Swiss-American pharmaceutical and medical device company
This article is about the medical company. For the surname, see Alcón. For other uses, see Alcon (disambiguation).
Alcon Inc.
Company type
Public (Aktiengesellschaft)
Traded as
SIX: ALC
NYSE: ALC
Industry
Ophthalmology
Founded
1945; 79 years ago (1945) in Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Headquarters
Fort Worth, Texas
,
United States
Key people
David Endicott (CEO)
Products
Surgical products
Contact lenses
Over-the-counter products
Revenue
US$9.46 billion (2023)
Operating income
US$1.04 billion (2023)
Net income
US$974 million (2023)
Total assets
US$29.6 billion (2023)
Total equity
US$20.6 billion (2023)
Number of employees
25,315 (FTE, 2023)
Website
alcon.com
Footnotes / references [1]
Alcon offices in Johns Creek, Georgia
Alcon Inc. is a Swiss-American pharmaceutical and medical device company specializing in eye care products. It has a paper headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland but its operational headquarters are in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, where it employs about 4,500 people.[2]
Alcon was a subsidiary of Novartis until April 2019, when it was spun out into a separate publicly traded company.[3][4] Alcon itself has a number of subsidiaries, including Aerie Pharmaceuticals, focused on therapies for glaucoma and other diseases of the eye, and WaveLight, which develops and manufactures laser eye surgery technologies.[5]
^"Alcon Inc. 2023 Annual Report (Form 20-F)". SEC.gov. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 2024-02-27.
^Bounds, Jeff (2020-01-22). "The (Alcon) Family Tree: How One Company Seeded a DFW Life Science Legacy". Dallas Innovates. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
^"Novartis announces intention to seek shareholder approval for 100% spinoff of Alcon eye care devices business". Alcon.
^Smith, Anna (2019-04-10). "Novartis continues to 'reimagine' itself, as Alcon spin-off completed". PharmaTimes. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
^"Oberpfälzer Adresse für Augen-Korrektur". www.onetz.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-20.
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