Thermo Fisher Scientific is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based U.S. science and technology services provider, formed in 1956 by the merger of several companies, NYSE: TMO. The company has annual revenues of more than $20 billion and employs approximately 65,000 people worldwide. Its principal customer types include pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies; hospitals and clinical diagnostic laboratories; universities, research institutes and government agencies; and environmental and industrial process control equipment manufacturers, providing analytical instruments, equipment, reagents and consumables, software and services for research, analysis, discovery and diagnosis.