Item 2. PROPERTIES

The Company owns the facilities that its headquarters and R&D Systems subsidiary occupy in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Minneapolis facilities are utilized by both the Company’s Clinical Controls and Biotechnology segments.

The Minneapolis complex includes approximately 800,000 square feet of space in several adjoining buildings. Bio-Techne uses approximately 625,000 square feet of the complex for administrative, research, manufacturing, shipping and warehousing activities. The Company is currently leasing or plans to lease the remaining space in the complex as retail and office space.

The Company owns the 17,000 square foot facility that its R&D Europe subsidiary occupies in Abingdon, England. This facility is utilized by the Company’s Biotechnology and Protein Platforms segments.

The Company leases the following material facilities, all of which are utilized by the Company’s Biotechnology segment with the exception of the location used by the Company’s Bionostics and Cliniqa subsidiaries (Clinical Controls segment), and the ProteinSimple and CyVek sites which support the Protein Platforms segment. Certain locations are not named because they were not significant individually or in the aggregate as of the date of this report.

The Company is currently pursuing new lease space for its Cliniqa operations. The Company believes the owned and leased properties, other than the Cliniqa facility, are adequate to meet its occupancy needs in the foreseeable future.