CMS

Name

CMS

Legal name

Culture Media & Supplies, Inc.

Website

https://culturemediasupplies.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Microbiology Culture Media

NAICS

In-Vitro Diagnostic Substance Manufacturing (325413)

SIC

Laboratory Analytical Instruments (3826)

akta.pro primary industry

Analytical Development & QC Testing (Release/Stability/Potency) (HLAGAGAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

Formulation & Preclinical CMC Support (Nonclinical) (HLAGAFAL)

Keywords

• Microbiology culture media
• Prepared culture media
• Dehydrated culture media
• Laboratory quality control
• Microbiological testing supplies

Headquarters

HQ city

Oswego

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Culture Media Products: One-time product sales of prepared culture media in various formats (plates, bottles, jars, tubes, slants) and dehydrated media. Orders are placed via phone, fax, or email with no online ordering system.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

CMS is a manufacturer and distributor of standard and custom prepared culture media for quality assurance and microbiology testing. It offers prepared media in plates, bottles, jars, tubes and slants, distributes dehydrated media, and sells an educational Student Science Project Kit. Each manufactured batch is lot and expiration controlled, produced under current GMP standards, and tested for growth performance, pH and sterility using the documented NCCLS Quality Control procedure for commercially prepared microbiological culture media.

Product overview

Culture Media & Supplies, Inc. (CMS) is a manufacturer of standard and custom prepared culture media for QA/Microbiology. The company operates as a certified small woman-owned business with manufacturing facilities in Oswego, IL. Their product portfolio consists primarily of prepared culture media products including various plate formats (mono, bi-plate, tri-plate, quad-plate in multiple sizes), bottles, jars, tubes, and slants. They also distribute dehydrated media. The product line encompasses over 40 different media types including Standard Methods (Plate Count) Agar, Tryptic Soy Agar/Broth, Nutrient Agar, YM Agar, XLD Agar, Universal Beer Agar, Sabouraud Dextrose Agar, MacConkey Agar, EMB Agar, Mueller Hinton Agar, Brain Heart Infusion media, Potato Dextrose Agar, and Mannitol Salt Agar. Additionally, they offer a Student Science Project Kit for educational purposes. All products are lot number and expiration date controlled, produced in strict compliance with current GMP standards, and tested for growth performance, pH and sterility using NCCLS Quality Control standards.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Student Science Project Kit Educational kit for groups of students to conduct bacteria tests. Students melt the media in a microwave and pour their own media plates to conduct four experiments: Commonly Used Items Test, Clean Hands/Dirty Hands Test, Clean Mouth/Dirty Mouth Test, and Man vs. Beast Test. The kit includes two 200ml bottles of prepared media, 20 Gamma Radiated Sterile Petri Dishes, 20 Sterile Swabs, and 4 Lab Instruction Sheets.
• Prepared Culture Media - Plates Prepared media offered in 100 x 15 mm mono, bi-, tri- and quad-plates, 60 x 15 mm mono plates, 65 x 15 mm contact plates, and 150 x 15 mm large plates for microbiology testing applications.
• Prepared Culture Media - Bottles, Jars, Tubes and Slants Prepared media available in glass and plastic bottles, jars, tubes and slants for microbiology testing applications.
• Dehydrated Culture Media Dehydrated culture media distributed for microbiology applications.
• Standard Methods (Plate Count) Agar Meets APHA specifications for obtaining microbial content of milk and other sanitary materials; formulated to perform standard plate counts of bacteria in dairy products and equivalent to Plate Count Agar (Tryptone Glucose Yeast Agar).
• YM Agar Used to cultivate yeasts, molds and other aciduric microorganisms; prepared according to Wickerham specifications with Yeast Extract, Malt extract, Peptone, Dextrose and Agar.
• XLD Agar Selective and differential medium for the isolation, cultivation and differentiation of enteric bacteria, particularly Shigella species, from clinical and non-clinical specimens.
• Universal Beer Agar Selective agar formulated by Kozulis and Page for enumerating contaminating bacteria and yeasts in wort and beer in the brewing industry.
• Tryptone Glucose Extract Agar Meets APHA specifications for obtaining microbial content of food, dairy products, water and wastewater; used for Aerobic Plate Count and Heterotrophic Plate Count.
• Tryptone Pancreatic digest of casein used as a nitrogen source in culture media; can support fastidious and nonfastidious microorganisms and is recommended by APHA and USP for detecting bacteria in dairy products, drinking water and wastewater.
• Tryptic Soy Broth General-purpose broth for cultivating fastidious and non-fastidious microorganisms; prepared according to the Soybean-Casein Digest Medium formula in USP XXI and supports aerobes, anaerobes and fungi.
• Tryptic Soy Agar Versatile agar for cultivating a wide variety of microorganisms, including bacteria and fungi; available in standard formulation, 5% Sheep Blood, and L&P variants.
• Nutrient Agar Standard culture medium for general microbiology work; available in dehydrated, prepared bottle, jar, plastic bottle, plate, slant and tube formats.
• Sabouraud Dextrose Agar Medium for cultivating fungi, particularly dermatophytes and other yeasts; available in standard formulation and an L&P variant.
• MacConkey Agar Selective and differential medium for isolating gram-negative enteric bacteria and differentiating lactose fermenters from non-fermenters.
• EMB Agar (Eosin Methylene Blue) Selective and differential medium for isolating and identifying gram-negative bacteria, differentiating lactose and sucrose fermenters from non-fermenters.
• Mueller Hinton Agar Medium used for antimicrobial susceptibility testing, particularly for Neisseria and Staphylococcus species.
• Brain Heart Infusion Agar/Broth Enriched medium for cultivating fastidious bacteria, yeasts and fungi, available in agar and broth formulations.
• Potato Dextrose Agar Used to cultivate and enumerate yeasts and molds in food and dairy products and is available in multiple formats.
• Mannitol Salt Agar Selective medium for isolating Staphylococcus species from clinical specimens, food and cosmetics.
• Yeast Extract Water-soluble portion of autolyzed yeast, controlled to preserve naturally occurring B-complex vitamins and used to stimulate bacterial growth in culture media.
• Custom Prepared Culture Media CMS manufactures custom prepared culture media for quality assurance and microbiology testing, allowing format and formulation specification beyond the standard catalog.

