Bausch & Lomb is the eye health company, dedicated to perfecting vision and enhancing life for consumers around the world. Its core businesses include soft and rigid gas permeable contact lenses and lens care products, and ophthalmic surgical and pharmaceutical products. The Bausch & Lomb name is one of the best known and most respected healthcare brands in the world. Founded in 1853, the Company is headquartered in Rochester, New York. Bausch & Lomb's 2004 revenues were $2.2 billion; it employs approximately 12,400 people worldwide and its products are available in more than 100 countries.

Bausch & Lomb has three product lines: Vision Care, Surgical, and Pharmaceuticals.

The Waterford manufacturing plant opened in 1980 and has since grown to a 264,000 sq ft facility with over 1700 employees, it is a multi-function complex which includes contact lens manufacturing, pharmaceutical, RD&E and surgical.

The company prides itself as being the premier employer in the South East and also the principal contact lens plant for Bausch & Lomb world wide, the operation has extensive high technology manufacturing and administration buildings based in the historic and beautiful Waterford city on Ireland’s south coast.

More information about the Company can be found on the Bausch & Lomb Web site above.