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Henry Schein Inc and Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Class A

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Henry Schein Inc

Henry Schein, Inc. provides health care products and services to office-based dental and medical practitioners, and alternate sites of care worldwide. It operates through Global Distribution and Value-Added Services; Global Specialty Products; and Global Technology segments. The company offers dental merchandise, including infection-control products, handpieces, preventatives, impression materials, composites, anesthetics, teeth, dental implants, gypsum, acrylics, articulators, abrasives, and PPE products; dental equipment, such as dental chairs, delivery units and lights, digital dental laboratories, X-ray supplies and equipment, and high-tech and digital restoration equipment, as well as equipment repair; and branded and generic pharmaceuticals, vaccines, surgical products, diagnostic tests, and vitamins. It also provides financial services on a nonrecourse basis, education services for practitioners, consulting, and other services; and consumable merchandise under its own brand. In addition, the company manufactures, markets, and sells dental implant and biomaterial products; and endodontic, orthodontic and orthopedic products and other health care-related products and services. Further, it is involved in the development and distribution of practice management software, e-services, and other products to health care providers. The company serves customers in dental practices, laboratories, physician practices, and ambulatory surgery centers, as well as government, institutional health care clinics and other alternate care clinics. Henry Schein, Inc. was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in Melville, New York.

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Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Class A

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biotechnology company, focuses on the development and commercialization of therapies for gastrointestinal (GI) and rare diseases in the United States and internationally. It markets linaclotide, a guanylate cyclase type-C (GC-C) agonist for the treatment of adults suffering from irritable bowel syndrome with constipation or chronic idiopathic constipation, as well as for pediatric patients suffering from functional constipation under the LINZESS and CONSTELLA names. The company is also developing IW-3300, a GC-C agonist for the treatment of visceral pain conditions, including interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome and endometriosis; and Apraglutide, a long-acting synthetic peptide analog of glucagon-like peptide-2 for short bowel syndrome patients dependent on parenteral support, as well as for acute graft versus host disease. It has strategic partnerships with AbbVie Inc., AstraZeneca AB, and Astellas Pharma Inc. for the development and commercialization of linaclotide. The company was formerly known as Microbia, Inc. and changed its name to Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in April 2008. Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

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