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Medifast Inc. (MED)At 4:02PM ET: 26.98  Up 0.26 (0.97%)  
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Medifast Inc.
11445 Cronhill Drive
Owings Mills, MD 21117
United States - Map
Phone: 410-581-8042
Fax: 410-581-8070
Web Site: http://www.medifastdiet.com

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Index Membership:N/A
Sector:Services
Industry:Specialty Retail, Other
Full Time Employees:290

BUSINESS SUMMARY 
Medifast, Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the production, distribution, and sale of weight management and disease management products, and other consumable health and diet products in the United States. The company’s product lines include weight and disease management, meal replacement, and vitamins. It also operates weight control centers that offer supervised model and an advertised brand, which encourages walk-ins and referrals from other Medifast business channels; and customized patient counseling programs, and the Inbody composition analysis. The company markets its products under Medifast brand, which include shakes, women’s health shakes, creamy soups, chicken noodle soups, beef vegetable stew, oatmeal, pudding, scrambled eggs, hot cocoa, cappuccino, chai latte, iced teas, fruit drinks, soy crisps, and crackers. It sells its products through various channels of distribution, including Web, call center, independent health advisors, medical professionals, weight loss clinics, and direct consumer marketing supported via the phone and the Web; Take Shape for Life, a physician led network of independent health coaches; and weight control centers. Medifast, Inc. was founded in 1980 and is headquartered in Owings Mills, Maryland.
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    CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 
    Medifast Inc.'s Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ®) as of 6-Nov-09 is better than 53.5% of Russell 3000 companies and 77.9% of Household & Personal Products companies.
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    KEY EXECUTIVES 
     PayExercised
    Col. Bradley MacDonald USMC (Ret.), 61
    Exec. Chairman, Treasurer and Member of Exec. Committee
    $ 225.00K $ 0
    Mr. Michael S. McDevitt , 31
    Chief Exec. Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Director and Member of Exec. Committee
    $ 210.00K $ 0
    Ms. Margaret E. MacDonald-Sheetz MBA, 32
    Pres, Chief Operating Officer
    $ 150.00K $ 0
    Major General Leo V. Williams III, 60
    Exec. VP, Chief Exec. Officer of Consumers Choice Systems and Chief Exec. Officer of Take Shape for Life Inc
    $ 157.00K $ 0
    Mr. Brendan N. Connors C.P.A., 31
    VP of Fin.
    $ 119.00K $ 0
    Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-08 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc. "Exercised" is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year.
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