BS very good?? Umm, not.

I just laugh so hard. IVGN bought LTI 10 years ago then went about to destroy any vestige of the LTI name, quality and reputation. Now IVGN has reinvented itself as of all things LTI and moving operations back to Frederick Maryland. Have we come full circle.... no the tight workforce that once made up the real LTI was dispersed all over, each with a bitter taste in their mouth at the cras way that IVGN took over and tossed the quality oriented workforce aside for a " get it done quick and cheap forget quality" crew of 20 somethings. Now they are trying to impress us with the LTI name... nja same old "Quality does not matter" IVGN plan.

When is that cyborg pile of ---- running marketing (AC) going to get the boot?

Rumor is that Starlight has been sh!tcanned.

What? GL has been telling us investors that there would be Starlight machines in the hands of alpha testers next quarter! But maybe not until all those 100 SOLIDs he talked about are installed at the Ignite Institute, creating the largest sequencing facility in North America. But then what to make of the $300+ million thrown at Ion Torrent? Given the Visagen issues, Ion Torrent shouldn't be counting on any additional "milestone" payments. What you get for business strategy when you've got a bunch of BS artists going around lying to each other internally.

$25M from what, Visigen acquisition? Rumor is that Starlight has been sh!tcanned.

I am sure Illumina pays well.

The deal was set up so that the remaining $25M would never be paid to her.

LIFE HR "talent retention" at their finest.

Good on HK. Who is going to take over her role? Big shoes to fill.

what do you mean by that?

Illumina scored. Wonder if they are getting into Human ID next?

HK?

Looks like HK has moved on to greener pastures....

How big is the animal health business now?

Hey, be nice! Orlando may be stupid lap dog, but he's a REALLY nice guy.

At least you acknowledge the general sarcasm of your post. But let's at least give you another chance. Have you got anything credible to share?

And I hear they transferred a "top notch" regional manager from the east to the west coast. And yes Mr. Too General, that is sarcasm. Another great move on Life, spread the bad management, good luck west coast sales reps.

Indeed.

If you dont know what Elbonia is, go here:

http://www.worldlingo.com/ma/enwiki/en/Elbonia

Elbonian business 101, sell them the razors and give them the razor blades...make it up in volume !

"Life just bought Ion Torrent."

Life will suck everything they can out of this company and force it
to adapt its strategy of maximizing profits on the instrument.
Think about it:
If the equipment replaces the SOLiD and the high throughput instruments, like the 3730, their sequencing instruments product line will resume to this equipment and the low / medium throughput (1, 8 and 24 caps).
If 75% of Life Technologies revenue comes from the sale of reagents and this instrument (ION torrent's) needs virtually no reagents, how will they survive?

This must be the biggest piece of bullshit seen in post war era
http://www.lifetechnologies.com/content/dam/LifeTech/Documents/PDFs/2009...

Harry G. Frankfurt's theory on the era of bullshit just got a poster child. BTW, life technologies will solve the biggest 21st century problems.

"Again, you're behind the times"

lol. Nope.

Again, you're behind the times. BS did leave; she's very good but would never claim to be essentially running HID. More importantly PC has moved no from HID to other things in Life. Good for him. However HID remain in good hands with good talent running good business.

Is this LC? Wow. That's quite a development. Any idea where she's going?

I heard the person who basically manages HID is leaving and she is pretty awesome. So expect things to go downhill.

You're behind the times. Applied markets became strictly HID several months ago, and it continues to grow as strongly as before. Animal health went to MBS and is launching a number on new USDA products.

Anybody knows what's happening at AB Applied Markets division? No new products coming out for food analysis, AOAC validations are stuck...possible divestiture area?

my wife works in the Carlsbad location and they have been wonderful to her.

The culture is not good there nor is it very good at quite a few sites. They seem to suck the air out of everyplace they acquire. They need Psycho Dave to go boost morale.

Wow someone struck a nerve.

"I am looking at taking at job in Carlsbad for Life Technologies. Any truth to the rumor that it is a sweatshop? I heard that someone even died from a heart attack at the stress in R&D? Is this a new reality in this economy or is that just "part of the culture" of Life?"

