Alcon

This article is about the medical company. For the surname, see Alcón. For other uses, see Alcon (disambiguation).
Alcon Inc.
Native name
Alcon AG
Company typePublic (Aktiengesellschaft)
IndustryOphthalmology
Founded1945; 79 years ago (1945) in Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Headquarters
Fort Worth, Texas
,
United States
Key people
David Endicott (CEO)
Products
RevenueIncrease US$9.46 billion (2023)
Increase US$1.04 billion (2023)
Increase US$974 million (2023)
Total assetsIncrease US$29.6 billion (2023)
Total equityIncrease US$20.6 billion (2023)
Number of employees
25,315 (FTE, 2023)
Websitealcon.com
Footnotes / references
[1]
Alcon offices in Johns Creek, Georgia

Alcon Inc. (German: Alcon AG) is a Swiss-American pharmaceutical and medical device company specializing in eye care products. It has a paper headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland but its operational headquarters are in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, where it employs about 4,500 people.[2]

Alcon was a subsidiary of Novartis until April 2019, when it was spun out into a separate publicly traded company.[3][4] Alcon itself has a number of subsidiaries, including Aerie Pharmaceuticals, focused on therapies for glaucoma and other diseases of the eye, and WaveLight, which develops and manufactures laser eye surgery technologies.[5]

  1. ^ "Alcon Inc. 2023 Annual Report (Form 20-F)". SEC.gov. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 2024-02-27.
  2. ^ Bounds, Jeff (2020-01-22). "The (Alcon) Family Tree: How One Company Seeded a DFW Life Science Legacy". Dallas Innovates. Retrieved 2023-02-28.
  3. ^ "Novartis announces intention to seek shareholder approval for 100% spinoff of Alcon eye care devices business". Alcon.
  4. ^ Smith, Anna (2019-04-10). "Novartis continues to 'reimagine' itself, as Alcon spin-off completed". PharmaTimes. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
  5. ^ "Oberpfälzer Adresse für Augen-Korrektur". www.onetz.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-10-20.