Covidien

Irish tax-registered company
Organization business Q908172
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Covidien

Summary

Covidien is a business[1]. Covidien ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (947 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Covidien is in the country of Ireland[3].
  • Covidien is in the country of CH[4].
  • Covidien is in the country of IE[5].
  • Covidien is in the country of US[6].
  • Covidien's instance of is recorded as business[7].
  • Covidien's instance of is recorded as enterprise[8].
  • Covidien's instance of is recorded as subsidiary company[9].
  • Covidien's headquarters location is recorded as Dublin[10].
  • Covidien's Commons category is recorded as Covidien[11].
  • Covidien's industry is recorded as pharmaceutical industry[12].
  • 2007 marks the founding of Covidien[13].
  • 1999-03-31 marks the founding of Covidien[14].
  • Covidien was dissolved in 2015[15].
  • Covidien's parent organization or unit is recorded as Medtronic plc[16].
  • Covidien's official website is recorded as http://www.covidien.com[17].
  • Covidien's product or material produced is recorded as medical device[18].
  • Covidien's replaced by is recorded as Medtronic (Ireland)[19].
  • Covidien's legal form is recorded as Limited Company[20].
  • Covidien's legal form is recorded as MVII[21].
  • Covidien's legal form is recorded as MNQ7[22].
  • Covidien's legal form is recorded as T91T[23].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

GLEIF Golden Copy — Level 1 entity data

  • Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 549300PFVUMQ1MLBKJ64[24]

  • Registered legal name: Covidien AG[25]

  • Legal jurisdiction: CH[26]

  • GLEIF entity category: GENERAL[27]

  • Legal form (ISO 20275 ELF): MVII[28]

  • Entity status: ACTIVE[29]

  • LEI registration status: ISSUED[30]

  • Entity created: 1999-03-31[31]

  • LEI first registered: 2012-12-07[32]

  • LEI last updated: 2025-10-06[33]

  • LEI next renewal: 2026-10-16[34]

  • Managing LOU: 5493001KJTIIGC8Y1R12[35]

  • Registration authority: RA000549[36]

  • Authority entity ID: CHE-105.098.567[37]

  • Other names: Tyco Healthcare Group AG[38]

  • Conformity flag: NON_CONFORMING[39]

Body

Founding

Recorded inception include 2007[13] and 1999-03-31[14].

Operations

Covidien's headquarters location is recorded as Dublin[10]. Covidien's parent organization or unit is recorded as Medtronic plc[16].

Industry

Covidien's industry is recorded as pharmaceutical industry[12].

Ownership

Covidien's product or material produced is recorded as medical device[18].

Dissolution

Covidien was dissolved in 2015[15].

Why It Matters

Covidien ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (947 views/month).[2] Covidien has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[40] Covidien is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Open Funder Registry. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [24] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  4. [27] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  5. [28] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  6. [29] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  7. [30] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  8. [31] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  9. [32] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  10. [33] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  11. [34] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  12. [35] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  13. [36] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  14. [37] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  15. [38] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.
  16. [39] ↑ . Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF). Retrieved . gleif.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [40] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [41] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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