IDEXX Releases 2025 Corporate Responsibility Report, Highlighting Progress Against Its Goals

WESTBROOK, Maine--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 28, 2026--

IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDXX), a global leader in pet healthcare innovation, today released its 2025 Corporate Responsibility Report, highlighting progress against the company’s goals and commitments.

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“At IDEXX, corporate responsibility is central to how we create long-term value,” said Mike Erickson, IDEXX President and Chief Executive Officer. “The progress reflected in this report is the result of sustained investments in innovation, our people, and capabilities that support our customers every day. These priorities are deeply connected to our business strategy and purpose, strengthening our company today while positioning us for future innovation and growth.”

The Care We Advance

Veterinary medicine is undergoing rapid transformation as advances in science and technology enable earlier detection, faster diagnosis, and deeper insights into disease. IDEXX is helping lead that evolution through innovations that bring screening and diagnosis closer together and expand access to advanced diagnostics. Over the past year, IDEXX:

The People We Support

Innovation begins with people. IDEXX continues to invest in the capabilities, development, and engagement of its workforce, recognizing that strong teams are essential to advancing science, serving customers, and supporting long-term growth. Notable highlights include:

The Planet We Share

As a global company, IDEXX remains focused on managing resources responsibly and reducing its environmental footprint. The company remains on track to meet its 2030 GHG emissions reduction goal and anticipates significant emissions reductions in the next few years. Progress in 2025 reflected continued investment in renewable electricity, operational efficiency, and initiatives designed to reduce waste and extend product life. Across its operations, IDEXX:

This Corporate Responsibility Report covers topics the company believes are relevant to our business and stakeholders. IDEXX uses well-established reporting standards generally aligned with frameworks, such as those released by the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) and the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). Read the report here.

About IDEXX

IDEXX is a global leader in pet healthcare innovation. Our diagnostic and software products and services create clarity in the complex evolving world of veterinary medicine. We support longer, fuller lives for pets by delivering insights and solutions that help the veterinary community around the world make confident decisions—to advance medical care, improve efficiency, and build thriving practices. Our innovations also help measure the safety of milk and water across the world and maintain the health and well-being of people and livestock. IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. is a member of the S&P 500™ Index. Headquartered in Maine, IDEXX employs approximately 11,000 people and offers solutions and products to customers in more than 175 countries and territories. For more information about IDEXX, visit: www.idexx.com.

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2025 IDEXX Corporate Responsibility Report

SHELBYVILLE, Ky. (AP) — KFC founder Colonel Sanders ' pressure cooker, black bow tie and dozens of other personal items are up for public auction, along with his former home and a dinner house Sanders opened after selling his iconic restaurant chain.

Harland Sanders, still known as the face of the worldwide chain originally known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, established the Shelbyville property as the first headquarters of his restaurant business in the late 1950s. He sold the property, which included his home and the Claudia Sanders Dinner House, in 1974 to Tommy and Cherry Settle, who have run the restaurant since then.

“Colonel Sanders was the original celebrity chef,” said Bill Menish, whose firm, The Menish Group, is conducting the auction. “The feedback has been worldwide, so we needed to have an auction that would cater to that worldwide audience.”

Online pre-bidding concludes with a live, in-person auction for the Sanders memorabilia on Tuesday evening. Sealed bids for the restaurant and Sanders’ former 5,000-square-foot (465 square-meter) home, which he named Blackwood Hall, will be taken until Friday.

Sanders’ personal watches, an original cash register, his cutlery set, a bust sculpted by his daughter and a commercial gas range from the colonel's former residence are among the items up for bidding.

Sanders sold KFC in 1964 to a group of investors, but continued as a brand ambassador for the company.

Menish called Sanders a “marketing genius” for creating the character of the colonel.

“He didn’t dress like that before he was starting to build Kentucky Fried Chicken,” Menish said. “He adopted the colonel: the clothes, the bow tie, the glasses, the goatee.”

One of the most intriguing pieces could be a personal 1964 planner with a handwritten herbs and spices recipe that was later the subject of an early 2000s lawsuit filed by the KFC Corp. to keep the contents private. KFC later dropped the legal action, saying after reviewing the planner the ingredients didn’t match Sanders' secret blend of 11 herbs and spices, and it was likely a recipe for stuffing.

“What a keepsake,” Menish said.

One of Sanders' signature black bow ties is also up for auction. The highest online bid for the tie was more than $2,000 on Monday.

Auctioneer Jonathan Klunk said there's a little-known secret behind the bow tie.

“Not a lot of people know, he did wear clip-ons,” Klunk said.

Auctioneer Jonathan Klunk shows a black bow tie worn by KFC founder Harland Sanders, Wednesday, July 22, 2026, in Shelbyville, Ky. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan)

Claudia Sanders Dinner House, which was owned by KFC founder Harland Sanders, is seen Wednesday, July 22, 2026, in Shelbyville, Ky. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan)

Auctioneer Jonathan Klunk gestures to a display of personal items owned by KFC founder Harland Sanders, Wednesday, July 22, 2026, in Shelbyville, Ky. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan)