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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 32 countries and territories. The Company's sales
reached $12.4 billion in 2021, and
have grown at a compound annual rate of approximately 12.5 percent since Henry
Schein became a public company in 1995.
For more information, visit Henry Schein at
www.henryschein.com
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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. A fuller discussion of our operations, financial
condition and 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, including our Annual Report
on Form 10-K, 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. 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 impact on these items), the rate and
consistency with which dental and other practices resume or maintain
normal operations in the United States and
internationally, expectations regarding PPE and COVID-19 related product sales and inventory levels, whether additional
resurgences or variants of the virus will adversely impact the resumption of normal operations,
whether vaccine mandates
will adversely impact the Company (by disrupting our workforce
and/or business), whether supply chain disruptions will
adversely impact our business, the impact of restructuring programs as well
as of any future acquisitions, and more generally
current expectations regarding performance in current and future periods.
Forward looking statements also include the (i)
ability of the Company to have continued access to a variety of COVID-19
test types, expectations regarding COVID-19 test
sales, demand and inventory levels, 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 and (ii) potential for the Company
to distribute the COVID-19 vaccines and ancillary supplies.
Risk factors and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from
current and historical results
include, but are not limited to: risks associated with COVID-19
and any variants thereof, as well as other disease outbreaks,
epidemics, pandemics, or similar wide-spread public health concerns
and other natural disasters; our dependence on third
parties for the manufacture and supply of our products; our ability to
develop or acquire and maintain and protect new
products (particularly technology products) and technologies that achieve
market acceptance with acceptable margins;
transitional challenges associated with acquisitions, dispositions and
joint ventures, including the failure to achieve
anticipated synergies/benefits; financial and tax risks associated with acquisitions,
dispositions and joint ventures; certain
provisions in our governing documents that may discourage third-party
acquisitions of us; effects of a highly competitive
(including, without limitation, competition from third-party online commerce
sites) and consolidating market; the repeal or
judicial prohibition on implementation of the Affordable Care Act; changes
in the health care industry; risks from expansion
of customer purchasing power and multi-tiered costing structures; increases
in shipping costs for our products or other
service issues with our third-party shippers; general global macro-economic
and political conditions, including international
trade agreements, potential trade barriers and terrorism; failure to
comply with existing and future regulatory requirements;
risks associated with the EU Medical Device Regulation; failure to comply with
laws and regulations relating to health care
fraud or other laws and regulations; failure to comply with laws and regulations
relating to the collection, storage and
processing of sensitive personal information or standards in electronic
health records or transmissions; changes in tax
legislation; risks related to product liability, intellectual property and other claims; litigation risks; new or unanticipated
litigation developments and the status of litigation matters; risks associated
with customs policies or legislative import
restrictions; cyberattacks or other privacy or data security breaches;
risks associated with our global operations; our