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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]
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and the Mexican state of Baja California to the south.
California English (or Californian English) collectively refers to varieties of American English native to California.As California became one of the most ethnically diverse U.S. states, English speakers from a wide variety of backgrounds began to pick up different linguistic elements from one another and also developed new ones; the result is both divergence and convergence within Californian ...
In the early 16th-century romance novel Las sergas de Esplandián ( The Adventures of Esplandián ), California was the name of a mythical island populated only by black warrior women. The popular Spanish novel was printed in several editions, with the earliest surviving edition published about 1510. The author was Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo ...
Alcon is the world's largest and most profitable eye care company, Novartis said in a statement, with 2009 annual sales of $6.5 billion and net income of $2 billion.
Alcon relocated its headquarters to Geneva in 2018, citing an opportunity to “increase Alcon’s global scale and reach to better serve customers.” The company employs a total of 25,000 people.
CooperVision. CooperVision in Ontario. CooperVision, Inc. is a business unit of The Cooper Companies, Inc.. It is primarily a soft contact lens manufacturer. The company was founded in 1980, and it's is headquarters are in Pleasanton, California. Its products are sold in over 100 countries.
Alta California ('Upper California'), also known as Nueva California ('New California') among other names, was a province of New Spain formally established in 1804. Along with the Baja California peninsula , it had previously comprised the province of Las Californias , but was made a separate province in 1804 (named Nueva California ). [1]