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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Indian pharmaceutical company}}<br />
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{{Infobox company<br />
| name = GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd<br />
| logo = GSK logo 2022.svg<br />
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| type = [[Public company|Public]]<br />
|traded_as={{BSE|500660}}<br />{{NSE|GLAXO}} <br />
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| foundation = {{Start date|df=yes|1924|11|13}} as H. J. Foster & Co. Limited<ref name=hjfoster>{{cite web|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/infocompanyhistory.cms?companyid=13715 |title=GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd. |newspaper=The Economic Times |access-date=3 May 2020}}</ref><br />
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| location_city = [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]] <br />
| location_country = India<br />
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| industry = [[Pharmaceuticals]] & healthcare<br />
| products = Medicines and [[vaccines]]<br />
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| revenue = {{increase}} {{INRConvert|3723|c}} (2025)<br />
| operating_income = {{increase}} {{INRConvert|1169|c}} (2025)<br />
| net_income = {{increase}} {{INRConvert|915|c}} (2025)<br />
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| num_employees = 3,100 (2025)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gsk-india.com/about-company.html |title=GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Limited - Company |publisher=Gsk-india.com |date=30 June 2010 |access-date=30 September 2010}}</ref><br />
| parent = [[GSK plc|GSK]] <br />
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| homepage = {{URL|https://india-pharma.gsk.com/}}<br />
| footnotes = Financials {{as of|2025|03|31|lc=y|df=yes}}.<ref>{{cite web |title=Annual Report FY2024-25 |url=https://india-pharma.gsk.com/media/7913/annual-report-2024-25.pdf |publisher=GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Limited |access-date=11 July 2025}}</ref><br />
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'''GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Ltd''' is an Indian research-based [[Pharmaceutical industry|pharmaceutical]] and [[Healthcare industry|healthcare]] company, and a subsidiary of [[GSK plc|GSK]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.businesswireindia.com/PressRelease.asp?b2mid=21773 |title=GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals Limited, Business Wire India, Press Releases, Dr. A Ramachandran |publisher=Businesswireindia.com |access-date=30 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101027095425/http://businesswireindia.com/pressrelease.asp?b2mid=21773 |archive-date=27 October 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/04/28/stories/2010042852380200.htm |title=GSK Pharma plans more investments to support growth |publisher=The Hindu Business Line |date=28 April 2010 |access-date=30 September 2010}}</ref> The company's product portfolio includes prescription [[Medication|medicines]] and [[vaccine]]s. Its prescription medicines range across therapeutic areas such as anti-infectives, [[dermatology]], [[gynaecology]], [[diabetes]], [[oncology]], [[cardiovascular]] disease, and respiratory diseases. It also offers a range of vaccines, for the prevention of hepatitis A, hepatitis B, invasive disease caused by H, influenzae, chickenpox, [[diphtheria]], [[pertussis]], [[tetanus]], rotavirus, cervical cancer, and others.<ref>{{cite news |title=GlaxoSmithKline: Glaxo baby grows up |url=https://www.businesstoday.in/magazine/special/story/oldest-mnc-in-india-glaxosmithkline-gsk-41137-2013-05-07 |access-date=29 January 2022 |work=Business Today |language=en}}</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
It was founded on 13 November 1924 in India under the name of H.J.Foster & Co. Limited as an Agency House for distributing Baby Food Glaxo, Joseph Nathan & Co. In 1950, it changed its name to Glaxo Laboratories (I) Ltd.<ref name=hjfoster /><br />
[[File:GSK logo 2014.svg|thumb|100px|Old GlaxoSmithKline logo until 9 June 2022]]<br />
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[[Category:Companies based in Mumbai]]<br />
[[Category:Pharmaceutical companies of India]]<br />
[[Category:Pharmaceutical companies established in 1924]]<br />
[[Category:GSK plc]]<br />
[[Category:Indian companies established in 1924]]<br />
[[Category:Companies listed on the National Stock Exchange of India]]<br />
[[Category:Companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange]]</div>Avdhut Kamble