Cooper Companies plans to acquire Natural Touch line of soft contact lenses.IRVINE, Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--Feb. 10, 1997--The Cooper Companies Inc. (NYSE/PSE:COO (Cell Of Origin) See mobile positioning. ) Monday announced that, subject to the approval of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC FTC See Federal Trade Commission (FTC). ), it has agreed to acquire in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. the Natural Touch line of opaque contact lenses contact lenses contact npl → verres mpl de contact contact lenses contact npl → Kontaktlinsen pl contact lenses npl from Wesley-Jessen Corp. The company's CooperVision Inc. subsidiary will market these products. Natural Touch products have the ability to change the appearance of the color of the eye. The proposed acquisition furthers CooperVision's strategy of providing practitioners and their patients with specialty contact lenses. Terms of the transaction were not announced. CooperVision, with headquarters in Irvine and additional manufacturing facilities in Huntington Beach Huntington Beach, city (1990 pop. 181,519), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast, across from Santa Catalina Island, in an oil-producing area; inc. 1909. It manufactures aerospace vehicles, aircraft parts, optical instruments, and heat transfer equipment. , Calif.; Rochester, N.Y.; and Ontario and Quebec, Canada, markets a broad range of contact lenses for the vision care market. The Cooper Companies and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market specialty health care products and provide psychiatric psy·chi·at·ric adj. Of or relating to psychiatry. psychiatric adjective Pertaining to psychiatry, mental disorders services. -0- NOTE: An interactive telephone system that provides stock quotes, recent news releases and financial data about the company may be reached toll-free at 800/334-1986. News releases and selected financial data are also available on the World Wide Web at www.coopercos.com . CONTACT: The Cooper Companies Inc. Norris Battin, 714/597-4700 or 714/673-4299 |
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