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GlaxoSmithKline

The London-based multinational drugmaker, also known as GSK, supplies key products such as vaccines in China, as well as drugs for lung disease and cancer. In 2013, the company was targeted by Chinese authorities over alleged corruption, price-fixing and quality controls.

Chairman / President

Jonathan Symonds

CEO / Managing Director

Dame Emma Natasha Walmsley

CFO / Finance Director

Julie Brown

Industry

Pharmaceutical

Website

gsk.com

Headquarters address

79 New Oxford Street, London, WC1A 1DG, United Kingdom

Stock Code

NYSE:GSK
LSE:GSK

Year founded

2000

last updated:

30 September, 2024

A nurse fills a syringe with malaria vaccine at the Lumumba Sub-County hospital in Kisumu, Kenya. Photo: Reuters

Medicine

WHO recommends malaria vaccine for children, to be rolled out next year

The vaccine, developed in the UK, will become available to countries by mid-2024 and doses will cost between US$2 and US$4, said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday.

3 Oct 2023 - 2:27AMvideocam

Coronavirus pandemic

This man says he can beat Covid-19 with nasal sprays, not needles

4 Jun 2022 - 5:39AM

Coronavirus pandemic

GlaxoSmithKline to manufacture Novavax Covid-19 vaccine in UK

30 Mar 2021 - 2:00PM

Health & Fitness

Chinese drugs firm aims to bring down cost of breast cancer treatment

Shanghai-based Genor Biopharma plans to seek regulatory approval for coprelotamab to be used in China on late-stage breast cancer patients.

7 Oct 2020 - 8:25PMvideocam

Breast cancer accounted for nearly 20 per cent of all female cancer incidences in China in 2018, according to the World Health Organization. Photo: View Portfolio

Medicine

In pandemic lesson, drug maker Stada turns to China for supply security

Stada Arzneimittel, owned by private equity firms Bain Capital and Cinven, is turning to China to enhance its supply security and boost sales presence in Asia’s biggest pharmaceutical market.

4 Jun 2020 - 11:17AMvideocam

Britain

UK watchdog investigates Chinese broadcaster for airing ‘forced confession’

Briton Peter Humphrey and his wife, Yu Yingzeng, were sentenced in China in 2014 for illegally obtaining and selling private records of Chinese citizens.

9 May 2019 - 5:06AM

Disease

Malawi becomes world’s first country to roll out malaria vaccine

After more than three decades in development and almost US$1 billion in investment, the new vaccine began to be distributed in Lilongwe, the nation’s capital.

24 Apr 2019 - 6:39AM

A mother holds her baby, who is receiving a new malaria vaccine as part of a trial in October 2009. Photo: AP

Corruption in China

China, US and hard cash are emboldening corporate whistle-blowers

27 Nov 2017 - 7:18PMvideocam

Medicine

U.S. FDA approves GSK next-generation HIV drug dolutegravir

22 Nov 2017 - 3:03PM

Wellness

Alibaba partners with GSK for online HPV vaccine service

10 Nov 2017 - 7:45PM

GSK’s deal with Alibaba comes at a time when China’s health care market is projected to grow at a compound annual rate of 12 per cent by 2020. Photo: Reuters

Corruption in China

US judge dismisses lawsuit against GSK over China whistle-blower

3 Oct 2017 - 1:11PM

A judge in the United States has dismissed a lawsuit by two former corporate investigators who accused British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline of misleading them into investigating a whistle-blower in China. Photo: Xinhua

Corruption in China

How Western firms in China can avoid the corruption dragnet

22 Aug 2017 - 7:06PM

Business Insider

New joint venture to study electronic implants for conditions like diabetes and asthma

4 Aug 2016 - 2:44PM

Nowhere to hide from bribery laws

At a closed-door trial held last month in Hunan province, one-time high-flying business executive Mark Reilly was handed a three-year suspended prison sentence for his role in the largest corporate bribery scandal involving a foreign firm in China.

17 Nov 2014 - 8:19AM

GSK China was the subject of a bribery probe. Photo: Kwong Man-ki

Hong Kong hot spot for lawyers

When Cathy Palmer first came to Hong Kong as a US prosecutor more than 20 years ago, she was chasing heroin-smuggling triads who later sent a booby-trapped package to her Brooklyn office.

