| Owens & Minor, Inc. (O&M) is a distributor of medical and surgical supplies to the acute-care market, a healthcare supply-chain management company, and a national direct-to-consumer (DTC) supplier of testing and monitoring supplies for diabetics. In its acute-care supply distribution business, the Company distributes 180,000 finished medical and surgical products produced by over 1,200 suppliers to approximately 4,100 healthcare provider customers from 45 distribution centers nationwide. The Company typically provides its distribution services under contractual arrangements with terms ranging from 3 to 5 years. Most of O&M's sales consist of consumable goods, such as disposable gloves, dressings, endoscopic products, intravenous products, needles and syringes, sterile procedure trays, surgical products and gowns, urological products and wound closure products. Effective October 1, 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of certain assets and liabilities of The Burrows Company. |
