• Home
• Responsibility
• CR Report 2004
• Caring for the environment
• Suppliers
• Supplier performance

Supplier performance

We have approximately 80 centrally managed key suppliers, which include both contract manufacturers and suppliers of materials.

We are working towards quantifying the environmental impact of our contract manufacturers. This is a more difficult process than collecting data from our own sites because contract manufacturers are independently managed.

In 2004 we collected data from 14 major contract manufacturers for some core EHS parameters. The contract manufacturers produced 6,185,459 kilograms of product for GSK (including raw materials, primary and secondary manufacturing and secondary packaging). They disposed 37.8 million kilograms of hazardous waste and 4.9 million kilograms of non-hazardous waste. They used 541,535 gigajoules of energy related to energy and transport activities (146,737 gigajoules of electricity, 392,673 gigajoules of other non-transport fuels, and 2,125 gigajoules of transport fuels). Data from these companies are not included in any of the charts and they are not included in the verification by ERM.

See health and safety of Suppliers.

Back to top