Lake Mary, FL.–Island Dental Co., Inc., a leading full-service dealer to dental offices across the country, recently signed a national distribution agreement with KaVo America Corp. Under the terms of the agreement, Island Dental will offer the complete KaVo product line which includes handpieces and accessories, dental operatory cabinetry, diagnostic devices, handpiece maintenance products, operatory equipment, laboratory products and dental training systems.
According to Rick Maynard, Vice President of Kavo Instrument Sales, ”We are pleased to welcome the additional Island Dental locations to our distribution network. We look forward to strong sales and service support from the Island dental Team.”
Thanks to aggressive expansion in recent years, Island Dental is able to provide KaVo with full national distribution coverage via a network of 19 locations. “We are very pleased to be the national distributor for world-class KaVo products,” said Jeff Reichardt, Island Dental’s Executive Vice President of Sales and Operations. “This partnership will result in improved availability and quicker delivery for KaVo customers.”
Island Dental is currently stocking KaVo inventory and will complete employee training and begin shipping by mid January. For more information, call your local Island Dental location or visit www.islanddental.com.
About Island Dental
Island Dental, one of the fastest-growing dental dealers in the United States, is a subsidiary of Darby Group Companies’ dental division. Along with Darby Spencer Mead, the two entities combine for nearly 300 inside/outside sales reps, along with additional internal customer service support.
For more than 50 years, Darby has continued to thrive and evolve in the dental community. Darby’s reach extends into 19 distribution facilities and it fulfills over 3 million shipments per year from leading national and local manufacturers of medical, dental and veterinary supplies, laboratory equipment and pharmaceutical products.
KaVo, headquartered in Biberach/Riss, Germany, is one of the world's leading manufacturers of dental equipment for dental practices and dental laboratories, with annual sales revenues of 370 million euros in 2003 and about 3,000 employees.
The company's product portfolio ranges from extremely precise dental instruments to the fitting out of entire dental practices. It is comprised of four divisions: instruments, complete dental equipments, dental systems and laboratory. KaVo has German production facilities in Biberach, Warthausen and Leutkirch, and also production facilities in Italy, Brazil and North America. Furthermore, the company is represented in 21 countries through its own sales and service companies, and in other countries through exclusive dealer relationships.