Purchasing - October 21, 2004

Earlier this year, President George W. Bush and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans presented the 2003 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) to executives of Medrad, a manufacturer of medical devices and services related to human body imaging procedures based in Indianola, Pa. Medrad is one of seven recipients of the prestigious honor—and the only manufacturing company.

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