WARWICK – Ted Almon, president and CEO of Claflin Co., a Warwick-based distributor of medical equipment and supplies, was inducted into the Bellwether League, the health care supply chain hall of fame, on Oct. 5 at the Renaissance Chicago O’Hare Suites.
Almon was one of 15 Bellwether Class of 2010 inductees, who were chosen for their intellectual and operational contributions to health care, and for their initiatives in improving and promoting the profession of supply-chain management among hospitals.
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“Anything I may have done to deserve this honor was probably done by them first,” said Almon, referring to his fellow hall of fame inductees. “I’m happy to take credit but will share this award with all of them.”
Claflin jumped to No. 17 from 24 on PBN’s 2010 list of Top 100 Private Companies, with $146 million in revenue in fiscal 2009, surviving, if not thriving, in a tremendous cycle of consolidation, which has seen two very large companies – Owens & Minor and Cardinal Health – take control of about 90 percent of all the hospital and medical supply distribution.
Almon credited his company’s success to its ability to be innovative and to focus on things that very large companies have trouble doing.
Claflin recently renewed its regional contract with the U.S. Veterans Administration, serving the 11 hospitals in the New England region. “In Greater Boston, we have just moved into the No. 2 position, behind Owens & Minor. For an independent company, that’s very unusual,” Almon told PBN in a recent interview.
