The 2008 Dental Industry Metrics Report Out Now

DUBLIN, Ireland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/bf14ed/2008_dental_indust) has announced the addition of the "2008 Dental Industry Metrics Report" report to their offering.

This 476 page report allows any dental industry company to benchmark its performance against both large and small public companies. This year’s report includes companies based in Germany, China, England, Switzerland, Sweden, Belgium, Japan, New Zealand & the US.

For each company the report includes:
- Sales growth
- Earnings per share
- Market value of the company
- Sales per employee
- Net income per employee
- Executive compensation
- Number of employees
- Price to Earnings ratio
- Sales multiple
- Inventory turns
- Receivables days
- Shareholders Equity
- Return on Assets
- Return on Equity

These factors are also ranked by industry.

In addition, this report contains over 600 charts, graphs and tables – all restricted to companies within the worldwide dental industry. The report also contains direct company comparisons, like Colgate v. P&G Nobel Biocare v. Straumann – among others.

Companies in these industry segments are included:
- Insurance
- Laboratory
- Distribution
- Manufacturing
- Consumer OTC
- Practice Management

Companies Mentioned:
- 1st Dental Labs
- 3M
- Aastrom Biosciences
- Aetna
- Aflac
- AFP Imaging
- AHPC Holding
- Align Technology
- Alpha Pro Tech Ltd
- Altair Nanotechnologies
- American Dental Partners
- American Medical Technologies
- Avanir Pharmaceuticals
- Biolase Technology
- Biomimetic Therapeutics
- Biomet
- Birner Dental Management
- BSML
- Cadbury Schweppes
- Cantel Medical
- Carrington Laboratories
- CCA Industries
- Chatem
- Church & Dwight Co.
- Cigna Corporation
- Colgate-Palmolive Co.
- Collagenex Pharmaceutical
- Curagen Corporation
- Cytogen Corporation
- Danaher Corporation
- Del Global Technologies
- Dentsply International
- Diomed Holdings
- Dov Pharmaceutical
- Eastman Kodak Co.
- EBOS Group
- Emdeon (WebMD)
- Excel Technology
- FPIC Insurance Group
- General Electric
- Glaxosmithkline
- Henry Schein
- Humana
- IDEX Corporation
- Independence Holding
- Integra Lifesciences
- Isolagen
- Johnson & Johnson
- Kensey Nash Corporation
- K. Philips Electronics
- Landauer Inc
- Lifecell Corporation
- Lifecore Biomedical
- Lincoln National
- Lion Corporation
- Matrixx Initiatives
- MedCom USA
- Medical Action Industries
- MetLife
- Medtronic
- MGI Pharma
- Milestone Scientific
- Nakanishi Inc.
- National Dentex
- Nobel Biocare AB
- Noven Pharmaceuticals
- Oasis Healthcare
- Patterson Companies
- Pfizer Inc.
- Playtex Inc
- Prestige Brands
- Principal Financial
- ProAssurance
- Procter & Gamble Co.
- Pro-Dex Inc.
- Pure Bioscience
- Quality Systems Inc
- Remedent
- Sirona (Schick)
- SCPIE Holdings
- Sharps Compliance
- Software of Excellence
- Spire Corporation
- StanCorp Financial
- Stericycle
- Straumann
- Symmetry Medical
- Synergetics USA
- Theragenics
- Timken
- Tutogen Medical
- Unilever
- Varian Medical
- Wellpoint Inc.
- Winner Medical
- Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co.
- X-rite Inc.
- Young Innovations Inc
- Zila Inc.
- Zimmer

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/bf14ed/2008_dental_indust