Danaher Corporation today announced the sale by two selling stockholders, Steven M. Rales, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company, and Mitchell P. Rales, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Company, of an aggregate of 5,000,000 shares of its common stock, pursuant to a registration statement declared effective by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The price to the public of the shares of common stock is $54 per share.

Merrill Lynch & Co., Lehman Brothers, Bear, Stearns, J.P. Morgan and Salomon Smith Barney are acting as the underwriters of the offering. The selling stockholders have granted to the underwriters an option to purchase up to 750,000 additional shares of the Company's common stock to cover over- allotments.

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SOURCE: Danaher Corporation