Shareholder Value

Since 1962, BD has been a publicly traded company with shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BDX). BD is included in the S&P 500 Index and is listed among the FORTUNE 500. As of September 30, 2007, BD had 8,896 shareholders of record who owned a total of 254.8 million average common and common equivalent shares outstanding, assuming dilution.

Revenues

BD’s global revenues in fiscal year 2007 (ending September 30, 2007) were $6.36 billion, an 11 percent increase (reflecting an overall estimated 3 percent favorable impact from foreign currency translation that affected all segments) over fiscal year 2006.

Salaries and Benefits

In 2007, BD employed approximately 28,000 associates around the world. In the United States and Puerto Rico, total salaries, wages and related items for fiscal year 2007 were approximately $435 million.

Financial Implications of Climate Change

BD recognizes that our operations could be affected by natural disasters and similar scenarios identified by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. These risks identified as part of our Enterprise Risk Management program. Because BD has operations in many different regions of the world, we are at increased risk that natural disasters (i.e., hurricane, tornado, earthquake, etc.) or climate change scenarios will have an effect on our operations at some point.  However, we have experienced no adverse effect to date. Each BD facility that is in a high-risk area has a crisis/emergency plan specific to its location. We realize that climate change events could increase the need for healthcare and medical devices and that it will be important for BD to continue to manufacture and distribute our products without interruption.

Currently, BD operations do not fall under the European Emissions trading scheme for carbon dioxide and have experienced little regulatory impact as a result of current greenhouse gas regulations. However, our operations will likely be affected by such regulations in the future. While the financial implications of future regulation have not been quantified, we do quantify the financial implications of continuously rising energy costs. Measures are being taken internally to reduce energy consumption and standardize energy efficiency in BD’s manufacturing operations.

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