Fitch Rates Thermo Fisher’s EUR1B Commercial Paper Program ‘F2’

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Fitch Ratings has assigned an ‘F2’ rating to Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.’s (Thermo Fisher) new EUR1 billion commercial paper (CP) program. There will be two issuers under the program, Thermo Fisher Scientific (Finance I) B.V. and Thermo Fisher Scientific (IVGN) B.V. Each entity is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Thermo Fisher and neither entity conducts independent operations other than its financing operations. Each of the two issuers will be fully guaranteed by Therm