Wright Medical Group (FRA:WM3) Other Assets for Banks

Wright Medical Group Inc, through Wright Medical Technology, Inc. and other operating subsidiaries, is a specialty orthopaedic company, that provides extremity and biologic solutions that enable clinicians to alleviate pain and restore their patients' lifestyles. The Company provides surgical solutions for the foot and ankle market and markets its products in over 60 countries. Its business includes products that are used in foot and ankle repair, upper extremity products, and biologics products, which are used to replace damaged or diseased bone, to stimulate bone growth and to provide other biological solutions for surgeons and their patients. Extremity hardware includes implants and other devices to replace or reconstruct injured or diseased joints and bones of the foot, ankle, hand, wrist, fingers, toes, elbow and shoulder, which it generally refer to as either foot and ankle or upper extremity products. The Company's manufacturing and warehousing operations are located in Arlington, Tennessee. Outside the U.S., The Company has distribution and administrative facilities in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and sales and distribution offices in Canada, Australia, and Europe. The Company operates its continuing operations as one reportable segment and offer products in extremity reconstruction and biologics. The Company's products include CHARLOTTE, CLAW II, DARCO, EVOLVE, MICRONAIL, GRAFTJACKET, OSTEOSET. Its competitors include major companies in the orthopaedic and biologics industries, as well as academic institutions and other public and private research organizations that continue to conduct research, seek patent protection and establish arrangements for commercializing products. The Company's products are strictly regulated by the FDA under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Some of its products are also regulated by state agencies.