BLCO

Bausch & Lomb Corp

A global eye health company that makes contact lenses, eye drops like Lumify and PreserVision, and surgical tools for cataract surgery, used by patients and eye care professionals in roughly a hundred countries. Founded in 1853 in Rochester, New York, when German immigrant optician John Jacob Bausch borrowed sixty dollars from his friend Henry Lomb and promised him a partnership. Legend says Bausch found a scrap of vulcanite (hard rubber) on the street and turned it into the first durable eyeglass frames.