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Smith & Nephew plc is a British-based multinational medical equipment manufacturing company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=SNN Profile | Smith & Nephew SNATS, Inc. Comm Stock - Yahoo! Finance )〕 It is an international producer of arthroscopy products, advanced wound management products, trauma and clinical therapy products and orthopedic reconstruction products.〔 Its products are sold in over 90 countries.〔 ==History== The company was founded in 1856 by Thomas James Smith of Kingston upon Hull who went into business as a dispensing chemist. A few months before his death in 1896, Smith was joined by his nephew, Horatio Nelson Smith, and the business became known as ''T.J. Smith and Nephew''.〔 In 1928 the company acquired the licence to market and produce the Elastoplast range of bandages. By 1977 the company acquired the pump manufacturer Watson-Marlow Pumps, before selling it to Spirax-Sarco Engineering in 1990. In 1986 it went on to acquire Richards Medical Company, a US specialist in orthopaedic products for £201 million.〔 In 2002 the company acquired ''Oratec Interventions'', a surgical devices business, for $310 million.〔(Smith & Nephew to buy Oratec for $310mm in cash ) Windhover Information, February 2002〕 It went on to buy ''Midland Medical Technologies'', a hip resurfacing business, for £67 million in 2004.〔(Smith & Nephew buys UK hip resurfacing business ) Biomedical Materials, 1 May 2004〕 The company acquired ''Plus Orthopedics'', a Swiss orthopedics business, for US$889 million in April 2007〔(Smith & Nephew buys Swiss company Plus Orthopedics ) Biomedical Materials, 1 April 2007〕 and ''BlueSky'', a US wound care business, for $110 million in May 2007.〔(Smith & Nephew buys wound care firm BlueSky for $110m ) Independent, 12 May 2007〕 In September 2007 Biomet Inc., DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. (part of Johnson & Johnson), Smith & Nephew PLC and Zimmer Holdings Inc. entered into settlement agreements, under which they agree to pay $300 million in total, adopt industry overhauls and undertake corporate monitoring to avoid criminal charges of conspiracy.〔(Biomet stays part of informal SEC probe ) Reuters, 11 October 2007〕 The company acquired Healthpoint Biotherapeutics, a specialist in the bioactives area of advanced wound management, for $782 million in December 2012.〔(Smith & Nephew to Buy Healthpoint for $782 Million ) Bloomberg, 28 November 2012〕 In February 2014, Smith & Nephew announced the purchase of ArthroCare for US$1.7 billion in cash. This was seen as a move to broaden the company's sports medicine range for minimally invasive surgery moves the company into the Ear, Nose & Throat market.〔(Smith & Nephew to Buy ArthroCare for $1.7 Billion in Cash ) Bloomberg 3 February 2014〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Smith & Nephew」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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