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Pharma giant GSK employee shouts racial slurs on flight, fired: WATCH video

In the viral video, the chemical engineer of GSK Pharma can be shouting racial slurs while also looking for his bags while walking up and down the aisle of the plane.

Sep 09, 2022, 16:25 PM IST

GSK rejects $68 billion Unilever bid for consumer healthcare unit

GlaxoSmithKline said  it has rejected an unsolicited 50 billion-pound ($68.4 billion) bid from Unilever for its consumer healthcare goods unit, a joint venture it controls in a partnership with Pfizer.

Jan 16, 2022, 08:43 AM IST

GSK-CureVac's 2nd Covid vaccine shows better immune response

CV2CoV has higher neutralising capacity against a range of variants, including the Beta, Delta and Lambda variant and the original virus strain, the company said in a statement on Monday.

Aug 17, 2021, 16:33 PM IST

Drug regulator DCGI gives nod for Sanofi-GSK's phase 3 trial of COVID vaccine in India

The French pharma company Sanofi and its British peer GSK aim to produce up to one billion doses in 2021.

Jul 08, 2021, 14:18 PM IST

Sanofi-GSK COVID vax shows strong immune responses in Phase 2 trial

A COVID-19 vaccine developed by pharmaceutical giants Sanofi and Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK) has shown strong rates of neutralising antibody responses against the infectious Coronavirus disease in the Phase-II trial.

May 18, 2021, 14:10 PM IST

Government lifts restriction on export of Paracetamol, moves it to free category

The government on Thursday lifted the restrictions imposed on the export of Paracetamol – a medicine which is used in treatment of COVID-19 infection and treating fever.

May 28, 2020, 19:49 PM IST

GSK selling $3.45 billion stake in Hindustan Unilever

GSK struck a deal to fold its Indian business - whose main product is Horlicks - into Unilever`s Indian unit Hindustan Unilever in exchange for shares in the combined group.

May 07, 2020, 09:49 AM IST

GSK Consumers Healthcare gets shareholders' approval for merger with HUL

The company has received 99.99 per cent votes in favour of the scheme of amalgamation among the company and Hindustan Unilever Ltd (HUL) in the National Company Law Tribunal-convened meeting of the equity sharehoders on June 1, 2019.

Jun 03, 2019, 10:38 AM IST

GSK sells anaesthetics to Aspen for up to $370 million

GlaxoSmithKline is to sell its portfolio of anaesthetic drugs to South Africa`s Aspen Pharmacare for up to 280 million pounds ($372 million) as part of a drive by the British drugmaker to focus on core therapy areas.

Sep 12, 2016, 13:41 PM IST

GlaxoSmithKline, Alphabet create $715 million bioelectronics firm

GlaxoSmithKline and Alphabet`s life sciences unit are creating a new company focused on fighting diseases by targeting electrical signals in the body, jump-starting a new field of medicine known as bioelectronics.

 

Aug 01, 2016, 13:16 PM IST

GSK gets EU approval for first gene therapy for children

The world`s first life-saving gene therapy for children, developed by GlaxoSmithKline and Italian scientists, was approved for sale in Europe on Friday, in a step forward for the pioneering technology to fix faulty genes.

May 27, 2016, 22:54 PM IST

GlaxoSmithKline CEO Witty to bow out in March 2017

Witty, a 31-year company veteran, has been under fire from some investors in the past three years as sales and profits have flagged. His reputation was further tarnished by a damaging bribery scandal in China.

Mar 17, 2016, 16:04 PM IST

Popular antidepressant neither safe nor effective for teens

Depressed teens shouldn't take the widely used antidepressant paroxetine as it is neither safe nor effective, as per a reanalysis of an influential study originally published in 2001.

Sep 20, 2015, 17:34 PM IST

GSK Pharma's Bengaluru facility to be operational by 2017

GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals (GSK India) has said its greenfield manufacturing facility at Bengaluru, having an installed capacity of over 9 billion tablets and capsules per year, will be operational by 2017.

Aug 02, 2015, 15:18 PM IST

GlaxoSmithKline targets growth across units, scraps ViiV listing

GlaxoSmithKline laid out growth targets for its biggest businesses on Wednesday, hoping to convince investors that focusing on consumer health and vaccines would return the drugmaker to long-term growth.

May 06, 2015, 17:28 PM IST

New-look GSK bets on consumer health spending

GSK predicted on Wednesday its consumer health sales would grow at a mid-single-digit compound annual rate over the next five years, slightly ahead of overall company sales.

May 06, 2015, 17:06 PM IST

Sun Pharma to buy GSK's opiates business in Australia

The business includes two manufacturing sites in Tasmania and Victoria, and consists of poppy-derived opiate raw materials mainly used to make analgesics for pain treatment. 

Mar 03, 2015, 09:53 AM IST

EU puts conditions on deals involving Novartis, GSK

The European Union on Wednesday approved mega deals involving drugmakers Novartis of Switzerland and GlaxoSmithKline of Britain, provided they sell off assets in the vaccines and consumer health businesses.

Jan 29, 2015, 00:14 AM IST

Novartis okays OTC unit sale to GSK Consumer for Rs 109.7-cr

Novartis India's board on Tuesday approved the sale of its OTC division to GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Pvt Ltd, a consumer healthcare joint venture between Novartis AG and GSK, for a consideration of Rs 109.7 crore.

Jan 13, 2015, 19:15 PM IST

GSK confirms hundreds of US job cuts as market gets tougher

Many of the jobs lost will be from GSK`s Research Triangle Park site in North Carolina as drug research is consolidated in Philadelphia and in Stevenage, near London.

Dec 04, 2014, 08:53 AM IST