Thermo Fisher Scientific is an American technology service provider headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, formed in 1956 through the merger of several companies. Its New York Stock Exchange code is TMO. The company has an annual revenue of over 20 billion US dollars and approximately 65000 employees worldwide. Its main customer types include pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic laboratories, universities, research institutes and government agencies, as well as environmental and industrial process control equipment manufacturers, providing analytical instruments, equipment, reagents and consumables, software and services for research, analysis, discovery and diagnosis.