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&lt;p style="margin-top: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" class="_mt" size="2"&gt;&lt;u&gt;NOTE 6 SEGMENT REPORTING &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 6px; text-indent: 4%; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" class="_mt" size="2"&gt;Patterson Companies, Inc. is comprised of three reportable segments: dental, veterinary, and rehabilitation supply. The Company's reportable business segments are strategic business units that offer similar products and services to different customer bases. The dental supply segment provides a virtually complete range of consumable dental products, clinical and laboratory equipment and value-added services to dentists, dental laboratories, institutions and other dental healthcare providers throughout North America. The veterinary supply segment provides consumable supplies, equipment, diagnostic products, biologicals (vaccines) and pharmaceuticals to companion-pet veterinary clinics in the majority of regions throughout the United States. The rehabilitation supply segment provides a comprehensive range of distributed and self-manufactured rehabilitation medical supplies and non-wheelchair assistive products to acute care hospitals, long-term care facilities, rehabilitation clinics, dealers and schools. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 12px; text-indent: 4%; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" class="_mt" size="2"&gt;The accounting policies of the segments are the same as those described in the summary of significant accounting policies set forth in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements included in the Company's 2010 Annual Report on Form 10-K filed June&amp;nbsp;23, 2010. The Company evaluates segment performance based on operating income. The corporate office general and administrative expenses are included in the dental supply segment and consist of home office support costs in areas such as informational technology, finance, human resources and facilities. The cost to operate the distribution centers are allocated to the operating units based on the through-put of the unit. &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font class="_mt" size="1"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" class="_mt" size="2"&gt;The following table presents information about the Company's reportable segments: &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-size: 12px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" class="_mt" size="2"&gt;Net sales&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 3em;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" class="_mt" size="2"&gt;Dental supply&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 3em;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" class="_mt" size="2"&gt;Rehabilitation supply&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" class="_mt" size="2"&gt;109,407&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 3em;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" class="_mt" size="2"&gt;Veterinary supply&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td valign="bottom" align="right"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" class="_mt" size="2"&gt;179,635&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" class="_mt" size="2"&gt;Consolidated net sales&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" class="_mt" size="2"&gt;Operating income&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 3em;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" class="_mt" size="2"&gt;Dental supply&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 3em;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" class="_mt" size="2"&gt;Rehabilitation supply&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p style="text-indent: -1em; margin-left: 3em;"&gt;&lt;font style="font-family: Times New Roman;" class="_mt" size="2"&gt;Veterinary supply&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td valign="bottom"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;
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          <NonNumericTextHeader>NOTE 6 SEGMENT REPORTING
Patterson Companies, Inc. is comprised of three reportable segments: dental, veterinary, and rehabilitation supply. The Company's</NonNumericTextHeader>
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