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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 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, Facebook.com/HenrySchein,
Instagram.com/HenrySchein,
and Twitter.com/HenrySchein
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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 personal protective equipment (“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 supply chain disruptions will adversely impact our
business, the impact of integration and restructuring
programs as well as of any future acquisitions, general economic conditions
including exchange rates, inflation and recession,
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 and domestic
macroeconomic and political conditions, including
inflation, deflation,
recession, fluctuations in energy pricing and the value of the U.S. dollar as compared
to foreign
currencies and changes to other economic indicators,
international trade agreements, potential trade barriers and terrorism;