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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