignment with our growth strategy and the integration of our business units. Restructuring and lease charges, net, for fiscal year 2010 were a $19.0 million charge, as compared to an $18.0 million charge for fiscal year 2009 and a $6.7 million charge for fiscal year 2008.

 

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The following table summarizes our restructuring accrual balances and related activity by restructuring plan during fiscal years 2010, 2009 and 2008:

 

    Balance
at
12/30/2007
    2008
Charges
and
Changes
in
Estimates,
net
    2008
Amounts
paid
    Balance
at
12/28/2008
    2009
Charges
and
Changes
in
Estimates,
net
    2009
Amounts
paid
    Balance
at
01/03/2010
    2010
Charges
    2010
Reclassi-
fication
of
Deferred
Gain
    2010
Amounts
paid
    2010
Changes
in
Estimates
    Balance
at
01/02/2011
 

Previous Plans

  $ 12,654      $ 7,783      $ (11,220   $ 9,217      $ (684 )   $ (2,756   $ 5,777      $ —        $ —        $ (1,501   $ (542   $ 3,734   

Q1 2009 Plan

    —          —          —          —          7,191        (3,983     3,208        —          —          (1,360     (1,235     613   

Q3 2009 Plan

    —          —          —          —          10,607        (5,242     5,365        —          —          (2,778     (497     2,090   

Q2 2010 Plan

    —          —          —          —          —          —          —          10,802        143        (6,693     —          4,252   

Q4 2010 Plan

    —          —          —          —          —          —          —          10,365        2,840        (1,283     —          11,922   
                                                                                               

Restructuring

    12,654        7,783        (11,220     9,217        17,114        (11,981     14,350        21,167        2,983        (13,615     (2,274     22,611   

Lease charges

    3,115        (383     (377     2,355        874        (1,147     2,082        70        —          (1,666     —          486   
                                                                                               

Total restructuring and lease charges

  $ 15,769      $ 7,400      $ (11,597   $ 11,572      $ 17,988      $ (13,128   $ 16,432      $ 21,237      $ 2,983      $ (15,281   $ (2,274   $ 23,097   
                                                                                               

 

The restructuring plan for the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2010 was intended principally to shift resources to higher growth geographic regions and end markets. The restructuring plans for the second quarter of fiscal year 2010 and the third quarter of fiscal year 2009 were intended principally to reduce resources in response to the continued economic downturn and its impact on demand in certain end markets and to shift resources to higher growth geographic regions and end markets. The restructuring plan for the first quarter of fiscal year 2009 was intended principally to reduce resources in response to the economic downturn and its impact on demand in certain end markets. The activities associated with these plans have been reported as restructuring expenses and are included as a component of operating expenses from continuing operations. We expect the impact of immediate cost savings from these restructuring plans on operating results and cash flows to approximately offset the increased spending in higher growth regions and the decline in revenue from certain products, respectively. We expect the impact of future cost savings from these restructuring activities on operating results and cash flows to be negligible, as we will incur offsetting costs.

 

Q4 2010 Plan

 

During the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2010, our management approved a plan to shift resources to higher growth geographic regions and end markets (our “Q4 2010 Plan”). As a result of our Q4 2010 Plan, we recognized a $5.6 million pre-tax restructuring charge in our Human Health segment related to a workforce reduction from reorganization activities and the closure of excess facility space. We also recognized a $7.6 million pre-tax restructuring charge in our Environmental Health segment related to a workforce reduction from reorganization activities and the closure of excess facility space. The restructuring costs for the closure of excess facility space was offset by the recognition of a $2.8 million gain that had been deferred from a previous sales-leaseback transaction on this facility.

 

As part of our Q4 2010 Plan, we reduced headcount by 113 employees. All notifications and actions related to our Q4 2010 Plan were completed by January 2, 2011. All employee relationships have been severed and we anticipate that the remaining severance payments of $7.9 million for workforce reductions will be completed by the end of the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2012. We also anticipate that the remaining payments of $4.1 million for the closure of excess facility space will be paid through fiscal year 2022, in accordance with the terms of the applicable leases.

