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Beautiful weather and an outstanding
location made for one of the best AVDA meetings in recent history. The
meeting held May 1-3, at the Ponte Vedra Inn and Club in Ponte Vedra
Beach, FL attracted record attendance to AVDA’s 2011 Annual Conference.
A total of 208 registered attendees, including 159 delegates and 49
spouses, the highest delegate attendance ever for an AVDA meeting, were
in attendance for this event.
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AVDA Honors Kathy Beins
with Posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award
The 2011 AVDA Lifetime Achievement Award
was given posthumously to Kathy Beins during the AVDA Annual Awards
Banquet on the closing night of the AVDA 2011 Annual Conference. Davey
Stone of Butler Schein Animal Health made the presentation to Kathy’s
husband John Beins of Bayer Animal Health.
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AVDA Donates to Douglas
County, KS 4-H in Memory of Kathy Beins
AVDA ‘s Kathy Beins Memorial Scramble Golf
Tournament held on Tuesday during the Annual Conference raised over
$5,000 from the sale of golf hole sponsorships and Mulligans to AVDA
members and friends. The association used these donations to
contribute $5,900 on behalf of AVDA to the Douglas County, KS 4-H, one
of Kathy Beins' favorite charities.
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Save the Date! AVDA
2012 Annual Conference
The 2012 AVDA Annual Conference will be
held April 29 - May 1, at the
Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa, Santa Ana in New Mexico. The
Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa is a resort like none other and is
situated between Santa Fe and Albuquerque at the base of the Sandia
Mountains. AVDA attendees will stay in luxurious
pueblo-style guestrooms that showcase traditional designs created
with natural materials but that still offer with the modern comforts.
AVDA attendees can enjoy a variety of activities at this at the Tamaya
Resort including a visit to the hotel’s
soothing spa, play in the 2012 AVDA golf tournament on the hotel’s
nationally-ranked
golf course , take a hot-air balloon ride or a horseback ride. We
hope you can join your AVDA colleagues at the
Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa, next April.
AVDA NEWS
AVDA Elects New Board
of Directors for 2011-12
AVDA proudly introduces its newly elected
chairman and board of directors for 2011-2012. The directors and
officers were elected at AVDA’s Annual Meeting held in Ponte Vedra
Beach, Florida on May 3, 2011.
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AVDA Distributes Annual
Report and Strategic Plan
During the 2011 Annual Conference, AVDA
distributed an Annual Report of the Association from 2010-11 to all
attendees.
A copy of the report is attached here and is posted on the AVDA
website. The AVDA board also presented its Strategic Plan that was
developed during strategic planning sessions held in September 2010 and
January 2011.
A copy of the plan can be found here.
AVDA Dues and State
Monitor Subscription Reminder
AVDA members were mailed dues invoices for
the 2011-12 fiscal year in May. AVDA’s fiscal year began on June 1, 2011
and dues were payable on that date. A reminder notice was sent to all
members in early July for dues and the State Monitor Service via email.
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GOVERNMENT RELATIONS
Revised Compounding
Brochure Now Available
Representatives from the Animal Health
Institute (AHI), American Veterinary Distributors Association (AVDA),
and American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) have been working
closely over the past year to revise the informational brochure on
veterinary compounding that was originally published in 2005. The
Compounding Brochure working group revised the brochure because since
the last publication date, changes had occurred in the regulatory arena
regarding compounding, and there is a continued need for clarifying
federal rules and differences between FDA-approved and unapproved drugs.
Revisions are now complete.
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LEGAL UPDATES
Cat's Paw Employment
Discrimination
Employment discrimination cases often
involve allegations that a decision to fire someone, was illegally
motivated by such things as racial, ethnic or gender bias. In some
cases, however, it is obvious that the decision maker had no first hand
knowledge about
the person who was fired. The decision was based on reports from
supervisors who lacked authority to make an employment termination
decision. Judge Posner used the term "cat's paw" to describe the
situation where a biased co-worker or supervisor manipulates an unbiased
decision maker to fire someone for illegal reasons.
