Idexx Laboratories Inc. IDXX

What this company does

IDEXX Laboratories develops, manufactures and distributes diagnostic products and provides services primarily for the companion animal veterinary, livestock, poultry and dairy, and water testing industries, and also manufactures and sells human medical point-of-care diagnostic products. As of December 31, 2025, it had approximately 11,000 regular full-time and part-time employees in approximately 34 countries around the world. It operates primarily through three reportable business segments — Companion Animal Group, Water quality products, and Livestock, Poultry and Dairy — along with an Other operating segment that combines its human medical diagnostic products business with its out-licensing arrangement. Its reference laboratory diagnostic and consulting services reach veterinarians in geographies including the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa and South Korea, through a network of approximately 80 laboratories. The Water segment provides testing solutions and related instrumentation for detection and quantification of microbiological parameters in water. IDEXX was incorporated in Delaware in 1983.

Written from the business description in IDEXX LABORATORIES INC /DE's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 20 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.