Cook Group Incorporated is an American privately held company

Privately held company

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 based in Bloomington, Indiana

Bloomington, Indiana

Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County in the southern region of the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 80,405 at the 2010 census....

, and primarily involved in manufacturing of medical device

Medical device

A medical device is a product which is used for medical purposes in patients, in diagnosis, therapy or surgery . Whereas medicinal products achieve their principal action by pharmacological, metabolic or immunological means. Medical devices act by other means like physical, mechanical, thermal,...

s. It was ranked #324 in Forbes

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' 2008 America's Largest Private Companies. It has three main divisions: Cook Medical, Allied Manufacturing, and Affiliates. All three 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. Other companies include also the manufacturers K-Tube and Sabin Corporation. Cook also owns CFC, Inc., a property development company that owns residential and commercial properties in Bloomington as well as Fountain Square Mall and Grant Street Inn.

Medical manufacturing

• Cook Incorporated
• Cook Urological Incorporated
• MED Institute, Inc.
• Cook Biotech Incorporated
• Cook Endoscopy
• Cook Vascular Incorporated
• William Cook Europe ApS
• William A. Cook Australia Pty. Ltd.
• Cook Ireland Ltd.

Affiliates

• CFC, Inc.
  • Fountain Square Mall
  • Grant Street Inn
• Cook Aviation Inc.
• Star Travel Services, Inc.
• Cook Family Health Center Inc.

External links

• Cook Group — official home page
  • Cook Medical — official home page; most Cook content
  • Cook Corporate Profile — with links to subsidiaries