What Does Abbott Offer?
Abbott primarily serves the medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and nutritional products market. These medical devices are used primarily by various healthcare institutions in several countries. Its established pharmaceuticals business focuses primarily on emerging markets.
Who Pays?
Blood banks, hospitals, commercial laboratories, and clinics, Physicians, Government agencies, Health care facilities, specialty pharmacies, wholesalers, distributors, independent retailers, and Retail consumers
What Are The Alternatives?
Abbott competes with other medical devices companies, such as Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific, and Intuitive Surgical among others. In Diagnostics it competes with Roche among other companies. In established pharmaceuticals business, it competes with Pfizer, and GlaxoSmithKline among others.