Harvard Bioscience is a global developer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative, enabling tools for drug discovery research at pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, universities and government laboratories. HBIO sells approximately 19,000 products to thousands of researchers in 100 countries though its direct sales force, a 1,000-page catalog, various specialty catalogs and a network of distributors, the most notable of which is Amersham Biosciences (formerly APBiotech). HBIO has sales and manufacturing operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria and Belgium. It also has sales facilities in France and Canada.