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Segment and Geographic Data (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 25, 2011

Notes to Financial Statements [Abstract]

Business Segments [Text Block]

The following tables present information about our reportable segments:

		Three Months Ended								Six Months Ended
		June 25,				June 26,				June 25,				June 26,
		2011				2010				2011				2010
Net Sales:
Healthcare distribution (1):
Dental (2)		$	709,338			$	677,560			$	1,372,121			$	1,292,209
Medical (3)			317,263				286,291				637,058				570,880
Animal health (4)			260,307				234,734				490,872				441,380
International (5)			781,675				602,435				1,460,647				1,211,888
Total healthcare distribution			2,068,583				1,801,020				3,960,698				3,516,357
Technology (6)			62,057				48,381				117,703				93,354
Total		$	2,130,640			$	1,849,401			$	4,078,401			$	3,609,711

(1)   Consists of consumable products, small equipment, laboratory products, large equipment, equipment repair services, branded and generic pharmaceuticals, vaccines, surgical products, diagnostic tests, infection-control products and vitamins.

(2)   Consists of products sold in the United States and Canadian dental markets.

(3)   Consists of products sold in the United States' medical market.

(4)   Consists of products sold in the United States' animal health market.

(5)   Consists of products sold in dental, medical and animal health markets, primarily in Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

(6)   Consists of practice management software and other value-added products and services, which are distributed primarily to healthcare providers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand.

		Three Months Ended								Six Months Ended
		June 25,				June 26,				June 25,				June 26,
		2011				2010				2011				2010
Operating Income:
Healthcare distribution		$	134,010			$	121,134			$	243,542			$	209,972
Technology			17,205				16,872				31,973				31,793
Total		$	151,215			$	138,006			$	275,515			$	241,765

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This element may be used to capture the complete disclosure about the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment, as a single block of text. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS)
-Number 131
-Paragraph 27, 28

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