Lab Equipment & ReagentsFounded 1952
Bio-Rad Laboratories
Hercules, California, United States
Manufacturer of life-science research reagents, chromatography resins, PCR/digital PCR instruments and clinical-diagnostics test systems, serving academic, biopharma and clinical-lab customers.
- Segment
- Lab Equipment & Reagents
- Headquarters
- Hercules, California, United States
- Founded
- 1952
- Website
- www.bio-rad.com
Notable facts
- Founded June 16, 1952 by David and Alice Schwartz, UC Berkeley graduates, in a 1,600-square-foot Quonset hut in West Berkeley, California.
- Incorporated in 1957 and moved headquarters to Richmond, California in 1958 before later relocating to its current Hercules, California headquarters.
- Went public in 1966, selling 40,000 shares at $3.50 each, and opened its first international office in Munich the same year.
Sources. This profile is compiled from public reference data, WebSearch-verified against source 1 · source 2. Data as of 2026-07-14. See methodology.
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