LeMaitre Vascular, Inc.
LeMaitre is a leading global innovator, manufacturer and marketer of devices for the treatment of peripheral vascular disease. We’re proud to provide vascular surgeons with the solutions they need to diagnose and heal their patients. While LeMaitre is a global company reaching more than 80 countries, we consciously maintain a small-company environment. We don’t believe in layers and bureaucracy. Instead, we encourage teamwork, collaboration across disciplines and decentralized decision-making. The result allows us to better focus our energies on responding to the needs of vascular surgeons and their patients.
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- Business Type:
- Manufacturer
- Industry Type:
- Medical Equipment
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
- Year Founded:
- 1983
- Employees:
- Over 1000
About Us
Commitment to Innovation
LeMaitre Vascular carries on our founder’s dedication to developing better devices for vascular surgeons — Dr. LeMaitre’s valvulotome is now in its seventh generation.
We’ve expanded our product lines through a strategy of acquisition and innovation. Our small-company environment affords us the agility needed to take advantage of acquisition opportunities as they arise. Our highly skilled research and development team takes it from there, continuously improving the products we acquire through next-generation development and product line extensions.
Vision for the Future
Our focus remains on meeting the needs and exceeding the expectations of vascular surgeons with disposable and implantable vascular devices for use in both open vascular surgery and minimally invasive procedures. We will continue to expand and further diversify our product portfolio to meet the challenges of the future.
Our History
The LeMaitre story began when George D. LeMaitre, MD, a vascular surgeon, wasn’t satisfied with the options that were available to him. He sought to develop a better way to treat lower extremity arterial disease in his patients. Working with an engineer, he designed a valvulotome that could be used to cut valves in peripheral veins without the burdensome requirement of direct vision.
Pleased with the performance of his valvulotome, Dr. LeMaitre felt other surgeons might also benefit from it. In 1983, he founded what would become LeMaitre Vascular.
Over time, Dr. LeMaitre’s son, George W. LeMaitre, joined the company, helping to grow it from a family-owned business to a publicly held global provider of innovative devices for the treatment of peripheral vascular disease. Today, we sell directly to hospitals in 22 countries and through distributors in more than 60 countries.
Our Mission
Our small-company atmosphere and collaborative spirit contribute to a culture of mutual respect and support. The people who work at LeMaitre are proud of the work they do.
LeMaitre Vascular provides surgeons and interventionalists around the world with innovative devices and information so that they can diagnose and heal the sick. We believe society and the marketplace will judge and reward LeMaitre Vascular based on our ability to achieve this purpose.
Our Three ConstituentsOur primary pledge is to our customer, the surgeon/interventionalist. Our customers seek to buy the most effective therapeutic devices available, and we must continue to provide them with innovative products and techniques to meet their needs. Founded by a vascular surgeon, we have always emphasized a close working relationship with practitioners to help us bring such products and techniques to market. Our success depends upon continuing our partnership with all surgeons and interventionalists.
Our secondary obligation is to ourselves, LeMaitre Vascular’s employees. We strive to create a demanding yet fun work environment by emphasizing teamwork and decentralizing decision-making. This should be the best job each of us has ever had.
Our final obligation is to our stockholders, who need to be rewarded for their investment.
Our five business principles are:- We please customers.
- We’re honest.
- We compete and cooperate.
- We experiment.
- We’re fiscally prudent.
Perhaps we should have added a sixth: We have fun.