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About Henry Schein, Inc.
Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC) is a solutions company for health care professionals
powered by a network of
people and technology. With more than 19,000
Team Schein Members
worldwide, the Company's network of trusted
advisors provides more than 1 million customers globally with more
than 300 valued solutions that improve operational
success and clinical outcomes. Our Business, Clinical, Technology, and Supply Chain solutions help office-based
dental
and
medical
practitioners work more efficiently so they can provide quality care more effectively. These solutions also
support
dental laboratories
,
government and institutional health care clinics
, as well as other alternate care sites.
Henry Schein operates through a centralized and automated
distribution network, with a selection of more than
120,000 branded products and Henry Schein private-brand products in
stock, as well as more than 180,000 additional
products available as special-order items.
A FORTUNE 500 Company and a member of the S&P 500® index, Henry Schein is headquartered in Melville,
N.Y.,
and has operations or affiliates in 31 countries. The Company's sales from continuing
operations reached $10.0
billion in 2019, and have grown at a compound annual rate of approximately
13 percent since Henry Schein became a public
company in 1995.
For more information, visit Henry Schein at
www.henryschein.com
,
Facebook.com/HenrySchein
,
and
@HenrySchein on Twitter
.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements and Use
of Non-GAAP Financial Information
In accordance with the "Safe Harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995, we provide
the following cautionary remarks regarding important factors that, among
others, could cause future results to differ
materially from the forward-looking statements, expectations and assumptions
expressed or implied herein.
All forward-
looking statements made by us are subject to risks and uncertainties
and are not guarantees of future performance.
These
forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties
and other factors that may cause our actual
results, performance and achievements or industry results to be materially
different from any future results, performance or
achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements.
These statements include EPS guidance and are
generally identified by the use of such terms as "may," "could," "expect," "intend," "believe," "plan," "estimate," "forecast,"
"project," "anticipate,"
“to be,” “to make” or other comparable terms. Forward looking
statements include the overall impact
of the Novel Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
on the Company, its results of operations, liquidity, and financial
condition (including any estimates of the percentage impact on these items),
the rate and consistency with which dental and
other practices resume normal operations in the United States and internationally,
expectations regarding PPE and other
COVID-19 related product sales and inventory levels and whether one or
more resurgences
of the virus will adversely impact
the resumption of normal operations,
as well as more generally current expectations regarding
performance in current and
future periods.
Forward looking
statements also include the Company’s ability to make additional testing available, the nature
of those tests and the number of tests intended to be made available and the
timing for availability, the nature of the target
market, as well as the efficacy or relative efficacy of the test results given that the test efficacy has not been,
or will not have
been, independently verified under normal FDA procedures. A full discussion
of our operations and financial condition,
status of litigation matters, including factors that may affect our business and future
prospects, is contained in documents we
have filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, or
SEC, and will be contained in all subsequent
periodic filings we make with the SEC. These documents identify
in detail important risk factors that could cause our actual
performance to differ materially from current expectations.
Risk factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially
from current and historical results
include, but are not limited to: effects of a highly competitive and consolidating
market; increased competition by third party
online commerce sites; our dependence on third parties for the manufacture
and supply of our products; our dependence upon