Michael Ian Hirst

W.R. Swann & Co. Ltd. operates as a holding company with interest in manufacturing surgical blades, scalpels, and handles. The firm's products include disposable scalpels, stitch cutters, post mortem, skin grafts, and blade removers. The company was incorporated on July 7, 1948 and is headquartered in Sheffield, the United Kingdom.

Swann-Morton Ltd. manufactures surgical blades, scalpels, and handles. Its products include surgical blades, supplied non-sterile and individually wrapped handles, fine blades, cygnetic handles, blade management systems, disposable scalpels, stitch cutters, post mortem scalpels and blades, skin graft range blades, craft knives, and blade removers. The company was founded in August 1932 by W. R. Swann, J. A. Morton and D. Fairwether and is headquartered in Sheffield, the United Kingdom.

Founded in 1920, Jewel Blade Ltd. is a part of Swann-Morton Foundation and engages in manufacturing metal cutlery. The company is based in Sheffield, UK.