SCHEDULE 13G
Amendment No. 5
Applera Corporation
Applied Biosystems Group Common Stock
Cusip #038020103
Cusip #038020103
Item 1: Reporting Person - FMR Corp.
Item 4: Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Item 5: 164,120
Item 6: 0
Item 7: 2,276,920
Item 8: 0
Item 9: 2,276,920
Item 11: 1.072%
Item 12: HC
Cusip #038020103
Item 1: Reporting Person - Edward C. Johnson 3d
Item 4: United States of America
Item 5: 0
Item 6: 0
Item 7: 2,276,920
Item 8: 0
Item 9: 2,276,920
Item 11: 1.072%
Item 12: IN
Cusip #038020103
Item 1: Reporting Person - Abigail P. Johnson
Item 4: United States of America
Item 5: 0
Item 6: 0
Item 7: 2,276,920
Item 8: 0
Item 9: 2,276,920
Item 11: 1.072%
Item 12: IN
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
Item 1(a). Name of Issuer:
Applera Corporation
Item 1(b). Name of Issuer's Principal Executive Offices:
301 Merritt 7, P.O. Box 5435
Norwalk, CT 06856-5435
Item 2(a). Name of Person Filing:
FMR Corp.
Item 2(b). Address or Principal Business Office or, if None,
Residence:
82 Devonshire Street, Boston,
Massachusetts 02109
Item 2(c). Citizenship:
Not applicable
Item 2(d). Title of Class of Securities:
Applied Biosystems Group Common
Stock
Item 2(e). CUSIP Number:
038020103
Item 3. This statement is filed pursuant to Rule 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
and the person filing, FMR Corp., is a parent holding company
in accordance with Section 240.13d-1(b)(ii)(G). (Note: See
Item 7).
Item 4. Ownership
(a) Amount Beneficially Owned: 2,276,920
(b) Percent of Class: 1.072%
(c) Number of shares as to which such
person has:
(i) sole power to vote or to direct
the vote: 164,120
(ii) shared power to vote or to
direct the vote: 0
(iii) sole power to dispose or to
direct the disposition of: 2,276,920
(iv) shared power to dispose or to
direct the disposition of: 0
Item 5. Ownership of Five Percent or Less of a Class.
If this statement is being filed to report the fact that as of the
date hereof, the reporting person has ceased to be the
beneficial owner of more than five percent of the class of
securities, check the following (X).
Item 6. Ownership of More than Five Percent on Behalf of Another
Person.
Not applicable
Item 7. Identification and Classification of the Subsidiary Which
Acquired the Security Being Reported on By the Parent
Holding Company.
See attached Exhibit(s) A, B.
Item 8. Identification and Classification of Members of
the Group.
Not Applicable. See attached Exhibit A.
Item 9. Notice of Dissolution of Group.
Not applicable.
Item 10. Certification.
Inasmuch as the reporting persons are no longer the beneficial
owners of more than five percent of the number of shares
outstanding, the reporting persons have no further reporting
obligation under Section 13(d) of the Securities and Exchange
Commission thereunder, and the reporting persons have no
obligation to amend this Statement if any material change
occurs in the facts set forth herein.
Signature
After reasonable inquiry and to the best of my knowledge and
belief, I certify that the information set forth in this Schedule
13G in connection with FMR Corp.'s beneficial ownership of
the Applied Biosystems Group Common Stock of Applera
Corporation at August 31, 2002 is true, complete and correct.
September 10, 2002
Date
/s/Eric D. Roiter
Signature
Eric D. Roiter
Duly authorized under Power of Attorney
dated December 30, 1997 by and on behalf
of FMR Corp. and its direct and indirect
subsidiaries
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
Pursuant to the instructions in Item 7 of Schedule
13G, Fidelity Management & Research Company
("Fidelity"), 82 Devonshire Street, Boston, Massachusetts
02109, a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR Corp. and an
investment adviser registered under Section 203 of the
Investment Advisers Act of 1940, is the beneficial owner of
2,112,800 shares or 0.995% of the Applied Biosystems
Group Common Stock outstanding of Applera Corporation
("the Company") as a result of acting as investment adviser
to various investment companies registered under Section 8
of the Investment Company Act of 1940.
Edward C. Johnson 3d, FMR Corp., through its
control of Fidelity, and the funds each has sole power to
dispose of the 2,112,800 shares owned by the Funds.
