Smith & Nephew Plc
Contents
Background
Smith & Nephew plc is a British-based multinational medical equipment manufacturing company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest producer of arthroscopy products, second-largest producer of advanced wound management products, third-largest producer of trauma and clinical therapy products and fourth-largest producer of orthopedic reconstruction products.[1]
History
Taken from the Smith & Nephew website:
- The Group has a history dating back over 150 years to the family enterprise of Thomas James Smith who opened a small pharmacy in Hull, England in 1856. On his death in 1896, his nephew Horatio Nelson Smith took over the management of the business.
- By the late 1990s, Smith & Nephew had expanded into being a diverse healthcare conglomerate with operations across the globe, including various medical devices, personal care products and traditional and advanced woundcare treatments. In 1998, Smith & Nephew announced a major restructuring to focus management attention and investment on three business units — wound management, endoscopy and orthopaedics— which offered high growth and margin opportunities.
- Smith & Nephew was incorporated and listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1937 and in 1999 the Group was also listed on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2001, Smith & Nephew became a constituent member of the FTSE-100 index in the UK. This means that Smith & Nephew is included in the top 100 companies traded on the London Stock Exchange measured in terms of market capitalisation.
- Today, Smith & Nephew is a public limited company incorporated and headquartered in the UK and doing business in many countries around the world.[2]
People
Board
- Sir John Buchanan - Chairman
- Olivier Bohuon - Chief Executive Officer
- Julie Brown - Chief Financial Officer
- Ian Barlow - Independent Non-Executive
- Virginia Bottomley - Independent Non-Executive Director
- Richard De Schutter - Senior Independent Non-Executive Director
- Michael Friedman - Independent Non-Executive Director
- Pamela Kirby - Independent Non-Executive
- Brian Larcombe - Independent Non-Executive Director
- Joseph Papa - Independent Non-Executive
- Ajay Piramal - Independent Non-Executive Director
- Susan Swabey - Company Secretary
Executive Management
- Olivier Bohuon - Chief Executive Officer
- Julie Brown - Chief Financial Officer
- Rodrigo Bianchi - President of IRAMEA
- Jack Campo - Chief Legal Officer
- Francisco Canal Vega - President Latin America
- Phil Cowdy - Head of Corporate Affairs
- Mike Frazzette - President, Advanced Surgical Devices
- Gordon Howe - Senior Vice President Global Planning and Development
- Helen Maye - Chief Human Resources Officer
- Cyrille Petit - Chief Corporate Development Officer
- Arjun Rajaratnam - Chief Compliance Officer
- Ros Rivaz - Chief Technology Officer
- Susan Swabey - Company Secretary
- Roger Teasdale - President, Advanced Wound Management
Affiliations
- Smith & nephew was a donor to the Science Media Centre in 2002-2009 and 2013 according to the SMC.[3]
Contact
- Smith & Nephew Healthcare Ltd
- Healthcare House
- 101 Hessle Road
- Hull
- HU3 2BN
- UK
- Telephone: 01482 222200
- Fax: 01482 222211
Notes
- ↑ At a glance, Smith & Nephew website. Accessed on 31/10/2013.
- ↑ Our History, Smith & Nephew website. Accessed on 31/10/2013.
- ↑ Data from Internet Archive holdings of the Science Media Centre website, 2002-2013. Sep 2002 http://web.archive.org/web/20021224034413/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/aboutus/fundingsystem.html Apr 2003 http://web.archive.org/web/20030625193943/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/aboutus/fundingsystem.html Nov 2003 http://web.archive.org/web/20040214043237/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/funding.htm Oct 2004 http://web.archive.org/web/20041205182639/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/funding.htm ; and http://web.archive.org/web/20051029205959/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/funding.htm Nov 2005 http://web.archive.org/web/20051227000834/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/funding.htm Apr 2006 http://web.archive.org/web/20060910221525/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/funding.htm Feb 2007 http://web.archive.org/web/20070829210611/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/funding.htm Jul 2008 http://web.archive.org/web/20081202143334/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/pages/about/funding.htm May 2009 http://web.archive.org/web/20090830202526/http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/pages/about/funding.htm Aug 2013 Science Media Centre, 'Funding' August 2013 screengrab of http://www.sciencemediacentre.org/about-us/funding/, taken 16 August 2013.
