SIC 5047 | NAICS 423450
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Comprehensive market research reports provide in-depth industry analysis and five-year forecasts, with special focus on the underlying structure and external forces and relationships that affect industries and their performance. Report contents include:
Monthly trade publication features news and information for healthcare products distributors with a focus on three closely-related market segments: physicians' offices, hospitals and surgery centers, and long-term care facilities. Digital editions are available online, with topics covered in each issue include industry developments, market analysis, emerging trends, and new products and services.
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Medical Equipment & Supply WholesalersFirst Research profiles cover key aspects of an industry's size, scope, and operations and include a five-year growth forecast. Profile contents include:
Horizon Reports
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Quarterly reports provide an in-depth look at specific markets, product lines, and trends, with recent topics
addressed in these reports including new and evolving primary patient care models driven by consumerism
in healthcare and their impact on specific market segments, and the types of home care services demanded
by an increasingly-larger aging population and their in-home caregivers.
Market Reports
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Annual market reports analyze trends impacting specific healthcare markets, with markets covered
by these reports including the laboratory (e.g., hospital labs,
physician office labs, blood banks, and other free-standing clinical locations), acute care (e.g., hospital),
physicians' offices, and extended care markets (e.g., home healthcare providers, nursing homes, and other
long-term care facilities).
Provider Surveys
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In-depth market survey analysis reports highlight key areas for each market in a graphic format and provide
insights on decision factors and services valued by supply chain executives who influence healthcare product
purchasing trends, with markets covered by these annual surveys including the laboratory, acute care hospital,
physician office, and home health care and nursing home markets.
Five-year financial statement analysis includes income statements, balance sheets, and key financial ratios, with data available by sales size range on a national, state, and metro area level.
Annual financial performance survey provides financial and operating performance benchmarks for healthcare products distributors, with survey data categorized by primary market focus (50 percent or more of annual sales) for three market mix categories (e.g., hospitals, long-term care providers and patients, and physicians' offices and alternate site providers such as clinics and laboratories).
Financial information section of this profile provides income statements, balance sheets, and financial ratios by company size based on annual net sales for companies that distribute health care products such as imaging equipment, surgical instruments, orthopedic and prosthetic devices, and disposable supplies to physicians, hospitals, laboratories, outpatient care centers, and long-term care facilities.
Annual salary survey for healthcare products sales representatives provides compensation data by job position, age, gender, experience, race/ethnicity, education level, products sold, percentage of workweek involving travel, and company size and type, with individual reports available by product category (e.g., devices, surgical, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and capital and DME equipment).
Free online service provides salary, bonus, and hourly wage data for job positions such as account manager, sales representative, clinical specialist, field service engineer, equipment technician, and customer service representative, with employers for which data is provided including Henry Schein, Inc., Owens & Minor, Inc., Cardinal Health, Inc., McKesson Corporation, and Medline Industries, Inc.