Take it somewhere else low life, like back to your gutter. Your comments are completely cheap and even if we believed the comment about talking at job at Carlsbad we don't want you. Have some respect for the family and what they are going through.

Life is like a box of chocolates. All the bad pieces remain in the box and go stale because nobody wants them.

Any New News at Life?? Looking For More info
About it

Yes - Life Tech wants to kill its staff. "It's company policy to give you the plague" (-CM Burns).

I am looking at taking at job in Carlsbad for Life Technologies. Any truth to the rumor that it is a sweatshop? I heard that someone even died from a heart attack at the stress in R&D? Is this a new reality in this economy or is that just "part of the culture" of Life?

"Scotland will be downsized."

What does this idiotic statement mean? Are some of the islands to declare independence? Are the English or Irish planning to invade and diminish Scotland's realm? Or will the earth simply open up and swallow swathes of the country?

Really, you should give a little more consideration to the drivel that you post here.

Layoffs happened at the India site as well.
Some pretty good guys were asked to leave because of the sorry state of the Indian Management team and their American masters.

Layoffs happened at the India site as well.
Some pretty good guys were asked to leave because of the sorry state of the Indian Management team and their American masters.
God bless Life Tech

Is this guy still at LIFE?
Scott Conradson (Vice President, Advanced Technology and Systems R&D, Genetic Systems at Life Technologies)

This guy's wrtitten English is still at grade school level, but is VP for us!!!!

"P&L responsibility for the Ciphergen mass spectrometry tools acquisition, including business and technology strategy, company integration, leading marketing and R&D, working closely sales on international sales, conceiving and leading partnering activities."---from linkedin

Hey! With initials like BP do you think we could somehow slam him for the gulf oil spill? It would be closer to reality than some of these posts.

Tried out the links. Good luck with the social networking and the matress. Looks like you're going all the way.

I can name a couple. He was in Baxter Dade in Miami before the site was closed. He was also at the Botox place in California. He has been around-one of the directors showed me his resume. By the way, the dishwasher was eventually fired. He didn't wash dishes, he sat around and read newspapers while the dishes piled up. I have a position at BP's level in another company and while he certainly had a debacle to try to put together in a cohesive way, I was not overly impressed with him. May have known manufacturing but not really a visionary or analytical thinker. There was another guy there, DC, who was capable of running the show but I think he may be looking at retirement soon.

I'll bet BP and his wife get into tape-LOL

Hasn't LIFE outsourced dishwashing to India?

For Heaven's sake even BP has a sense of humor. I think it is the message he is giving that is important. People know how to do their job, managers don't need to make every decision and managers do need to delegate. And name BP's last 13 positions.

BP is "empowering the dishwasher". His comment, not mine.
He's been using this same script in his 13 positions.

Finally you're beginning to use your gray matter. Qiagen, Illumina and Sigma mostly compete in certain market segments rather than across the board with Life Technologies. As such, LT and Sigma, LT and Illumina, LT and Qiagen are typically the top two companies in the segments where they compete and therefore typically growing faster than market.

Of course I'm using the mean or median across 50,000 SKUs. The logic still holds that LT is growing because of volume not because of price

Where are your facts? Speak with data not speculation or opinion.

On revenue outgrowing market, for Q1 2010, LIFE beat Sigma year on year, underperformed Illumina, Qiagen, and Thermo. I would consider those companies to be a pretty good definition of the "market". So from public data, I would conclude that LIFE revenue is not outgrowing the market.

On price increases, I'm sure with 50,000+ SKUs, you can claim that your mean or median price increase is single digits. There are thousands of products with no price increases (and minimal sales) for 2010. There have also been products (without improvement or size/unit changes) with triple digit price increases in the last year.

Where are your facts? Speak with data not speculation or opinion. Business as a whole growing upper single digits/low double digits. Price increases don't even break a single percentage point. All public domain.

...Revenues outgrowing market, improved profitability...

Unfortunately, your revenue growth isn't matching your price increases, indicating decreasing sales in many product categories.

It's called continuous improvement. Manufacturing will always change and before you let your cynicism say it, we know the change needs to be a positive one. If you hadn't noticed the company has changed. Revenues outgrowing market, improved profitability, reinvestment into the business and operations. Keep watching and it will change some more. Every day, every week.