CAH

Cardinal Health, Inc.

A giant of the healthcare supply chain, Cardinal Health distributes prescription and over-the-counter medicines to hospitals, pharmacies, and labs, and also makes its own line of medical and laboratory products. It began in 1971 as Cardinal Foods, a grocery wholesaler founded by Robert D. Walter, who named it for Ohio's state bird and his high school mascot. In 1979 the company bought a small drug distributor and pivoted into pharmaceuticals, renaming itself Cardinal Health in 1994.