QIAGEN N.V. (NYSE:QGEN)'s Chief Executive Officer, Managing Director and Member of Management Board, Peer Michael Schatz recently stated, "We're creating value, we're enhancing growth and focus also through targeted acquisitions, very selective, very targeted acquisitions over the past few years. We've been delivering efficiency and effectiveness, streamlining processes and sites across the organization, growing also the company in terms of the customer experience quite considerably, as measured by our own surveys and third-party feedback. So the pathway going forward is a extrapolation of what we've started to see in 2016, increasingly in 2017 and we're reaffirming that here also for '18, '19 and '20."