The Smith & Nephew chief intent on making waves in tough times August 2, 2009 When politicians say that Britain should have more upmarket, research intensive manufacturing businesses, what they really mean is that we need more Smith & Nephews. Over the last five years, the firm, founded over 150 years ago, has grown its sales from £1.39bn to £2.3bn in 2008. It invests a very strong four per cent [...]
We need to find the next generation of chairmen July 8, 2009 THE news that Carl-Henric Svanberg, a Swede, is to chair BP highlights the increasingly international nature of UK plc. But it also raises the interesting question of where the next generation of chairmen and women for Britain’s blue-chip quoted companies will come from. Talk to any City headhunter and they will tell you more and [...]
Smith & Nephew hit by rejection October 28, 2005 Europe’s largest seller of orthopaedic devices saw its shares tumble to a two-year low after it abandoned producing a key leg ulcer treatment when America turned it down, but its sales are up. Smith & Nephew has abandoned production of a key leg ulcer treatment after it failed to win approval for the American market. [...]