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advisors provides more than 1 million customers globally with more
than 300 valued solutions that help 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
300,000 branded products and Henry Schein corporate brand products
in our distribution centers.
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 33 countries and territories. The Company's sales reached
$12.6 billion in 2022, and
have grown at a compound annual rate of approximately 12.1 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
.
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
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“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 impact of the cybersecurity incident on our
business and results of operations, including the
accuracy of our estimates of the impact, the timing and extent of any
insurance claim recovery, and the timing of the
Company’s filing of its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2023, the overall
impact of the
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”) products 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
(i) our ability to have continued access to a variety of
COVID-19 test types, and COVID-19 vaccines and ancillary supplies,
and (ii) expectations regarding COVID-19 test sales,
demand and inventory levels.
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; legal, regulatory, compliance, cybersecurity, 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; adverse changes in supplier rebates or other purchasing
incentives; risks related to the sale of corporate