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About GSK

GSK is one of the world's leading research-based pharmaceutical and healthcare companies. Our mission is to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better and live longer.

Key facts



We develop, research, produce and market vaccines and medicines that target serious diseases. Our Consumer Healthcare business includes over-the-counter medicines and nutritional and oral healthcare products.

Our business employs over 100,000 people across the world.

Key statistics

(£ billion)	2005	2006	2007
Turnover
Total	21.7	23.2	22.7
Pharmaceuticals	18.7	20.1	19.2
Consumer healthcare	3.0	3.1	3.5
Total profit before taxation	6.7	7.8	7.5

Turnover by location of customer 2007

Our products

Medicines

Vaccines

Consumer Healthcare brands

Corporate responsibility at GSK
Responsibility is central to our business. We aim to operate in a way that reflects our values, to understand and respond to stakeholder views and to connect business decisions to ethical, social and environmental concerns. We seek to minimise the negative impacts and maximise the positive benefits of our business.

Our business makes a valuable contribution to society through the medicines and vaccines we produce which improve people’s lives. However we know that the research, development, manufacture and sale of medicines and vaccines raise ethical issues. Consequently, the pharmaceutical industry is subject to a high level of public scrutiny and sometimes critical media coverage.

Our approach to responsibility, our ability to implement high ethical standards and the openness with which we report our progress are all essential to maintaining good relationships with our stakeholders. These in turn help us to achieve the goals of our business strategy and underpin the future sustainability of our business.

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