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Biotech / Medical : New Brunswick Scientific Co., Inc. (NBSC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Extra Pale who wrote (334)	11/12/2001 12:37:23 PM
From: scaram(o)uche	Respond to of 724

>> Am concerned that NBSC is perhaps just too small to be a player, is someone else grabbing market share? << Fisher does a sensational job of pushing NBSC shakers and additional equipment. Some NBSC products are distributed exclusively through Fisher. I get a quarterly little piece of glitz from Fisher in the mail, and NBSC's products are often highlighted (although they were not featured in the last issue that I rec'd). There is consistent and very visible advertising in GEN. The ads in BioTechniques are less eye-grabbing, but I believe that they're effective. When I was a grad student, one purchased shakers from NBSC. Such was the reputation for reliability. That was thirty years ago, and I honestly don't know if the rep holds. They had a lousy rep for fermentation equipment, but that's dogged them from very early efforts. It's been a few years since I was responsible for equipment selection, but I'd be seriously considering the small footprint freezers if I were outfitting a lab now. So........ my gut tells me that their market share is doing OK.

To: Extra Pale who wrote (334)	11/12/2001 1:01:59 PM
From: richardred	Respond to of 724

Disappointment? IMO-First to make that determination one would have to determine the size of that market, and the growth of that market as a whole . I suspect NBSC is a leader in its niche of specific products, as they do have Fisher for a market distributor. Also I would think since the events that recently happened there could be a resurgence in growth beyond the rate of the past quarter. So, I think its to early to tell. As being to small. IMO- that balances out if your leadership is # 1 in specific products, and improvement is see going forward.