Talk:Cardinal Health

German page

german page over Cardinal Health still exists; so don `t delete interwiki. 85.8.124.13 20:39, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Sources

All text for the Cardinal Health site is pulled from publicly available sources. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.28.59.84 (talk) 13:07, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

This page needs some real fleshing out. How about some red-meat info, like plant location, product lines (Pyxis, Alaris, CareFusion, etc), with recall info as well. —Preceding unsigned comment added by BigOldHarry (talk • contribs) 20:36, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

"Competitors" section

Why delete "Competitors" section? True, an exhaustive list of business competitors may be difficult to achieve; but isn't a partial list more informative (and, thereby, preferable) to no list of competitors at all?--Circus54 (talk) 20:58, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

These sections can never be complete and are inherently arbitrary, and thus POV. They also tend to draw spam (the section I removed already had external links to the two companies listed) and the addition of unverifiable entities. Wikipedia isn't meant to be a shopper's guide. If we all are doing our job of categorizing properly, a de facto competitor list can be found at Category:Health care companies of the United States. Some related discussion can be found here and here. Regards, CliffC (talk) 23:32, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

After reading more about the "competitors" section issue, I can see where you're coming from & would acknowledge that -- done carelessly -- having such a section would be POV (I can't speak to the spam issue). I take some issue with the notion of a de facto competitors list though. It is apparent to me (having familiarity with the health care sector) that of the entities listed as health care companies, only a few of them provide similar (i.e., "competing") services as, in this case, Cardinal Health. What's more, many of the entities provide entirely different products or services (i.e., one might sell gauze, the next might be a managed care organization, and another might actually provide health care). That said, wouldn't some mention of relevant industry competitors (and acknowledging the source this information was drawn from -- I think I had provided a link to CNN Money or something) prove informative and useful to readers by helping them to more narrowly classify the subject matter? I respectfully submit these thoughts and am interested in discussing, especially since I am relatively new to editing & am still learning. Best,--Circus54 (talk) 00:51, 25 June 2009 (UTC)

I, too, believe that talking about the competitors in this M&A-ridden market space is crucial to understanding its business history and for historians and business students in studying any of today's major palyers in healthcare supplies.

In discussing a 1997 competitive bid which would have changed competition from a triad into a dual, McKesson bid Amerisource and Cardinal bid for Bergen, that did not happen (Amerisource and Bergen merged and made three larger players instead of two larger players), I hoped to bring some light to the competition between Cardinal and McKesson. MaynardClark (talk)

Kinray

Now that the stuff on Kinray has been included in this article, as per the afd discussion, how do we make the original article go away? --Ravpapa (talk) 12:30, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Later: forget it, I figured it out --Ravpapa (talk) 04:10, 17 April 2011 (UTC)