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California Halts
Manufacturer From Prohibiting Online Retailers' Sales for Less than MSRP
Bioelements, Inc. markets a proprietary
line of products at beauty salons across the United States and through a
network of independent online retailers. In mid-2009, Bioelements
entered into written contracts with several dozen California-based
companies for the online retail sale of its products to the public. The
contracts stated the
retailer "shall not charge less than the Manufacturer's Suggested Retail
Price (MSRP)" when reselling Bioelements product, or the retailer is
"prohibited from charging more or less than the Manufacturer's Suggested
Retail Price (MSRP)."
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Third Party Retaliation
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
prohibits certain kinds of employment
discrimination and also prohibits retaliation against a person who
complains of illegal discrimination. Miriam Regalado charged her
employer, North American Stainless, with sex discrimination. Three weeks
later, North American Stainless fired Ms. Regalado's fiancée, Eric
Thompson. Mr. Thompson filed a lawsuit alleging that his discharge was
retaliation against Ms. Regalado for filing her charge of sex
discrimination.
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MEMBER NEWS
AVDA Welcomes New
Members
AVDA welcomes five members who joined
since we published our last newsletter.
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Animal Health
International Announces
Final Merger Transaction
Lextron, Inc. and Animal Health
International, Inc. (AHII) (Nasdaq: AHII), which also did business under
the name “Walco,” announced the close of their transaction and
completion of the merger. Lextron has acquired all of the outstanding
common shares of AHII for $4.25 per share, or approximately $111
million, plus the repayment of AHII's outstanding indebtedness, for a
total purchase price of approximately $251 million.
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Butler Schein Selects
New Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Financial Officer
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Leo E. McNeil
Chief Administrative Officer
Leo "Mac" McNeil has served as the Chief Administrative Officer
since 2011. Prior to his role as CAO, Mac was Executive Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer of Butler Schein Animal
Health (formerly Butler Animal Health Supply) since July 2005.
Before that role, Mac had been with The Butler Company for 28
years, serving in various positions in the area of finance. Mac
is an Ohio State University graduate with Accounting and MBA
Degrees. He is a Certified Public Accountant, and prior to
joining Butler had four years of internal auditing experience at
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Meryl Weinstein
Chief Financial Officer
Meryl Weinstein joined Butler Schein Animal Health in 2011.
Prior to her role as CFO, Meryl spent 11 years at Cardinal
Health in various positions including Director of Corporate
Financial Reporting; Vice President of Finance for Distribution;
and, most recently, Vice President of Strategy Management. Prior
to working for Cardinal Health, she worked for Bell & Howell,
Premark International and Price Waterhouse. She has her Bachelor
degree in Accounting from Indiana University and her MBA in
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Merck Announces New
Name for its Animal Health Division
Merck’s (NYSE:
MRK) animal health division, formerly known as Intervet/Schering-Plough
Animal Health, announced that it will begin using the new name,
Merck Animal Health. It will be known as MSD Animal Health outside the
United States and Canada.
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NAW NEWS
Brand New! Customer
Satisfaction: Best Practices for Boosting Profitability
Best-in-class distributors categorize
customers based on various factors, but customer stratification has long
been an unexplored area for most distribution companies. Not anymore. At
last, that gap is filled by this first-of-its-kind research study,
Customer Stratification: Best Practices for Boosting Profitability.
Specifically for wholesaler-distributors, this groundbreaking study
offers you 20 practical action steps that your company can implement
today and over time as a result of the best practice research conducted
with 68 real wholesaler-distributors across multiple lines of trade.
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New! Strategic Planning
for Distributors: Execution Isn't Everything - It's the Only Thing!
Strategic Planning for Distributors:
Execution Isn’t Everything—It’s the Only Thing! provides you with 11
proven best-practice strategy steps to apply as you run your business in
a rapidly changing competitive environment. The book, by Tom O'Connor,
draws on more than two decades of wholesale distribution research with
strategy execution secrets of successful wholesaler-distributors.
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