Note 17 - Major Customers

12 Months Ended

Oct. 03, 2015

Notes to Financial Statements

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.  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 the beginning of fiscal 2013, sales to that customer would have been 13% of total net sales in fiscal 2013. Sales to that customer were 18% of total net sales in fiscal 2015 and 17% of total net sales in fiscal 2014.

We have a business relationship with other customers to distribute certain of our consumer products. Sales to one of these customers amounted to 10% of total net sales in fiscal 2015. Sales to another consumer customer amounted to 16% in fiscal 2014 and 32% in fiscal 2013.

See Note 18 for further information about sales to major customers.