VWR is a global laboratory supply and distribution company founded in the 1850s. It has revenues of over $4 billion annually and operates in over 25 countries with 8,000 associates. Currently owned by Madison Dearborn Partners, VWR provides products, services, and solutions to customers in industries like life science, pharmaceutical, industrial, and education.

1. ABOUT
A global laboratory supply and distribution company founded in 1850s
Main mission is to enable the advancement of science throughout the world
It belongs to a scientific products distributor industry with over 1,200,000 product catalogs
Ranked #91 in 2006 and #77 in 2005 in Forbes list of largest American private companies
It has revenues of $4.1 billion in 2011 and $3.64 billion in 2010
A total of 8,000 associates in more than 25 countries
Currently owned by the Madison Dearborn Partners
Website is www.vwr.com

2. HISTORY
1852 John Taylor arrived in California to sell 1986 The company, then known as Univar
glassware and serve the mining and laboratory Corporation, restructured into two companies: the
markets existing Univar Corporation and the newly formed
VWR Corporation.
1883
1995
The first John Taylor Company catalog was
produced, including 106 pages of apparatus and 11 The company changed its name to VWR
pages of chemicals. Scientific Products Corporation.
1950 Seattle-based Van Waters & Rogers, Inc., 2000 It became VWR International, Inc.
bought the business from John Taylor.
2007 It finally become VWR International, LLC
1966 Van Waters & Rogers, Inc., and Pacific
Corporation merged to become VWR United
Corporation.

3. ACQUISITION
April 2011 Anachemia Canada Inc. Canada
April 2011 Trenka Industriebedarf Handelsgesellschaft m.b.H. Austria
February 2011 AMRESCO Inc. United States
September 2010 LABART SP. Z O.O. Poland
August 2010 E BOS Group Limited New Zealand
October 2009 OneMed Lab (OneMed Group) Finland
October 2009 X-treme Geek United States
October 2008 Omnilab ag. Switzerland
August 2008 Specktrum-3D Kft. Hungary
April 2008 Jencons Scientific Ltd. United Kingdom
November 2007 Omnilabo International bv. The Netherlands
July 2007 Bie & Berntsen a/s Denmark
June 2007 Services Center in Coimbatore India
March 2007 KMF Laborchemie Handels GmbH Germany

4. PEOPLE
John M. Ballbach
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Gregory L. Cowan
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Manuel A.H. Brocke-Benz
Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Europe, Lab
Distribution and Services
Eddy Wu
Senior Vice President and President of Asia Pacific
Theodore C. Pulkownik
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development

5. PEOPLE
Paul Dumas
Senior Vice President, Human Resources
Charles Patel
Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer
George Van Kula
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Jon Michael Colyer
Vice President and General Manager of Science
Education
Theresa Balog
Vice President, Corporate Controller

6. LOCATIONS
Europe
Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy,
Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and
United Kingdom
North America
Canada, Mexico and USA
Asia Pacific
Australia, India, New Zealand, People's Republic of China and Singapore
Main Headquarter
VWR International
Radnor Corporate Center
Building One, Suite 200
100 Matsonford Road, P.O. Box 6660
Radnor, PA 19087

7. PRODUCT AND SERVICES
VWR distributes a set of highly diversified product line to most of the
world's top pharmaceutical and biotech companies, industrial,
educational and governmental organizations.
VWR further supports its customers by providing onsite services,
storeroom management, product procurement, supply chain systems
integration and technical services.
VWR services the industrial, government, life science, education,
electronics and pharmaceutical markets as a leading worldwide
distributor of scientific equipment, supplies, chemicals and furniture.

8. PRODUCT AND SERVICES

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10. PRODUCT AND SERVICES

11. VWR ACCOUNT SPECIFIC
Operations Manager
Mohd Khalifi Hassan
NA TL
Christopher Rajakumar
APAC TL
Christopher Nicholas Selvadass
VWR Account Headcount - 13

12. SUPPORT BOUNDARIES
ARS Active Directory
SAP
Oracle
Webex and Landesk
BES Blackberry Enterprise server
Kubra
MPL Admin
Lotus Notes
ACE
ADP Etime
Remedy/SRM
Business Warehouse
Learning Center
Citrix