Glaxo: A History to 1962

by R. P. T. Davenport-Hines , Judy Slinn

• ISBN13: 9780521415392
• ISBN10: 052141539X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-01-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Glaxo is the world's second largest pharmaceutical corporation. 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 programmes, its products, and its marketing and management. It is the first comprehensive study of a UK-based drugs company and one of the relatively few scholarly studies yet written of front-ranking world companies.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

List of tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I. Merchants and Bonnie Babies: 1. The origins - Joseph Nathan and Co

2. The Nathans and proprietary foods 1903-1918

3. Boom and depression for Glaxo and the Nathans

4. Diversification into pharmaceuticals: Glaxo Laboratories Ltd

5. Early internationalisation and the growth of overseas markets 1909-1939

Part II. Pharmaceuticals in Britain: 6. Glaxo Laboratories and the hinge of fortune: the Second World War

7. Pharmaceuticals triumphant 1946-1962

8. Research and development: a strategy of science?

9. The development and commercial exploitation of griseofulvin

Part III. Internationalisation of Pharmaceuticals: 10. Glaxo Laboratories and the international development of the pharmaceutical industry

11. Across the Atlantic: North and South America

12. The commonwealth I: India and Pakistan

13. The commonwealth II: Australia and New Zealand

14. The commonwealth III. South Africa

15. Glaxo in Europe

16. Epilogue

Appendix

Notes

Selected bibliography

Index.