 

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The following table summarizes the components of our Q4 2010 Plan activity recognized by segment:

 

     Human Health      Environmental Health      Total  
     (In thousands)  

Severance

   $ 4,220       $ 4,575       $ 8,795   

Closure of excess facility space, net of deferred gain

     1,227         343         1,570   
                          

Total

     5,447         4,918         10,365   

Reclassification of deferred gain on excess facility space

     126         2,714         2,840   
                          

Total

   $ 5,573       $ 7,632       $ 13,205   
                          

 

Q2 2010 Plan

 

During the second quarter of fiscal year 2010, our management approved a plan to reduce resources in response to the continued economic downturn and its impact on demand in certain end markets and to shift resources to higher growth geographic regions and end markets (our “Q2 2010 Plan”). As a result of our Q2 2010 Plan, we recognized a $7.0 million pre-tax restructuring charge in our Human Health segment related to a workforce reduction from reorganization activities and the closure of excess facility space. The restructuring costs for the closure of excess facility space was offset by the recognition of a $0.1 million gain that had been deferred from a previous sales-leaseback transaction on this facility. We also recognized a $3.9 million pre-tax restructuring charge in our Environmental Health segment related to a workforce reduction from reorganization activities.

 

As part of our Q2 2010 Plan, we reduced headcount by 115 employees. All notifications and actions related to our Q2 2010 Plan were completed by July 4, 2010. All employee relationships have been severed and we anticipate that the remaining severance payments of $2.2 million for workforce reductions will be completed by the end of the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2011. We also anticipate that the remaining payments of $2.1 million for the closure of excess facility space will be paid through fiscal year 2022, in accordance with the terms of the applicable lease.

 

The following table summarizes the components of our Q2 2010 Plan activity recognized by segment:

 

     Human Health      Environmental Health      Total  
     (In thousands)  

Severance

   $ 5,146       $ 3,921       $ 9,067   

Closure of excess facility space, net of deferred gain

     1,735         —           1,735   
                          

Total

   $ 6,881       $ 3,921       $ 10,802   

Reclassification of deferred gain on excess facility space

     143         —           143   
                          

Total

   $ 7,024       $ 3,921       $ 10,945   
                          

 

Q3 2009 Plan

 

During the third quarter of fiscal year 2009, our management approved a plan to reduce resources in anticipation of the economic downturn and its impact on demand in certain end markets and to shift resources to higher growth geographic regions and end markets (our “Q3 2009 Plan”). As a result of our Q3 2009 Plan, we recognized a $4.3 million pre-tax restructuring charge in our Human Health segment related to a workforce reduction from reorganization activities and the closure of an excess facility. We also recognized a $6.3 million pre-tax restructuring charge in our Environmental Health segment related to a workforce reduction from reorganization activities. During fiscal year 2010, we recorded a pre-tax restructuring reversal of $0.5 million relating to our Q3 2009 Plan due to lower than expected costs associated with the workforce reductions in Europe within both of our Human Health and Environmental Health segments.

 

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As part of our Q3 2009 Plan, we reduced headcount by 131 employees. All notifications and actions related to our Q3 2009 Plan were completed by October 4, 2009. All employee relationships have been severed and we anticipate that the remaining severance payments of $2.0 million for workforce reductions will be completed by the end of the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2011. We also anticipate that the remaining payments of $0.1 million for the closure of the excess facility will be paid through fiscal year 2011, in accordance with the terms of the applicable lease.

