UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM SD

Specialized Disclosure Report

 

 

HENRY SCHEIN, INC.

 

 

 

 

Check the appropriate box to indicate the rule pursuant to which this form is being filed, and provide the period to which the information in this form applies:

 

[X]  Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13p-1) for the reporting period from January 1 to December 31, 2015.

 

 

Section 1 – Conflict Minerals Disclosure

 

Item 1.01.  Conflict Minerals Disclosure and Report

 

Henry Schein, Inc. has filed a Conflict Minerals Report, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 1.01 in Item 2.01 and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 1.02.  Exhibit

 

Henry Schein, Inc. has filed a Conflict Minerals Report as Exhibit 1.01 to this Form SD.

 

 

Section 2 – Exhibits

 

Item 2.01.  Exhibits

 

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

 

 

SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

 

EXHIBIT 1.01

 

Henry Schein, Inc.

Conflict Minerals Report

For the Calendar Year Ended December 31, 2015

 

This report for the calendar year ended December 31, 2015 is presented to comply with Rule 13p-1 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Rule”).  The Rule was adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) to implement reporting and disclosure requirements related to conflict minerals as directed by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (“Dodd-Frank Act”).  The Rule imposes certain reporting obligations on SEC registrants whose manufactured products contain conflict minerals which are necessary to the functionality or production of their products. Conflict Minerals are defined as cassiterite, columbite-tantalite, gold, wolframite, and their derivatives, which are limited to tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold.  These requirements apply to registrants whatever the geographic origin of the conflict minerals and whether or not they fund armed conflict.

 

If a registrant can establish that the conflict minerals originated from sources other than the Democratic Republic of the Congo or an adjoining country (the “Covered Countries”), or from recycled and scrap sources, they must submit a Form SD which describes the Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiry (“RCOI”) completed.

 

If a registrant has reason to believe that any of the conflict minerals in their supply chain may have originated in the Covered Countries, or if they are unable to determine the country of origin of those conflict minerals, then the issuer must exercise due diligence on the conflict minerals’ source and chain of custody.  The registrant must annually submit a report, Conflict Minerals Report (“CMR”), to the SEC that includes a description of those due diligence measures.

 

Although a substantial percentage of the products we sell are purchased from third-party suppliers as finished products, we manufacture or contract with third parties to manufacture a small portion of our product portfolio.  We determined that certain of those products contain conflict minerals that are necessary to their functionality or production.

 

To determine if the conflict minerals in our manufactured products originated from sources in the Covered Countries, we conducted a RCOI in good faith.  We surveyed all known suppliers from whom we purchase materials containing the conflict minerals.  Where such suppliers did not initially provide sufficient information, we used the Conflict Minerals Reporting Template (a supply chain survey designed to identify smelters and refiners that process the necessary conflict minerals contained in our products) to obtain the relevant data.  All such suppliers provided to us one or more of the following:

 

 

 

 

As a result of our RCOI, we have no reason to believe that our necessary conflict minerals may have originated in the Covered Countries.

 

This information is publicly available at investor.henryschein.com.  The website and information accessible through it are not incorporated into this document.