PATTERSON COMPANIES INC

Patterson Companies, Inc. (http://www.pattersoncompanies.com) is a specialty distributor serving the United States and Canadian dental supply markets and the United States, Canadian and the United Kingdom animal health supply markets. The Company's segments include Dental, Animal Health and Corporate. The Dental segment provides a range of consumable dental products, equipment and software, turnkey digital solutions and services to dentists, dental laboratories, institutions, and other healthcare professionals throughout North America. This segment offers consumable products including infection control, restorative materials, and instruments. The Animal Health segment distributes animal health products, services, and technologies to both the production-animal and companion-pet markets in North America and the United Kingdom. Products it distributes include pharmaceuticals, vaccines, parasiticides, diagnostics, prescription and non-prescription diets, consumable supplies, equipment and software.

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