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Ideal customer profiles7 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

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Feature2 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves5 records

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Direct peers

• Hardy Diagnostics: Independent US manufacturer of prepared culture media, dehydrated media, and microbiology supplies serving clinical, food, brewing and industrial labs. Directly comparable to CMS in product mix, customization capability, and US-centric distribution, though at larger scale.
• HiMedia Laboratories: India-based manufacturer of culture media, microbiological reagents and laboratory consumables with a broad prepared and dehydrated media catalog comparable to CMS's product types, including pharma, food and clinical applications.
• Condalab: Spanish manufacturer of dehydrated and prepared culture media, microbiology reagents and identification systems for clinical, food and environmental labs. Overlaps directly with CMS in product category, formats and customer use cases.

Broad incumbents

• Thermo Fisher Scientific: Global life sciences tools leader offering an extensive prepared and dehydrated culture media portfolio (Remel, Oxoid, Gibco brands) across pharma, food, clinical and environmental testing. Represents the dominant scaled alternative CMS competes against.
• Merck KGaA (MilliporeSigma): Global supplier of microbiology products including prepared culture media, dehydrated media and selective supplements under the MilliporeSigma and Sigma-Aldrich brands, serving the same pharma, food and clinical QC end-markets as CMS.
• Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD): Major manufacturer of prepared culture media and microbiology diagnostic systems (BD Difco, BD BBL brands) for clinical and industrial laboratories, with broad catalog reach that dwarfs CMS's offering in the same customer segments.
• Bio-Rad Laboratories: Life science research and clinical diagnostics company offering microbiology quality control products, prepared media and reagents serving food, pharma and clinical laboratories—same end-markets and product category as CMS, but at materially larger scale.
• Neogen Corporation: Food and animal safety company offering culture media and microbiology testing solutions for food processors, brewers and labs; comparable end-customer base to CMS's food and brewing segments with a much broader product portfolio.
• bioMérieux: Global in-vitro diagnostics and microbiology company supplying prepared culture media, identification systems and QC reagents for clinical and industrial microbiology—directly overlapping with CMS's QC testing customer base.

Regional players

• EIKEN Chemical: Japanese manufacturer of microbiological culture media, reagents and diagnostic kits primarily serving Asia-Pacific markets. Comparable in product category (prepared and dehydrated media) but competes in a different geography than CMS.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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