28 Oct 2014 - 5:42AM

GlaxoSmithKline was fined a record US$489 million in China last month for bribing doctors to help sales of its drugs. Photo: Reuters

Multinationals in China on alert in wake of GSK case

In the wake of the Chinese government's punishment of GSK and some of its former senior executives for corruption, multinationals are changing their behaviour and strategies in China, said industry observers.

23 Sep 2014 - 5:18AM

Alibaba

Mr. Shangkong | The tale of Alibaba and GSK a sign of China's rise on world stage

Alibaba celebrated its landmark US$21.8 billion listing in New York on Friday - the largest IPO in American history - on the same day that GlaxoSmithKline was hit by a record fine of US$500 million imposed by the central government.

22 Sep 2014 - 11:24AM

GlaxoSmithKline hit with record 3b yuan fine for bribing Chinese doctors

China has imposed a record fine of three billion yuan (HK$3.78 billion) on British pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for bribing doctors to use its drugs.

15 Jun 2018 - 12:31PM

GlaxoSmithKline China health care unit 'part of US probe'

A US anti-bribery probe into GSK touched on the firm's Chinese consumer health care business in 2012, internal documents show, suggesting the drugmaker's compliance problems in China could go wider than previously revealed.

10 Sep 2014 - 8:58AM

British investigator Peter Humphrey jailed for 2.5 years for buying private data

A year after his detention sent shockwaves through China's booming due-diligence industry, British corporate investigator Peter Humphrey admitted in a Shanghai court yesterday that he paid contractors for private information on Chinese citizens for almost a decade.

9 Aug 2014 - 5:59PM

Live | LIVE: Chinese court jails GSK investigator Peter Humphrey for 2½ years on privacy charges

The British corporate investigator Peter Humphrey and his Chinese-American wife Yu Yingzeng were handed fines and jail sentences of two years in Shanghai on Friday after being convicted on charges of "illegally obtaining private information".

8 Aug 2014 - 11:47PMvideocam

Peter Humphrey seen in his testimony aired on CCTV. Photo: Screenshot

GSK sleuth Peter Humphrey caught by increasing Chinese restrictions on obtaining information

Briton Peter Humphrey and his American wife, Yu Yingzeng, face trial on Friday for illegally obtaining personal information of Chinese citizens.

8 Aug 2014 - 9:35AM

Peter Humphrey and his wife will be tried for illegally obtaining personal information of Chinese citizens.

Son visits investigator Peter Humphrey and his wife in detention

The only child of corporate investigators Peter Humphrey and Yu Yingzeng has been allowed to visit his parents in their detention centre in Pudong, Shanghai.

4 Aug 2014 - 6:37PM

'I was only trying to help': Peter Humphrey's letter to son insists China detective work was for public good

Corporate sleuth Peter Humphrey believes he worked for the public good by helping victims of crime, according to a letter seen by the Post that he wrote to his son Harvey from prison.

31 Jul 2014 - 10:38AM

Update | ‘We deeply regret breaking the law’: GSK-linked Peter Humphrey and wife formally charged in China

Prosecutors have filed charges against British investigator Peter Humphrey and his American wife, after the couple were detained last year following work they did for GlaxoSmithKline.

14 Jul 2014 - 6:26PM

Prosecutors have filed charges against British investigator Peter Humphrey and his American wife Yu Yingzeng. Photo: SCMP Pictures

US expresses concern over secret trial of GSK investigators in China

The United States has expressed concern after its officials were barred from the Chinese trial of two investigators for British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline who are accused of illegally buying and selling private information.

5 Jul 2014 - 4:02AM

The arrest of American Yu Yingzeng (left) and her British husband Peter Humphrey last year coincided with Chinese accusations that GSK bribed doctors and officials to use its medications. They face trial on August 7. Photo: CCTV

Briton Peter Humphrey and wife face trial in GlaxoSmithKline saga

British corporate investigator Peter Humphrey and his Chinese-born wife, Yu Yingzeng, will go on trial in Shanghai on July 29.

1 Jul 2014 - 7:10AM

Sex video emerges in new twist to China's GlaxoSmithKline bribery scandal

GlaxoSmithKline on Sunday confirmed the existence of an intimate video recording of its former China head, Mark Reilly, The Sunday Times reported.

30 Jun 2014 - 3:58PM

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