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Cardinal HealthCardinal Health is one of the largest providers of health care products and services in the world.  Cardinal Health has 50,000 employees in 22 countries on five continents. Fortune magazine ranks it the 23rd largest corporation in America. Cardinal takes custom orders from dozens of drug companies to make and package oral, topical and inhaled drugs in a variety of forms. They make sterile, injectable drugs in liquid and freeze dried formulations. The company has several proprietary technologies. These include soft gelatin capsules and Zydis®, a technology that allows tablets to dissolve almost instantly on the tongue without the need for water. Founded by Robert Walter in l971 as Cardinal Foods, Inc. - a food wholesaler; the company moved into drug wholesaling with the purchase of the Bailey Drug Company 1979. In 2000 customers began ordering from cardinal.com, the most extensive online catalog of health care products. Cardinal plans its Product Development Center, capable of delivering a drug from lab to commercialization and forms Vistant Corporation to apply Pyxis' dispensing and logistic technologies beyond the health care market. The once struggling food-distribution company, named for Ohio’s state bird, now owns Pyxis, Owen Healthcare, Medicine Shoppe, R.P. Sherer Corporation, Automated Liquid Packaging, PCI Services Inc., and Allegiance Corporation. Cardinal health plays a vital role in developing and distributing the world’s newest health care technologies.    Whether buying a new car, or a used car, or selling a vehicle; first check KBB (Kelley Blue Book), Black Book, Red Book, or the NADA Used Vehicle Guide. For more on your total health, turn from Cardinal health to the  Cardinal Health. |