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Note 18 - Major Customers
12 Months Ended
Sep. 28, 2013
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18. MAJOR CUSTOMERS


The largest of our medical customers are distributors who sell our products to acute care hospitals and long-term care facilities throughout the United States and Canada. One of our medical customers acquired another of our medical customers during fiscal 2013. If the customers had been under common ownership since 2011, sales to that customer would have been 13% of net sales in 2013, 11% in 2012 and 18% in 2011.


We have a business relationship with another customer to distribute certain of our consumer products. Sales to this customer amounted to 32% of net sales in 2013, 34% of net sales in 2012, and 28% of net sales in 2011.


See Note 19 for further information about sales to major customers.