Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. agreed to sell one of its lab units, Cole-Parmer, to private-equity firm GTCR for $480 million in cash.

In the 1960s, John C. Parmer was a successful businessman living on the North Shore, a world away from the strife tearing apart America’s inner cities. But the suffering and rage he saw in th… ...

About Cole-Parmer Cole-Parmer has been a leading global source of laboratory and industrial fluid handling products, instrumentation, equipment, and supplies since 1955.

GTCR, a leading private equity firm, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Cole-Parmer Instrument Company (“C ...

As a quick reference for use in the lab, the Cole-Parmer chemical compatibility database app can be quite handy. The app is very simple and allows users to check the compatibility of specific ...