Henry Schein, Inc. distributes healthcare products and services primarily to office-based healthcare practitioners. It operates in two segments, Healthcare Distribution and Technology. The Healthcare Distribution segment offers consumable dental products, dental laboratory products, and small equipment, including X-ray products, infection-control products, handpieces, preventatives, impression materials, composites, anesthetics, teeth, dental implants, gypsum, acrylics, articulators, and abrasives; and large dental equipment comprising dental chairs, delivery units and lights, X-ray equipment, equipment repair, and high-tech equipment. It also provides medical products, including branded and generic pharmaceuticals, vaccines, surgical products, diagnostic tests, infection-control products, X-ray products, equipment, and vitamins; and animal health products, such as branded and generic pharmaceuticals, surgical and consumable products and services, and equipment. The Technology segment offers software and related products, and value-added solutions that primarily include practice management software systems for dental and medical practitioners and animal health clinics. Its services also consist of financial services and continuing education services for practitioners. Henry Schein primarily serves dental practitioners and laboratories, physician practices, and animal health clinics, as well as government and other institutions. It operates in the United States, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the People’s Republic of China, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Henry Schein, Inc. was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Melville, New York.

The Patel brothers founded Waymade Healthcare in 1984, building off of the pharmacy business began by Vijay Patel in 1975. You might think the Patel brothers have it made in a big way, but they're not resting on their laurels. The owners of Waymade Healthcare, Vijay and Bhikhu Patel grew up impoverished in Kenya, but today oversee one of the UK's leading pharmaceutical distribution firms. Waymade Healthcare supplies pharmacists and hospitals in the UK and abroad with branded and generic prescription drugs. Its subsidiary Amdipharm (launched in 2002) develops novel pharmaceuticals.

Associated Wholesale Grocers, Inc.,the second-largest retailer-owned cooperative in the US (behind Wakefern Food Corporation), AWG supplies more than 1,900 member-stores in about 25 states with a wide array of grocery items from its eight distribution facilities. In addition to its wholesale operation, AWG offers a variety of business services to its members, including marketing and merchandising programs, shelf management, insurance, and store design. The firm also operates about 10 grocery store brands, including Country Mart and Homeland; it also owns a small number of supermarkets. AWG was founded by a group of independent grocers in 1924.

Toho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. company acquired fellow Japanese wholesaler Asucome in 2010 and made it a subsidiary. Toho has more than a toehold in Japan's pharmaceutical distribution market. Toho Pharmaceutical is one of the country's leading pharmaceutical wholesalers, supplying medicines and other products to tens of thousands of customers, including clinics, hospitals, medical institutions, and pharmacies. The company purchases pharmaceuticals, medical and hygienic materials, and medical devices from nearly 1,000 manufacturers in Japan and beyond. Toho Pharmaceutical also provides customers with management consulting, human resource development, and site management organization consulting.

Dole & Bailey, Inc. distributes wholesale food and grocery supplies, with a focus on sustainable produce, locally raised meat, and recyclable packaging. Its fleet of refrigerated trucks deliver products to restaurants, hotels, and institutions throughout New England and locations in northern New York and the Caribbean. Focusing on quality meats (beef, poultry, pork, lamb, and veal), Dole & Bailey also offers specialty game, kosher and halal meat, deli meats, fresh or frozen seafood, cheese and dairy products, produce, gourmet items such as foie gras and pate, and frozen convenience foods. The family owned company was founded in 1868.

Trujillo and Sons is a leading food distributor that supplies foodservice operators and retail grocery stores with dry goods, canned foods, beverages, and a variety of other goods. Most of its products are sold under the Alberto and Don Lucas brands; the company also provides private label packaging services through affiliated companies Trujillo Oil Plant (vegetable and cooking oils) and American Spice Company. Trujillo and Sons serves customers throughout the US, and in the Caribbean and South America. The family-owned company was founded in 1966 by Lucas Trujillo Sr.

Coastal Pacific Food Distributors (CPF) is a leading wholesale food distributor serving the US armed forces in the western US and in the Far East. The company delivers a full line of groceries from three distribution centers in California and Washington to military bases, including US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine facilities. CPF also offers information system programming services for its customers to track sales and shipping. The company was founded in 1986.

J.W. Filshill wholesales and distributes food, beverages and tobacco, including confectionary, snacks, soft drinks, groceries, beer, wine, and liquor to some 2,000 independant retailers. The company was founded in 1875 as a confectionary manufacturer, a business it divested in 1986 to concentrate on distribution. At one time it was a major cash-and-carry wholesaler, but now deliveries account for more than 85% of its business. While a warehouse fire and the loss of a major contract in mid-2005 hurt the company's profits, it intends to rebuild itself into a more efficient operation. Managing director Ronnie Hannah holds a controlling stake in the family firm.

The PHOENIX Group is one of the top five pharmaceutical wholesalers in the world. It operates exclusively in Europe with its headquarters in Mannheim, Germany. PHOENIX's wholesale activities cover most of the major European markets, and it commands a leading position in the "emerging countries". PHOENIX UK was born in November 1998 with the combined acquisition of L. Rowland & Co. Ltd based in Wrexham and Philip Harris Medical Ltd in Birmingham. The acquisition of a number of further regional wholesalers followed and these were all combined to form one wholesaling company, PHOENIX Healthcare Distribution Ltd. The UK headquarters is based at Runcorn in Cheshire, from which the corporate service divisions support the local business activities.One of the major business objectives is total customer satisfaction, and this is delivered from the platform: "All Business is Local". The individual wholesale depots are structured and empowered to provide the local service that customers require, with the support of the central corporate services. Investment is continually made within the warehouses and logistic functions to ensure that a high level of service is delivered, in combination with cost leadership. PHOENIX is a strong supporter of Numark, a company owned by PHOENIX, which has the aim of promoting and marketing the interests of community pharmacy. PHOENIX Healthcare Distribution provides the OTC offering to pharmacy.

Chindex International, Inc. engages in the provision of healthcare services; and sale of medical equipment, instrumentation, and products. The company operates in two segments, Healthcare Services and Medical Products. The Healthcare Services segment owns and operates the United Family Healthcare network of private hospitals and clinics in the Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou markets. This segment also operates a managed clinic in the city of Wuxi, south of Shanghai. It offers a range of family healthcare services, including 24/7 emergency rooms, intensive care units, and neonatal intensive care units, operating rooms, clinical laboratory, radiology, and blood banking services for men, women, and children. The Medical Products segment markets, distributes, and sells medical capital equipment, instrumentation, and other medical products for use in hospitals in China and Hong Kong. It offers diagnostic color ultrasound imaging devices, robotic surgical systems and instrumentation, mammography and breast biopsy devices, and lasers for cosmetic surgery. This segment sells its products through its direct sales force. The company was founded in 1981 and is based in Bethesda, Maryland.

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