CHINDEX
Chindex
International, Inc.
AN
OVERVIEW
General
Profile
Chindex
International, Inc. (Chindex)* is a
leading American company in the healthcare
sectors of the Chinese marketplace, including
Hong Kong and Macau. Founded in 1981, the Company
has accumulated unique executive management
expertise in China trade and a dominant
competitive position in its healthcare market
sectors.
Chindex is an
American public company traded on the NASDAQ
stock exchange. It is a New York corporation with
company headquarters located in the Washington,
D.C. metropolitan area. Chindex has over 200
full-time employees worldwide, more than 180 of
whom reside in China and Hong Kong. In China,
Chindex operates three representative offices,
three subsidiary companies, and two joint
ventures.
The Companys
business activities are conducted in China
including Hong Kong and Macau. Revenues are
generated from the sale of healthcare products
and the provision of healthcare services. On the
basis of exclusive agreements, Chindex markets,
sells, and facilitates the export of select
capital healthcare equipment and instrumentation
to China. It is the largest independent U.S.
distributor of healthcare equipment in China.
Through a network of wholly foreign-owned
subsidiaries, the Companys Products
Distribution business imports and distributes
off-the-shelf healthcare instrumentation and
consumable products. Healthcare services revenue
is generated through the Companys private
hospital, Beijing United Family Hospital.
The Chindex growth
plan includes continuing expansion of the capital
medical equipment and instrumentation business,
rapid expansion of the Products Distribution
product portfolio, with an emphasis on increasing
the number and variety of products that are sold
directly to retail pharmacies, and the
development of a network of private family
hospitals, based on the Beijing United Family
Hospital model, to serve Chinas growing
middle class.
*
U.S.-China Industrial Exchange, Inc. has long
been known as "Chindex," its original
telex address acronym from the early 1980s.
Beginning in 1998, the Company formally began
doing business as Chindex International, Inc.,
although its legal name remains U.S.-China
Industrial Exchange, Inc.
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