Patterson Dental helped push its parent company's fourth-quarter and year-end fiscal 2013 results to new heights.
Patterson Companies reported consolidated sales of $965 million for the fourth quarter of 2013 (end-April 27), up 3.1% from $936.3 million in the same quarter a year ago. Net income for the quarter was $63.6 million, compared with net income of $62.1 million in last year's fourth quarter.
Fourth-quarter sales for Patterson Dental -- which accounts for two-thirds of Patterson's overall sales -- saw a 6.4% increase year over year. The dental group reported sales of $634 million in the fourth quarter of 2013, compared with $599 million in the same quarter of 2012.
The dental group reported sales of $2.38 billion for 2013, up from $2.29 billion in 2012.
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