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Bovie Medical

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Bovie Medical
Company typePublic
AMEXBVX
IndustryMedical devices
Founded1978
HeadquartersClearwater, Florida, United States
Key people
Rob Gershon (CEO)
Jack McCarthy (CCO)
J. Robert Saron (president)
ProductsJ-Plasma, monopolar, bipolar, Plazxact ablator, electrosurgery, veterinary, medical lighting, colposcopes
RevenueIncrease $28.2 million (2019)
Number of employees
200
Websitewww.boviemedical.com

Bovie Medical Corporation[1] was an American medical device manufacturer of medical devices, electrosurgical products and energy technologies. It was based in Clearwater, Florida with a manufacturing facility in Bulgaria.[2]

In August 2019, the company sold off the electrocauterization portion of the business to Symmetry Surgical Inc.[3] On January 1, 2019, the company rebranded as Apyx Medical and was listed under the new ticker symbol APYX on the NASDAQ.[4]

Company history

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The company was founded in Purchase, New York in 1978. Bovie Medical takes its name from Dr. William T. Bovie, an American scientist and inventor who is credited with inventing the electrosurgical generator in 1926.[5]

Bovie went public in 1983 and is listed on the NYSE under the symbol BVX.

References

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  1. ^ "StackPath".
  2. ^ "Company". Bovie Medical. Retrieved June 25, 2018.
  3. ^ "Bovie Medical closes $97m sale of core electro-cautery biz to Symmetry Surgical". Massdevice.com. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  4. ^ "Bovie to rebrand as Apyx Medical, move to NASDAQ". Massdevice.com. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
  5. ^ Goldfarb, MD, Walter B. (18 May 2009). "Harvey cushing and the new england surgical society". Archives of Surgery. 144 (5): 476–479. doi:10.1001/archsurg.2009.38. PMID 19451492. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
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