Grace's Guide
British Industrial History
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 144,990 pages of information and 230,624 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
GlaxoSmithKline
From Graces Guide
GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) is a British pharmaceutical company headquartered in Brentford, London. GSK was the world's sixth largest pharmaceutical company as of 2015.
2000 Established by a merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham
2013 UK sites. Research at Stevenage, Stockley Park, Ware; Manufacturing for prescription products at Irvine, Montrose, Ware, Barnard Castle, Worthing, Ulverston, and Cork; Manufacturing for consumer products at Maidenhead and Dungarvan
2015 Turnover £23.9bn with business in Pharmaceuticals, Vaccines and Consumer Healthcare markets.[1] Employ 43,538 persons in Europe. Ware 730. Offices in 115 countries, with major research centres in Belgium, China, the UK, the US and Spain, and 70 manufacturing sites globally. It has c100,000 employees, 13,000 of them in the UK.[2]