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Baxter Hospital Supply, Deerfield, Ill., once the sole-source distributor for Premier Hospitals Alliance, Westchester, Ill., faces a cut in sales as Premier's distribution program goes dual-source with the award of a five-year agreement in June to Owens & Minor, Richmond, Va. This is Premier's first contract with Owens & Minor and becomes effective Aug. 1.
Cutting Baxter's business is consistent with Premier's April decision to decrease business with the company by as much as $50 million in the next 12 months in response to Baxter's March 25 guilty plea of violating U.S. laws against the boycott of Israel. (For complete story, see "Baxter too big to be hurt by Arab controversy," HIT, May 1993, …