Blood pressure kits

Chain Drug Review, Jan 7, 2008

Blood pressure kits

                                    % change                 % change
                                       vs.                     vs.
Trade class           Dollar sales   year ago   Unit sales   year ago

TOTAL MASS             $84,625,100    + 1.18%    1,498,685    + 2.73%
  MARKET ([dagger])
DRUG STORES            $71,214,810    + 5.14%    1,240,744    + 6.25%
SUPERMARKETS            $6,360,882    - 8.17%      119,576    - 4.69%

Best-sellers in drug stores

                                                            Dollar
                                              Dollar        sales
Brand              Manufacturer                sales       % change

Omron              Omron Health Care        $51,650,270   +   0.89%
Homedics           Homedics                  $4,836,409   + 298.33%
Sunmark            Sun Mark                  $2,640,399   +   6.53%
Lifesource         A & D Engineering         $2,310,595   -   1.49%
Mabis              Mabis Healthcare            $700,601   +  48.25%
Microlife          Micro Idea Instruments      $545,648   -  30.50%
Mabis Smart Read   Mabis Healthcare            $282,803   +  71.66%
Samsung Healthy    Samsung America             $268,658          --
  Living
Lumiscope          Lumiscope                   $223,245   +   2.10%
A & D Medical      A & D Engineering            $97,492   -  81.32%

                             Dollar
                   Dollar    share      Unit
Brand              share    % change    sales

Omron              72.53%    - 3.06%   723,100
Homedics            6.79%    + 5.00%    60,953
Sunmark             3.71%    + 0.05%    51,841
Lifesource          3.24%    - 0.22%    42,233
Mabis               0.98%    + 0.29%    12,673
Microlife           0.77%    - 0.39%     8,970
Mabis Smart Read    0.40%    + 0.15%     4,776
Samsung Healthy     0.38%    + 0.38%     2,902
  Living
Lumiscope           0.31%    - 0.01%     6,280
A & D Medical       0.28%    - 1.28%     4,365

                     Unit                Unit
                    sales      Unit     share
Brand              % change   share    % change

Omron             +   2.37%   58.28%    - 2.20%
Homedics          + 326.73%    4.91%    + 3.69%
Sunmark           +   1.34%    4.18%    - 0.20%
Lifesource        +  17.20%    3.40%    + 0.32%
Mabis             +  20.05%    1.02%    + 0.12%
Microlife         -  20.68%    0.72%    - 0.25%
Mabis Smart Read  +  92.35%    0.38%    + 0.17%
Samsung Healthy          --    0.23%    + 0.23%
  Living
Lumiscope         +   5.17%    0.51%    - 0.01%
A & D Medical     -  74.63%    0.35%    - 1.12%

* Private label brands account for 10.45% of dollar sales and 25.76% of
unit sales.

([dagger]) Sales are through drug stores, supermarkets and discount
stores (except Wal-Mart Stores Inc.) for the 52 weeks ended
November 4, 2007.