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Title

Smith & Nephew in the health care industry / James Foreman-Peck.

Author

Foreman-Peck, James.

Publication

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Brookfield, Vt., USA : E. Elgar Pub., [1995], ©1995.

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Description

xiii, 269 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

• The health care industry is one of the few sectors in which Britain can claim a competitive advantage. Widely recognized as one of the most successful British manufacturing companies of the early 1990s, Smith & Nephew is the ideal example from which to isolate the sources of competitiveness.
• Smith & Nephew, a Hull based firm, was founded in 1856 and later linked up with Lancashire's cotton mills and the small workshops of Birmingham and London. During the 1980s Smith & Nephew grew from essentially a British company, with subsidiaries in Commonwealth countries and part ownership of some continental European firms, into a global health care business firmly established in Europe, North America and other key markets around the world.
• By the 1990s Smith & Nephew had become one of the select band of world class British manufacturing companies. This authoritative book provides an invaluable description of the origins and rise of one of Britain's most successful manufacturing companies. As the first comprehensive assessment of this significant company's history, the book will be welcomed by all those with an interest in corporate success, the evolution of health care and business history.

Alternative Title

Smith and Nephew in the health care industry.

Subject

• Smith & Nephew Medical
• Pharmacy > Great Britain > History
• History of Pharmacy
• United Kingdom

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-263) and index.

Contents

1. The pharmacy business in Hull, 1856-96 -- 2. Nineteenth century origins: family enterprise in Birmingham and Lancashire -- 3. The development of the health care market, 1850-1939 -- 4. Growth and diversification: Elastoplast, Gypsona and Lilia, 1896-1939 -- 5. Strategy and structure between the world wars -- 6. The health care environment since 1940 -- 7. Health care and cosmetics -- 8. Textile developments -- 9. Research, pharmaceuticals and plastics -- 10. Smith & Nephew overseas, 1906-80 -- 11. Finance, management and philanthropy -- 12. Globalization in the 1980s -- A chronology of Smith & Nephew.

ISBN

1858980852 :

LCCN

94021252

OCLC

• 30625055
• ocm30625055

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries