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IN 2015, ABBOTT
DELIVERED TOPTIER
SALES AND EARNINGS
GROWTH DESPITE A
CHALLENGING CURRENCY
ENVIRONMENT.
than we’ve been in decades, resulting
in the improved margins that have
allowed us to deliver our strong results
despite today’s economic headwinds.
FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
Our 2015 sales growth was 9 percent
globally, excluding the impact of
exchange. Due to our sharpened
competitiveness, these sales produced
adjusted earnings-per-share growth
of 9 percent. We again raised our
dividend, by more than 8 percent.
This marks the 92nd consecutive
year in which we’ve paid a dividend,
and the 44th consecutive year that
dividends have risen, maintaining our
longstanding position on the S&P 500
Dividend Aristocrats Index.
LIFE. TO THE FULLEST.
What we saw in 2015, then, was a
textbook Abbott performance. In
navigating a challenging global
environment, Abbott displayed the
experience and know-how of a long-
standing, long-term company, and
the forward-looking ambition of a
company that keeps itself young
through a relentless focus on providing
its customers what they need today
and want for tomorrow.
That customer focus drives an
important new dimension for
Abbott: building our corporate
brand identity. In 2015 we conducted
our first-ever corporate consumer
awareness campaign. Through this
highly successful eort, almost a
billion people around the world have
learned more about our company and
how it helps people live the best and
healthiest lives they can.
That’s what Abbott is here for.
We demonstrated this again in 2015
by introducing new healthcare
products and bringing them to more
people around the world than ever
before. By running our company in
a thoughtful and responsible way
we were named to the Dow-Jones
Sustainability Indexes, the world’s top
recognition for leadership in
responsible economic, environmental,
and social performance, for the 11th
consecutive year.
Taken as a whole, our performance,
across the breadth of the company’s
activities, led investors and peer
companies to name us our industry’s
Most Admired Company in Fortune
magazine’s annual ranking for the
third year in a row. We intend to not
just maintain, but to improve this
high level of performance. Because, at
Abbott, our work is too important to do
it any other way.
LETTER TO OUR SHAREHOLDERS
$20.4BN
Total Sales
+9.1%
Sales growth
excluding impact
of exchange
MILES D. WHITE
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD AND
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
MARCH 2, 2016
ABBOTT 2015 ANNUAL REPORT
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