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HENRY SCHEIN, INC. 401(k) SAVINGS
PLAN
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Note 1 – Description of Plan
The following description of the Henry Schein, Inc. 401(k) Savings Plan (the
“Plan”) provides only general information.
Participants
should refer to the Plan document or Summary Plan Description for a more complete description
of the Plan’s provisions.
(a) Nature of Operations
The Plan is a contributory defined contribution 401(k) plan originally effective
January 1, 1970.
The Plan was amended effective
December 26, 1993, to include an Internal Revenue Code Section 401(k) feature.
The Plan is subject to the provisions of the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”).
The third-party administrator is Fidelity Investments Institutional Operations
Company, Inc., (the
“Administrator”).
The Plan trustee is Fidelity Management Trust Company
(the “Trustee”).
Eligible employees
are those employed by Henry Schein, Inc. (the “Plan Sponsor” or the “Company”) and certain of the Company’s affiliates (collectively,
the “Employer”).
All employees (other than temporary employees) are eligible to make
salary reduction contributions to the Plan upon hire and become
eligible to be credited with Profit Sharing Contributions and the Employer Match (each
as described below) upon completion of a one
year period of service.
Temporary employees are
eligible to make salary reduction contributions to the Plan and to be credited with
Profit Sharing Contributions and the Employer Match on the first July 1 or January
1 following the completion of a twelve consecutive
month period during which the temporary employee is credited with at least one
thousand hours of service or the completion of three
consecutive plan years starting
on or after
January 1, 2021
in each of
which the temporary employee
is credited with
at least five
hundred
hours of service.
If an individual is initially classified as a temporary employee and then is reclassified as a regular
participant, the
participant is immediately eligible to make salary reduction contributions
to the Plan, and is eligible to be credited with Profit Sharing
Contributions and the Employer Match upon the earlier of a completion of
a one year period of service or when he or she would have
been eligible to be credited with Profit Sharing Contributions and the Employer
Match if he or she would have remained a temporary
employee.
On December 30, 2022, the
Plan was amended to (i)
provide for the recognition of
prior service for employees of
an acquired entity; and
(ii) permit participants to make Roth elective deferrals and to provide for an in-plan
Roth conversion feature.
On June 29, 2022, the Plan entered into
an agreement with Henry Schein One, LLC,
whereby the account balances of certain employees
of Henry Schein One, LLC participating in the Plan were transferred to the Henry
Schein One, LLC 401(k) Retirement Plan effective
July 1, 2022.
(b) Contributions
The Plan provides for a discretionary Employer contribution (the “Profit
Sharing Contribution”) of a percentage of a participant’s
base
compensation, as defined under the Plan.
There were no discretionary Profit Sharing Contributions for the years ended December
31,
2022 and 2021.
The Plan allows employees to
elect to contribute, through payroll
deductions, stated percentages from 1%
to 50% of their
compensation,
as defined under the Plan, not to exceed $20,500 for year 2022 and $19,500
for the year ended 2021, in accordance with the deferral
limitations for such years under the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”).
For Plan years beginning on and after January 1, 2021, the
Employer Match is a percentage of participant 401(k) contributions set by
the Company in its discretion. Starting with the 2021 Plan
Year,
this percentage was set at 100% of participant 401(k) contributions up to the lesser of 7% or the participant’s deferral percentage,
multiplied by the participant’s base
compensation, as defined under the Plan.
For the 2022 and 2021 Plan years, the Employer Match
was allocated 100% to the
participant’s investment elections on file, subject to a
20% allocation limit to
the Henry Schein, Inc. Common
Stock Fund.
Participants age 50 or over are permitted to make additional catch-up tax deferred contributions once the participant has reached a limit
on those contributions imposed either by the Plan or by law.
The extra amount a participant may contribute may not exceed $6,500
in
each of the years 2022 and 2021.
Participants may also contribute amounts representing distributions from other qualified
defined
benefit or defined contribution plans (rollover).
The Plan provides
for the automatic enrollment in the Plan, at a deferral percentage of 3% of compensation,
of eligible employees
initially hired by
the Company or
its participating affiliates on
or after March
1, 2014, unless
the employee elects
not to make
401(k) plan
contributions or elects to make elective 401(k) plan contributions at a different
percentage.