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Product Sales and Significant Customers and Vendors
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
Product Sales and Significant Customers and Vendors

NOTE N — PRODUCT SALES AND SIGNIFICANT CUSTOMERS AND VENDORS

Milestone’s sales by product and by geographical region are as follows:

 

 

 

Year End December 31,

 

 

 

2013

 

 

2012

 

Instruments

 

$

2,672,026

 

 

$

2,146,756

 

Handpieces

 

 

7,294,810

 

 

 

6,344,021

 

Other

 

 

44,584

 

 

 

157,465

 

 

 

$

10,011,420

 

 

$

8,648,242

 

United States

 

$

5,299,552

 

 

$

4,343,807

 

Canada

 

 

305,171

 

 

 

553,984

 

Other foreign

 

 

4,406,697

 

 

 

3,750,451

 

 

 

$

10,011,420

 

 

$

8,648,242

 

Milestone has informal arrangements with the manufacturer of the STA, CompuDent and CompuMed instruments, one of the principal manufacturers for those instruments pursuant to which they manufacture these products under specific purchase orders but without any long-term contract or minimum purchase commitment. Purchases from this supplier were $457,060 (13%) and $444,852 (18%) in 2013 and 2012, respectively. Milestone has a manufacturing agreement with one of the principal manufacturers, which is a related party, of its handpieces pursuant to which they manufacture products under specific purchase orders but without minimum purchase commitments. Purchases of handpieces from this vendor in China were $3,026,041 (87%) and $1,966,077 (82%) in 2013 and 2012, respectively. As further described in Note B, a five percent shareholder of Milestone is also a shareholder of this vendor. All other purchases from other suppliers were not significant in either 2013 or 2012.

For the year ended December 31, 2013, Milestone had two customers (distributors) that had approximately 42%, (21% and 21%) of its net product sales. Accounts receivable for the one major customer amounted to approximately $732,762, or 48% of gross accounts receivable. For the year ended December 31, 2012, Milestone had two customers (distributors) that had approximately 36%, (21% and 15%) of its net product sales. Accounts receivable, current and long term, for the three major customers amounted to approximately $421,890, or 38%, (8%, 10% and 20%) of gross accounts receivable.