Smiths Group appoints FTI as financial PR adviser

Smiths Group, the FTSE 100 global technology company, has appointed FTI Consulting as its retained financial PR adviser.

Andrew Lorenz, FTI Consulting’s chairman, Deborah Scott, senior managing director, Dwight Burden, senior director, Alex Le May, director and consultant Zander Swinburne will make up the account team.

FTI’s team will report to Smiths Group chief executive Andrew Reynolds Smith, finance director Chris O’Shea and group director of corporate affairs, Andrew Lappin.

Smiths Group has five divisions – John Crane, Smiths Medical, Smiths Detection, Smiths Interconnect and Flex-Tek – which focus on threat and contraband detection, medical devices, energy, communications and engineered components markets across the world.

Its customers range from governments and their agencies, to hospitals, petrochemical companies and equipment manufacturers and service providers in various sectors worldwide.