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The company states that its mission is to provide products and solutions that improve people’s lives every day. It reported approximately $222.6 billion in revenue for fiscal 2025 and describes a workforce of approximately 58,000 people across operations in 30 countries. 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Related services include pharmaceutical repackaging, hospital pharmacy management, and logistics, patient-support and purchasing services for manufacturers and healthcare providers. [P10533278][P75238109]\n\nIts medical portfolio includes examination and surgical gloves, compression products, nutritional-delivery products, wound-care supplies, needles and syringes, surgical apparel and laboratory products. Cardinal Health also assembles sterile and non-sterile procedure kits and distributes both its own and other manufacturers’ medical, surgical and laboratory products to healthcare facilities. Its WaveMark™ offering uses barcode and RFID technology for clinical inventory tracking, while OptiFreight® Logistics provides healthcare shipment and freight-management services. 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A $84 million corporate adjustment reconciled these geographic amounts to consolidated revenue of $222.578 billion. Cardinal Health also reported medical-products manufacturing facilities in Canada, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Thailand. [https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/721371/000072137125000079/cah-20250630.htm][P34408996]\n[P60468858][P462614][P92105464][T2946250][P34408996][https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/721371/000072137125000079/cah-20250630.htm]", "updatedAt": "2026-09-28T11:27:09.644376Z" }, { "type": "SEGMENTS", "text": "Cardinal Health reports two segments: Pharmaceutical and Specialty Solutions and Global Medical Products and Distribution. Its smaller Nuclear and Precision Health Solutions, at-Home Solutions, and OptiFreight Logistics businesses are grouped as “Other,” which is not a reportable segment. [P30251130]\n\nPharmaceutical and Specialty Solutions distributes branded, generic, specialty and over-the-counter medicines and provides services including hospital pharmacy management and support for specialty-drug manufacturers and providers. It generated $204.6 billion in fiscal 2025 revenue, approximately 91.9% of consolidated revenue. [P10533278][T9575770] Global Medical Products and Distribution manufactures, sources and distributes medical, surgical and laboratory products, and provides healthcare supply-chain services and procedure kits. Its $12.6 billion in revenue represented approximately 5.7% of consolidated revenue. [P94097933][P42816602][T9575770]\n\nOther generated $5.4 billion, approximately 2.4% of consolidated revenue. It encompasses radiopharmaceutical production and nuclear pharmacies, home-medical supply distribution, and healthcare shipping and logistics services. These percentages use consolidated revenue after a small corporate adjustment. 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