SMITH AND NEPHEW PLC PENSION SCHEME

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0074 LMA/4557
Held at	: London Metropolitan Archives   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/lma ›
Full title	: SMITH AND NEPHEW PLC PENSION SCHEME
Date(s)	: 1983-1997
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 0.01 linear metres.
Name of creator(s)	: Smith and Nephew Plc Pension Scheme

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The company website provides the following history:

Having established a pharmaceutical chemist shop in 1856, Thomas James Smith entered into partnership with his nephew, Horatio Nelson Smith, in 1896 to form T J Smith and Nephew. The pair worked on developing medical dressings and saw their business expand between 1914 and 1918 to meet the needs of the military during the First World War. During the 1920s, the company began to develop Elastoplast plasters and, through subsequent acquisitions, have gone on to occupy a significant position in the medical market. The organisation currently operates four Global Business units across thirty-two countries: Orthopaedic Reconstruction and Trauma; Endoscopy; Advanced Wound Management; and Biologics.

Information available at http://www.global.smith-nephew.com/master/our_history_early_history_6184.htm and http://www.global.smith-nephew.com/master/about_us_what_we_do_1205.htm (accessed October 2010).

The Smith & Nephew UK Pension Fund was established in October 1961, and is open to permanent employees with at least three months service and who are over the age of 21. Benefits of the scheme include life assurance protection, a pension based on final pensionable earnings, and the opportunity to make Additional Voluntary Contributions.

Information taken from Smith and Nephew UK Pension Fund: Your Future Security (LMA/4557/01/002).

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of the Smith and Nephew Plc Pension Scheme, comprising pension scheme explanatory booklets.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Chronological order.

Conditions governing access:

These records are available for public inspection, although records containing personal information are subject to access restrictions under the UK Data Protection Act, 1998.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to this collection rests with the depositor.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by The Pensions Archive Trust in August 2008.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:

Description compiled by Susan Gentles.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
November 2010 to January 2011.