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Executive-Level Overview
Henry Schein, Inc. is a solutions company for health care professionals powered
by a network of people and
We
believe we are the world’s
largest provider of health care products and services primarily to office-
based dental and medical practitioners, as well as alternate sites of care.
We
serve more than one million customers
worldwide including dental practitioners, laboratories, physician practices, and
ambulatory surgery centers, as well
as government, institutional health care clinics and other alternate care
clinics.
We
believe that we have a strong
brand identity due to our more than
9091 years of experience distributing health
care products.
We are headquartered in Melville, New York,
employ more than
22,00023,000 people (of which approximately
10,60011,500 are
based outside of the United States) and have operations or affiliates in
3233 countries
and territories.
Our broad
global footprint has evolved over time through our organic success as well as
through
through contribution from strategic
We
have established strategically located distribution centers around
the world to enable us to better serve our
customers and increase our operating efficiency.
This infrastructure, together with broad product and service
offerings at competitive prices, and a strong commitment to customer service,
enables
enables us to be a single source of
supply for our customers’ needs.
While our primary go-to-market strategy is in our capacity as a distributor, we also market and sell our own
corporate brand portfolio of cost-effective, high-quality consumable merchandise products,manufacture certain
dental dental specialty products
and solutions in the areas of implants, orthodontics
and endodontics,
and
endodontics.repackage/relabel prescription We
have achieved scale in
these global businesses primarily
through acquisitions, as
manufacturers
of these products typically do not utilize a
distribution channel
to serve customers.
We
conduct our business through two reportable segments: (i) health
care distribution and (ii) technology and
value-added services.
These segments offer different products and services to the same customer base.
Our global
dental businesses serve office-based dental practitioners, dental laboratories, schools,
andgovernment
and other
global medical businesses serve
office-based medical practitioners,physician offices, urgent care centers, ambulatory
care sites,
surgeryemergencymedical technicians, dialysis centers,
home health, federal and state governmentsand large enterprises, such as group practices and integrated delivery networks, among other
alternate-careprovidersacross a wide range of specialties.settings and other institutions.
The health care distribution reportable segment,
aggregatescombining our global
dental and
dental and medical operating
segments.Thissegments,segment distributes consumable products, small equipment, laboratory products,
large equipment, equipment
repair
services,services, branded and generic pharmaceuticals, vaccines, surgical products, dental
specialty
specialty products (including
implant,implant, orthodontic and endodontic products), diagnostic tests, infection-control
products,
PPE
products and vitamins.
Our global technology and value-added services business provides software,
technology
technology and other value-added
services to health care practitioners.
Our technology business offerings include practice management software
systems for dental and medical practitioners.
Our value-added practice solutions include practice consultancy,
education, revenue cycle management and financial services on a non-recourse
basis, e-services, practice
technology, network and hardware services, as well as consulting, and continuing education services for
practitioners.
A key element to grow closer to our customers is our One Schein
initiative, which
initiative, which is a unified go-to-market
approach that enables practitioners to work synergistically with our supply chain,
equipment sales and service and
other value-added services, allowing our customers to leverage
the
the combined value that we offer through a single
program.
Specifically, One Schein provides customers with streamlined access to our comprehensive offering of
national brand products, our
private labelcorporate brand products and proprietary specialty
products and solutions (including
implant, orthodontic and endodontic products).
In addition, customers have access to a wide range of services,
including software and other value-added services.