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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 18, 2023, the Plan was amended to (i) provide for a multiple employer
plan, effective as of January 1, 2023, to allow for
the inclusion of certain joint ventures (where the Plan sponsor or a controlled group member
owns at least 50%) as participating
employers in the Plan; (ii) provide for the recognition of prior services for employees of
an acquired entity; (iii) effective January 1,
2024, exclude student interns as a class from participating in the Plan;
and (iv) clarify that forfeitures shall be used to make Employer
contributions before they are used to pay Plan expenses.
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,
2023 and 2022.
Plan participants may voluntarily make
qualified retirement contributions to the
Plan which are deductible by
the participants for federal
income tax purposes under Section
401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code
(“IRC”) or may be
made after-tax in the form of
a Roth elective
deferral 401(k) contribution (collectively,
401(k) Contributions).
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 $22,500 for year 2023
and $20,500 for year 2022, in accordance with the deferral limitations for such years
under the 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 2023
and 2022
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 401(k)
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 $7,500 in
year
2023 and $6,500 in year
2022.
Participants may also contribute amounts
representing distributions from other qualified defined benefit
or defined contribution plans (rollover).