Founded in 1971 by inventor Össur Kristinsson, Össur HF is headquartered in Reykjavik, Iceland and provides 15 countries with orthopedic technology, including prosthetics, compression therapies, bracings and supports. Manufacturing many products, the company’s biggest cash cows in 2010 were bracings and supports at 50 percent of all market sales, with prosthetics making 45 percent and compression therapies 5 percent. Össur HF deals mainly in the Americas, with 52 percent of their sales there, and Europe, Middle East and Africa combining for a total of 43 percent of sales in 2010. Össur places as second-largest player in the global bracing and supports trade, with market share in the range of 7 to 9 percent, and is the second largest player in the prosthetics market with market share in the range of 19 percent to 21 percent.
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