About us

We are a science-led global healthcare company with a special purpose to improve the quality of human life by helping people do more, feel better, live longer.

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Every day, we help improve the health of millions of people around the world by discovering, developing and manufacturing innovative medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products.

We are building a stronger purpose and performance culture underpinned by our values and expectations - so that together we can deliver extraordinary impact for patients and consumers and make GSK a brilliant place to work.

Our values are Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity.
Our expectations are Courage, Accountability, Development, Teamwork.

What we do

We aim to bring differentiated, high-quality and needed healthcare products to as many people as possible, preventing and treating disease and keeping people well with our scientific and technical know-how and talented people.

Pharmaceuticals
Vaccines
Consumer Healthcare

Pharmaceuticals

Immune system T-cells attacking a cancer cell

Our Pharmaceuticals business has a broad portfolio of innovative and established medicines in respiratory, HIV, immuno-inflammation and oncology. We are strengthening our R&D pipeline through a focus on immunology, human genetics and advanced technologies to help us deliver transformational new medicines for patients.

Vaccines

We are the world’s largest vaccines company by revenue, delivering vaccines that help protect people at all stages of life. Our R&D focuses on developing vaccines against infectious diseases that combine high medical need and strong market potential.

Consumer Healthcare

Novamin, a key technology in Sensodyne Repair and Protect

Our world-leading Consumer Healthcare business combines science and consumer insights to create innovative everyday healthcare brands that consumers trust and experts recommend for oral health, pain relief, cold, flu and allergy, digestive health and vitamins, minerals and supplements.

In early 2020, we started a two-year programme to prepare GSK for separation into two new, exciting companies - a new GSK in Biopharma and a new world leader in Consumer Healthcare. We remain on track to separate in 2022.

How we do it

Everyone at GSK is focused on our three long-term priorities - Innovation, Performance, Trust - underpinned by our ambition to build a more purpose and performance driven culture, aligned to our values.

Innovation
Performance
Trust

Innovation

We invest in scientific and technical excellence to develop and launch a pipeline of new products that meet the needs of patients, payers and consumers.

£4.6bn
adjusted R&D investment in 2020
40
new medicines in development at FY 2020
17
new vaccines in development at FY 2020

Performance

We deliver growth by investing effectively in our business, developing our people and executing competitively.

£34bn
turnover in 2020
£9bn
adjusted operating profit in 2020
£5.4bn
free cash flow in 2020
£4bn
dividends paid in 2020

Trust

We are a responsible company. We commit to use our science and technology to address health needs, make our products affordable and available and be a modern employer.