Glaxo. A history to 1962
Details:
- Author(s) Davenport-Hines, R P T, & Judy Slinn
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1992
- Pages 406pp; illus
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Place Published Cambridge
Topics:
- Name Multinational cos exc free standing & general trading cos
- Name Diversification strategies
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Library:
- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Notes:
A history financed by the firm and undertaken in the Business History Unit, London School of Economics. Covers the origins of the business to the 1960s. In particular traces the international expansion of the business post 1945. Structure in three parts: Part 1] 'Merchants and bonnie babies': 'The origins - Joseph Nathan & Co'; 'The Nathans and proprietary foods, 1903-18'; 'Boom and depression for Glaxo and the Nathans'; 'Diversification into pharmaceuticals - Glaxo Laboratories Ltd'; 'Early internationalisation and the growth of overseas markets, 1909-39'; Part 2] 'Pharmaceuticals in Britain': 'Glaxo Laboratories and the hinge of fortune - the Second World War'; 'Pharmaceuticals triumphant, 1946-62'; 'Research and development - a strategy of science?'; 'Development and commercial exploitation of griseofulvin'; Part 3] 'Internationalisation of pharmaceuticals': 'Glaxo Laboratories and international development of the pharmaceutical industry'; 'Across the Atlantic - North and South America'; 'The Commonwealth I - India and Pakistan'; 'The Commonwealth II - Australia and New Zealand'; 'The Commonwealth III - South Africa'; Glaxo in Europe'; 'Epilogue'