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About GSK - Our company

Established in the year 1924 in India GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (GSK Rx India) is one of the oldest pharmaceuticals company and employs over 3500 people. Globally, we are a USD 42 billion, leading, research-based healthcare and pharmaceutical company. In India, we are one of the market leaders with a turnover of Rs. 1500 crore and a share of 6.2 per cent*. At GSK, our mission is to improve the quality of life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer. This mission drives us to make a real difference to the lives of millions of people with our commitment to effective healthcare solutions.

The GSK India product portfolio includes prescription medicines and vaccines. Our prescription medicines range across therapeutic areas such as anti-infectives, dermatology, gynaecology, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and respiratory diseases. The company is the market leader in most of the therapeutic categories in which it operates. GSK also offers a range of vaccines, for the prevention of hepatitis A, hepatitis B, invasive disease caused by H, influenzae, chickenpox, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus and others.

With opportunities in India opening up, GSK India is aligning itself with the parent company in areas such as clinical trials, clinical data management, global pack management, sourcing raw material and support for business processes including analytics.

GSK’s best-in-class field force, backed by a nation-wide network of stockists, ensures that the Company’s products are readily available across the nation. GSK has two manufacturing units in India, located at Nashik and Thane as well as a clinical development centre in Bangalore. The state of art plant at Nashik makes formulations while bulk drugs are manufactured at Thane.

Being a leader brings responsibility towards the communities in which we operate. At GSK we have a Corporate Social Responsibility program, that works towards fulfilling basic healthcare, education and other developmental needs of 15 tribal villages near Nashik. We work with underprivileged children from the slums of Mumbai, taking care of their developmental and health needs. GSK also runs an HIV/AIDS helpline - considered to be a pioneering effort in India that supports those in distress and despair.

GSK is committed to developing new and effective healthcare solutions. The values on which the group was founded have always inspired growth and will continue to do so in times to come.

* [Source: IMS Indian Purchase Audit (IIPA), August 2007]