 

The following table summarizes the components of our Q3 2009 Plan activity recognized by segment:

 

     Human Health      Environmental Health      Total  
     (In thousands)  

Severance

   $ 3,824       $ 6,343       $ 10,167   

Closure of excess facility

     440         —           440   
                          

Total

   $ 4,264       $ 6,343       $ 10,607   
                          

 

Q1 2009 Plan

 

During the first quarter of fiscal year 2009, our management approved a plan to reduce resources in anticipation of the economic downturn and its impact on demand in certain end markets (our “Q1 2009 Plan”). As a result of our Q1 2009 Plan, we recognized a $4.8 million pre-tax restructuring charge in our Human Health segment related to a workforce reduction from reorganization activities and the closure of an excess facility. We also recognized a $2.4 million pre-tax restructuring charge in our Environmental Health segment related to a workforce reduction from reorganization activities and the closure of an excess facility. During fiscal year 2010, we recorded a pre-tax restructuring reversal of $1.2 million relating to our Q1 2009 Plan due to lower than expected costs associated with the workforce reductions in Europe within both of our Human Health and Environmental Health segments.

 

As part of our Q1 2009 Plan, we reduced headcount by 106 employees. All notifications and actions related to our Q1 2009 Plan were completed by April 5, 2009. All employee relationships have been severed and we anticipate that the remaining severance payments of $0.4 million for workforce reductions will be completed by the end of the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2011. We also anticipate that the remaining payments of $0.2 million for the closure of the excess facility will be paid through fiscal year 2012, in accordance with the terms of the applicable lease.

 

The following table summarizes the components of our Q1 2009 Plan activity recognized by segment:

 

     Human Health      Environmental Health      Total  
     (In thousands)  

Severance

   $ 4,551       $ 2,182       $ 6,733   

Closure of excess facility

     224         234         458   
                          

Total

   $ 4,775       $ 2,416       $ 7,191   
                          

 

Previous Restructuring and Integration Plans

 

The principal actions of the restructuring and integration plans from fiscal years 2001 through 2008 were workforce reductions related to the integration of our businesses in order to reduce costs and achieve operational efficiencies as well as workforce reductions in both our Human Health and Environmental Health segments by shifting resources into geographic regions and product lines that are more consistent with our growth strategy. During fiscal year 2010, we paid $1.5 million related to these plans, recorded a reversal of $0.9 million related to lower than expected costs associated with workforce reductions in Europe within both the Human Health and Environmental Health segments, and recorded a charge of $0.4 million to reduce the estimated sublease rental

 

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payments reasonably expected to be obtained for an excess facility in Europe within our Environmental Health segment. As of January 2, 2011, we had approximately $3.7 million of remaining liabilities associated with these restructuring and integration plans, primarily for residual lease obligations related to closed facilities in both our Human Health and Environmental Health segments. Payments for these leases, the terms of which vary in length, will be made through fiscal year 2022.

 

Lease Charges

 

To facilitate the sale of a business in fiscal year 2001, we were required to guarantee the lease obligations that the buyer assumed related to the lease for the building in which the business operated. The lease obligations continue through March 2011. While we assigned our interest in the lease to the buyer at the time of the sale of the business, the buyer subsequently defaulted under the lease, and the lessor sought reimbursement from us. We recorded a charge of $2.7 million in fiscal year 2007 related to payments for this lease obligation. The buyer filed for bankruptcy protection during the third quarter of fiscal year 2008 and was delinquent in making both its lease payments and payments for certain building expenses. The buyer ceased operations in the third quarter of fiscal year 2009 and vacated the property. We recorded an additional charge of $0.9 million during the third quarter of fiscal year 2009 related to waste removal and restoration costs, and reduced the estimated sublease rental payments reasonably expected to be obtained for the property. We also recorded an additional charge of $0.1 million during the second quarter of fiscal year 2010 to further reduce the estimated sublease rental payments reasonably expected to be obtained for the property. We were required to make payments for these obligations of $1.7 million during fiscal year 2010, $1.1 million during fiscal year 2009, and $0.4 million during fiscal year 2008. The remaining balance of this accrual as of January 2, 2011 was $0.5 million.

 

Interest and Other (Income) Expense, Net

 

Interest and other (income) expense, net, consisted of the following:

 

     2010     2009     2008  
     (In thousands)  

Interest income

   $ (832   $ (1,035   $ (4,023

Interest expense

     15,891        16,008        23,652   

Gains on step acquisition

     (25,586     —          —     

Discontinuance and settlement of forward interest rate contracts

     —          —          17,478   

Gain