Cook Group Incorporated is an American
privately held company
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based in
Bloomington, Indiana
Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County in the central region of the U.S. state of Indiana. It is the seventh-largest city in Indiana and the fourth-largest outside the Indianapolis metropolitan area. According to the Mo ...
, and primarily involved in manufacturing of
medical device
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s. It was ranked #324 in
Forbes
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' 2008 America's Largest Private Companies.
It has four main divisions: Cook Medical, Cook Services, Cook Properties, and Cook Brothers Insulation. All four divisions are made up of several subsidiary companies.
The flagship company, Cook Incorporated, part of the medical division, was founded in 1963 in a spare bedroom in Bloomington.
The first products of Cook Incorporated included catheters, needles, and wire guides. Today, the company manufactures more than 16,000 products across 10 hospital service lines, and serves 135 countries. Other companies include also the manufacturers K-Tube and Cook Polymer Technology. Cook owns CFC Properties, a
property development
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company
that owns residential and commercial properties in Bloomington as well as Fountain Square Mall and Grant Street Inn. Cook also restored and owns the French Lick Resort, which includes the historic
West Baden Springs Hotel
The West Baden Springs Hotel, formerly known as the West Baden Inn, is part of the French Lick Resort and is a national historic landmark hotel in West Baden Springs, Indiana, West Baden Springs, Orange County, Indiana, Orange County, Indiana. It ...
and the
French Lick Springs Hotel.
Subsidiaries
Medical manufacturing

* Cook Incorporated
* Cook Research Incorporated
* Cook Urological Incorporated
* Cook MyoSite
* Cook Brothers Insulation
* Cook Regentec
* MED Institute, Inc.
* Cook Biotech Incorporated
* Cook Endoscopy
* Cook Vascular Incorporated
* William Cook Europe ApS
* William A. Cook Australia Pty. Ltd.
* Cook Ireland Ltd.
Allied manufacturing
* Sabin Corporation now Cook Polymer Technology
* K-Tube Corporation
Affiliates
* CFC, Inc.
** Fountain Square Mall
** Grant Street Inn
* Cook Aviation Inc.
* Cook Travel
* Cook Family Health Center Inc.
Subsidiary acquisition: Cook Pharmica LLC
In September 2017, Catalent purchased Cook Pharmica for $950 million.
References
External links
Cook Group— official home page
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Cook Medical— official home page; most Cook content
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Cook Group Businesses— with links to subsidiaries
Medical technology companies of the United States
American companies established in 1963
Manufacturing companies established in 1963
Health care companies established in 1963
Manufacturing companies based in Indiana
Health care companies based in Indiana
Privately held companies based in Indiana
Companies based in Bloomington, Indiana
American brands
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