HOPKINTON, Mass., July 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Caliper Life
Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:
CALP), a leading provider of tools and services for life
science companies, today announced that Kevin Hrusovsky, President
and CEO, has been invited to ring The NASDAQ Stock Market Opening
Bell on Tuesday, July 19th and will be joined by family, management
and several strategic customers to participate in this special
event. This event highlights Caliper’s successful transformation
into a leading diversified life sciences tools company.
Caliper’s strategy is to commercialize disruptive technologies
that revolutionize and personalize health care through improved
patient diagnosis, prognosis and treatment by developing
market-leading tools and services for pre-clinical and clinical
imaging, digital pathology, sample preparation for next generation
sequencing, molecular and companion diagnostics, stem cell
research, as well as the development of biotherapeutics and
vaccines. Over the past seven years, Caliper has grown core
products and services, increased margins and become operating cash
flow positive by completing several strategic acquisitions and
divesting non-core product lines. Caliper reported
organic revenue growth of over 20% in the first quarter of 2011.
The market has rewarded Caliper’s success with an increase in
its stock price during each of 2009 and 2010 of over 150%, and an
approximate 30% increase year-to-date in 2011.
“Ringing the Opening Bell is a great opportunity to recognize
our families, employees, customers, collaborators and investors for
their dedicated support in building Caliper into a successful high
growth company with strong potential for making life changing
impact in health care. Their hard work and inspiring ‘can do’
attitudes have enabled Caliper to become a diversified, high growth
tools provider with attrac
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