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00:02:18 1 History
00:02:27 1.1 Glaxo Wellcome
00:06:28 1.2 SmithKline Beecham
00:08:17 1.3 2000: Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham merger
00:09:02 1.4 2001–2010
00:10:53 1.5 2011–present
00:15:05 1.5.1 GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare spin-off
00:15:16 1.5.1.1 GSK–Novartis consumer healthcare buy-out
00:15:54 1.5.1.2 GSK–Pfizer joint venture
00:16:41 1.5.1.3 Subsequent split
00:17:02 1.6 Venture arms
00:17:52 2 Research areas and products
00:18:03 2.1 Pharmaceuticals
00:19:54 2.2 Malaria vaccine
00:21:35 2.3 Consumer healthcare
00:22:35 2.4 Facilities
00:23:04 3 Recognition, philanthropy and social responsibility
00:23:17 3.1 Scientific recognition
00:25:01 3.2 Philanthropy and social responsibility
00:27:45 4 Controversies
00:27:54 4.1 2012 criminal and civil settlement
00:28:05 4.1.1 Overview
00:30:48 4.1.2 Rosiglitazone (Avandia)
00:34:55 4.1.3 Paroxetine (Paxil/Seroxat)
00:37:25 4.1.4 Bupropion (Wellbutrin)
00:38:04 4.2 Antitrust case over griseofulvin
00:39:42 4.3 Ribena
00:40:59 4.4 SB Pharmco Puerto Rico
00:42:42 4.5 China
00:43:45 4.6 Market manipulation in the UK
00:44:29 4.7 Miscellaneous
00:46:34 5 Acquisition-history diagram
00:46:44 6 See also
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"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think."
- Socrates
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GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) is a British multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Brentford, London. Established in 2000 by a merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham, GSK was the world's sixth largest pharmaceutical company as of 2015, after Pfizer, Novartis, Merck, Hoffmann-La Roche and Sanofi.Emma Walmsley became CEO on 31 March 2017 and is the first female CEO of the company.The company has a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. As of August 2016 it had a market capitalisation of £81 billion (around $107 billion), the fourth largest on the London Stock Exchange. It has a secondary listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
GSK's drugs and vaccines earned revenue of £21.3 billion in 2013. Its top-selling products that year were Advair, Avodart, Flovent, Augmentin, Lovaza and Lamictal. GSK's consumer products, which earned revenue of £5.2 billion in 2013, include Sensodyne and Aquafresh toothpaste, the malted-milk drink Horlicks, Abreva for cold sores, Breathe Right nasal strips, Nicoderm and Nicorette nicotine replacements, and Night Nurse, a cold remedy. The company developed the first malaria vaccine, RTS,S, which it said in 2014 it would make available for five percent above cost. Legacy products developed at GSK include several listed in the World Health Organization Model List of Essential Medicines, such as amoxicillin, mercaptopurine, pyrimethamine and zidovudine.
In 2012 GSK pleaded guilty to promotion of drugs for unapproved uses, failure to report safety data, and kickbacks to physicians in the United States and agreed to pay a $3 billion (£1.9bn) settlement. It was the largest health-care fraud case to date in that country and the largest settlement by a drug company.
