{"id":7099,"date":"2016-06-21T04:01:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T04:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/henry-schein-expands-footprint-in-japan-with-j-morita-stake\/"},"modified":"2016-06-21T04:01:05","modified_gmt":"2016-06-21T04:01:05","slug":"henry-schein-expands-footprint-in-japan-with-j-morita-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/henry-schein-expands-footprint-in-japan-with-j-morita-stake\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Schein expands footprint in Japan with J. Morita stake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Schein (NSDQ:HSIC) said it&#8217;s expanding its footprint\u00a0in the Japanese dental market by buying\u00a0a 50% stake in a subsidiary of J. Morita Corp. for an undisclosed amount. Melville, N.Y.-based Schein said the deal is for half of One Piece Corp., which has 8 dental dealerships in Japan and booked sales of roughly $  125 million last year. Schein said it 1st entered Japan with the\u00a0October 2014 acquisition of\u00a0Iwase Dental Supply; former managing director\u00a0Kenichiro &#8220;Ken&#8221; Iwase is due to lead the expanded Schein operation in there, the company said. &#8220;Japan represents an exciting strategic opportunity for Henry Schein,&#8221; chairman &#038; CEO\u00a0Stanley Bergman said in prepared remarks. &#8220;While Iwase Dental serves customers in the greater Tokyo area, the One Piec&#8230;<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/medworm.com\/index.php?rid=171718090&#038;cid=d_11_23_f&#038;fid=39396&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.massdevice.com%2Fschein-expands-footprint-japan-j-morita-stake%2F\">MedWorm: Dentistry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Schein (NSDQ:HSIC) said it&#8217;s expanding its footprint\u00a0in the Japanese dental market by buying\u00a0a 50% stake in a subsidiary of J. Morita Corp. for an undisclosed amount. Melville, N.Y.-based Schein said the deal is for half of One Piece Corp., which has 8 dental dealerships in Japan and booked sales of roughly $ 125 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[2098,9186,1571,9187,9188,3441,9189],"class_list":["post-7099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dental-news","tag-expands","tag-footprint","tag-henry","tag-japan","tag-morita","tag-schein","tag-stake"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1YapV-1Qv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elkhorndenture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}