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Bausch & Lomb 1999 Annual Report

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Dear Fellow Shareholders:<br />

We entered the year 2000 as a very different company than the one that<br />

began <strong>1999</strong>. During the past year we successfully completed our strategic<br />

realignment and firmly established our future as a technology-based<br />

health care company for the eye.<br />

We did this by divesting our non-strategic businesses and by augmenting<br />

our core business portfolio through acquisitions – principally in the surgical<br />

segment. We evolved organizationally and streamlined our administrative<br />

functions to move from a diversified holding company to a more<br />

integrated operating company that can leverage our unique skills and<br />

combined capabilities. As a result, millions of dollars in savings are being<br />

reinvested in new products and providing improvements in profitability.<br />

The future is now.<br />

“We’re creating it.”<br />

William M. Carpenter<br />

Chairman and Chief<br />

Executive Officer<br />

“We’re focused on it.”<br />

Carl E. Sassano<br />

President and Chief<br />

Operating Officer

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