Glaxo

by Richard Davenport-Hines, Judy Slinn

Glaxo is the world's second largest pharmaceutical multinational. This study of the company, from its beginnings to 1962, is based on unprecedented and unparalleled archival access to the company records. It gives a detailed account of the global operations of Glaxo, and describes not only the evolution of this international business, but studies its research and development programs, its products, and its marketing and management. It is a story of power, money and drugs, the first comprehensive study of a UK-based drugs company.

430 pages, ebook

First published November 26, 1992

About the author

Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines (21 June 1953) is a British historian and literary biographer, and a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Davenport-Hines was a leading signatory to a letter in The Guardian urging Britain to remain in the European Union during the membership referendum of 2016