Neither FMR Corp. nor Edward C. Johnson 3d,
Chairman of FMR Corp., has the sole power to vote or direct
the voting of the shares owned directly by the Fidelity Funds,
which power resides with the Funds' Boards of Trustees.
Fidelity carries out the voting of the shares under written
guidelines established by the Funds' Boards of Trustees.
Fidelity Management Trust Company, 82 Devonshire
Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02109, a wholly-owned
subsidiary of FMR Corp. and a bank as defined in Section
3(a)(6) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, is the
beneficial owner of 163,454 shares or 0.077% of the Applied
Biosystems Group Common Stock outstanding of the
Company as a result of its serving as investment manager of
the institutional account(s).
Edward C. Johnson 3d and FMR Corp., through its
control of Fidelity Management Trust Company, each has
sole dispositive power over 163,454 shares and sole power to
vote or to direct the voting of 163,454 shares of Applied
Biosystems Group Common Stock owned by the institutional
account(s) as reported above.
Strategic Advisers, Inc., 82 Devonshire Street,
Boston, MA 02109, a wholly-owned subsidiary of FMR
Corp. and an investment adviser registered under Section 203
of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, provides investment
advisory services to individuals. As such, FMR Corp.'s
beneficial ownership includes 300 shares, or 0.000%, of the
Applied Biosystems Group Common Stock stock outstanding
of Applera Corporation, beneficially owned through Strategic
Advisers, Inc.
Geode Capital Management, LLC, 53 State Street,
Boston, Massachusetts 02109, a Delaware limited liability
company ("Geode LLC"), is the beneficial owner of 366
shares or 0.000% of the outstanding common stock of the
Company. Geode LLC is wholly-owned by Fidelity
Investors III Limited Partnership ("FILP III"), a Delaware
limited partnership. Geode LLC is an investment adviser
registered under Section 203 of the Investment Advisers Act
of 1940. Fidelity Investors Management, LLC ("FIML"), a
Delaware limited liability company, is the general partner
and investment manager of FILP III, and is an investment
manager registered under Section 203 of the Investment
Advisers Act of 1940. The managers of Geode LLC, the
members of FIML and the limited partners of FILP III are
certain shareholders and employees of FMR Corp.
Members of the Edward C. Johnson 3d family are the
predominant owners of Class B shares of common stock of
FMR Corp., representing approximately 49% of the voting
power of FMR Corp. Mr. Johnson 3d owns 12.0% and
Abigail Johnson owns 24.5% of the aggregate outstanding
voting stock of FMR Corp. Mr. Johnson 3d is Chairman of
FMR Corp. and Abigail P. Johnson is a Director of FMR
Corp. The Johnson family group and all other Class B
shareholders have entered into a shareholders' voting
agreement under which all Class B shares will be voted in
accordance with the majority vote of Class B shares.
Accordingly, through their ownership of voting common
stock and the execution of the shareholders' voting
agreement, members of the Johnson family may be deemed,
under the Investment Company Act of 1940, to form a
controlling group with respect to FMR Corp.
SCHEDULE 13G - TO BE INCLUDED IN
STATEMENTS
FILED PURSUANT TO RULE 13d-1(b) or 13d-2(b)
RULE 13d-1(f)(1) AGREEMENT
The undersigned persons, on September 10, 2002,
agree and consent to the joint filing on their behalf of this
Schedule 13G in connection with their beneficial ownership of
the Applied Biosystems Group Common Stock of Applera
Corporation at August 31, 2002.
FMR Corp.
By /s/Eric D. Roiter
Eric D. Roiter
Duly authorized under Power of Attorney
dated December 30, 1997, by and on behalf
of FMR Corp. and its direct and indirect
subsidiaries
Edward C. Johnson 3d
By /s/Eric D. Roiter
Eric D. Roiter
Duly authorized under Power of Attorney
dated December 30, 1997, by and on behalf
of Edward C. Johnson 3d
Abigail P. Johnson
By /s/Eric D. Roiter
Eric D. Roiter
Duly authorized under Power of Attorney
dated December 30, 1997, by and on behalf
of Abigail P. Johnson
Fidelity Management & Research Company
By /s/Eric D. Roiter
Eric D. Roiter
Senior V.P. and General Counsel