Colorado Important to a Supersized Medtronic, Inc.

Medtronic Inc.'s $49.9 billion purchase of Covidien made Colorado the third-largest base of employees for the combined company and a place not likely to see dramatic changes as a result of the deal.

That was the take of Chris Cleary, Medtronic’s vice president of corporate development, who was key to putting together the deal that closed Monday and made Medtronic the largest medical device company in the world.

Medtronic Inc. (NYSE: MDT) now has more than 2,100 employees in the Denver area, primarily in Boulder County where Covidien (originally known as Valley Lab) employs about 1,700 people developing and making surgical devices.

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