9. Medline Industries
$13,900,000,000*
Northfield, Ill.
Employees: 27,000
*Fiscal year ended 12/31/2019
Medline touts itself as the largest privately-held manufacturer and distributor of medical supplies. The family-owned company offers more than 550,000 medical products and clinical solutions ranging from surgical gloves to wheelchairs to face masks to thermometers. As the COVID-19 pandemic ramped up earlier this year, Medline agreed to reprocess tens of thousands of N95 respirators and other face masks per day in its facilities — and it started cranking out hand sanitizer at an infection-prevention products plant in Wisconsin. Even amid a recession, Medline also hasn’t shied away from M&A deals, paying $167.5 million to acquire the Namic fluid management business from AngioDynamics and spending $29 million to buy the SensiCare and Aloe Vesta collection of skincare product lines from ConvaTec. – CN
Key personnel: Andy Mills, president; Charlie Mills, CEO; Jim Abrams, COO
