Texas, France, NC, Germany....
MA, UK... wait... you will be the next
The BCG management does not understand the business....

I wouldn't say they are still thriving, though. RC is clearly out of power. JR's responsibility is also dramatically reduced.

True, honestly I'm surprised JR is still with BCG. He has injected enough poison in the company to bring any place down. Scum like JR and RC continue to strive while doing their best to ruin good hard working people.

The truth is, the future of Beckman Coulter Genomics is doomed.

Yes, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from RC and JR. Danvers, you are next believe it or not especially with these two making decisions.

The German site will close down as well

Morrisville is closing, effective May 2012.

Of course we at Clinical Data then used the cash and PGx businesses to fund the drug development and when that started to get traction we divested the service business to Beckman, then the CLIA business to Transgenomic and then exited with the drugs being sold to Forrest for more than a billion dollars...sounds like at least a little genius, or am I being disingenuous?

They can always sell the million dollar art collection that is still (?) on the walls in Morrisville, unless of course the staff have already pilfered it.

No surprise .... Look back a couple of yrs @ Webster/DSL. When FJ showed up it was the beginning of the end. He's RC's shutdown man .....

the ship i sinking and JR will soon depart after he lays everyone off

Is anyone left ?????? Anyone home?????

Customers walking away quickly so they will decide the fate regardless of what anyone says. Customer service does not exisit at BCG.

BCG is not profitable. Unqualified personnel and incompetence is rampant. No new business is coming in and worst yet, business is lost to competitors. Suitors would have been GE, but now shutting down maybe the only option.

Someone may see some value in the capital equipment, but beyond that there isn't really much there. Even with that, they don't have many NextGen platforms.

What happens to BCG will they be sold or will Danaher just shut it down? Any ideas on who might buy it if they are sold?""""

BCG is not profitable. Unqualified personnel and incompetence is rampant. No new business is coming in and worst yet, business is lost to competitors. Suitors would have been GE, but now shutting down maybe the only option.

What happens to BCG will they be sold or will Danaher just shut it down? Any ideas on who might buy it if they are sold?

"BCG is dead, they just haven't had the funeral yet."

this is very very true.

So it looks like they have only a few sales people left. Recent sales departures are now to BGI. But talk about jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

Ain't that the truth. How long before they figure that out?

So it looks like they have only a few sales people left. Recent sales departures are now to BGI. But talk about jumping from the frying pan into the fire.

"Just curious - which site this guy was talking about?"

Has to be the most immature rant of anyone that I have ever read. Honestly, is there any wonder why this idiot wasn't offered a full time position? Did he honestly think that BCG owes him any special favor? Regardless, good riddance...what a piece of work!

BCG is dead, they just haven't had the funeral yet.

Is BGC going to hit with any of the "2000" layoffs planned?

Heard more sales people have walked. Guess there is some new openings

It is the Danvers, MA facility

Just curious - which site this guy was talking about?

http://darwinsdeadlift.wordpress.com/2010/08/06/screw-you-corporate-world/

Enjoy the reading!

Three open territories now with another on the way.

Are their any sales people left at Beckman Coulter Genomics?

Seems the BCG folks think they will be long gone as the employees are lining up at the recruiter doors pretty quickly. Resumes being printed faster than government dollar bills.

"We're Better Together" but worth more divvied up and sold. What do you think Danaher would get for the BCG?

Companies that are laying off always post a lot of jobs, it's for PR purposes.

Knowing UK site's operation, it can survive on its own, no matter what happens to Pfizer or any other customers. So does Boston site, if it shed some extra weight. However, the other two are just money sucker and there is no hope of any fix. Problem is that you can't easily transfer service business from one site to another without losing more than half of your customers. what can you do other than simply shuting down those two money suckers?

UK business won't be solid after the Pfizer UK site closes

UK business is solid and profitable, if not particularly strategic.
Danvers is burying a bad service business under the profits from a a concumables gravy train. Watch Danaher crucify BCG leadership for a zero growth service business.

Two new job postings for sales positions at BCG this past week. What's up with that?

What's going to happen to BCG? Rats run when the ship is about to sink. In this case, check who just joined Linkedin job groups or who is soliciting endorsement from former collegues. Smart moves but Definitely not a sign of confidence in the changes to come.

Danaher will find a way to make the acquisition profitable which will not be pleasant for Beckman employees and divisions. What do you think will be the fate or fortune of Beckman Coulter Genomics?

Jerk. Do you have any idea how much money has been ploughed into CLDA over the years to keep it alive?
I hope that when they eventually get bought, there's enough left over to give everyone who owns stock a nice payday.

really?

Well their former parent Clinical Data (CLDA) struck gold on Friday with the FDA and their drug. Guess that end the classic tale of big money coming inmonetizing various assets then exiting with a huge gain, all on the backs of the hard working peons (ofcourse the big money puppets will make milions)

They are growing Fast. . . . .

The folks remaining at BCG do not have the knowledge to fix the problems. New suitors will likely run a fire sale of the separate business units, BCG being one of them, to quickly recover their investment rather than devote resources to problem solving.

Would there be any reason that Beckman would keep this division?

Now Beckman is for sale, who knows what's going to happen to BCG.

With RM gone, and no clear strategy for Morrisville businesses, any guess on when BEC will close NC facility to cut the loss? That will be an official statement that Cogenics integration is a complete bust.

who are you? Someone who is honestly proud to work for BEC?

Who are you? Some fired loser?

Bon voyage to everyone at CLDA - you are still on your journey.
The Cogenics story is so sad. Great people who begun to be successful but the BEC machine had no idea how to enable the people - the ones that make the difference.

Any idea when CLDA, will be taken out by one of the big Pharmas in order to grab their drug candidates ? (Lilly, Pfizer etc...) I see Pfizer has some anti-depressant problems in the press today and we all know of Lilly's patent-cliff. Will these companies also want the patient testing business as well?

Sabotage???

Thinks are getting worse, just like the rest of BCI. Do these people really want to work together? Somehow I smell sabotage. Anyone in the rank still sings the song of MBO?