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Parker Montgomery, a lawyer, bought Martin H. Smith Co. in 1958. The company was renamed to Cooper, Tinsley Laboratories, Inc. in 1961. Its name was changed to Cooper Laboratories Inc. in 1967, and entered the contact lens business when it acquired British lens maker GlobalVision in 1972.
In 1980, Cooper Laboratories reorganized into three business groups: CooperVision, CooperCare and CooperBiomedical, with Cooper Medical Devices Corp. added as a fourth group one year later.
The company was renamed The Cooper Companies in 1987. Three years later, it was further restructured into three business units: CooperVision, CooperSurgical and CooperVision Pharmaceuticals (dissolved in 2003).
Currently, the firm operates as two business units: CooperVision and CooperSurgical. CooperVision serves contact lens wearers and eye care practitioners. Products include a range of daily, two-week and monthly disposable contact lenses, and other spherical, toric and multifocal lenses for astigmatism, nearsightedness and farsightedness, and presbyopia.
CooperSurgical is the medical device and fertility and genomics unit of the companies. It became a business unit in 1990 and its focus includes women's health and fertility. It is headquartered in Trumbull, Connecticut.