Radiometer has disappeared from the mediascape – at the potential cost of talented employees

After Radiometer was taken over by US-based Danaher, the Danish company has stepped out of the public eye and now lives a life outside the press spotlight.
Press meeting at Radiometer in December 2003, when US group Danaher Corporation had offered to buy all shares in the Danish company. From left, then-Chairman of the Board Steen Rasborg, Vice Chairman Torben Ballegaard Sørensen and new CEO Peter Kürstein on the far right, who has since been replaced by current CEO Henrik Schimmell Nielsen. | Photo: Jens Dresling
Press meeting at Radiometer in December 2003, when US group Danaher Corporation had offered to buy all shares in the Danish company. From left, then-Chairman of the Board Steen Rasborg, Vice Chairman Torben Ballegaard Sørensen and new CEO Peter Kürstein on the far right, who has since been replaced by current CEO Henrik Schimmell Nielsen. | Photo: Jens Dresling

The walls in the Copenhagen suburb of Brønshøj around once publicly listed and open company Radiometer have symbolically grown thicker and higher since the US group Danaher took over ownership in 2004.

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