Key achievements
Our mission is to improve the quality of human life by enabling people to do more, feel better, live longer. Discover more about us below...
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We are the 1st pharmaceutical company to sign up to the AllTrials campaign for research transparency.
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We invested £3.1 billion in 2014 in our search to develop new medicines, vaccines and consumer products.
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Four new products approved in 2014 (in major markets)
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We have around 40 new molecular entities in phase II/III development.
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We have 84 manufacturing sites in 36 countries making our medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products.
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4 billion albendazole tablets donated to eliminate two neglected tropical diseases since 1998.
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More than 13,000 people work in R&D in our search for new medicines, vaccines and consumer healthcare products.
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In 2014, we distributed more than 800 million doses of vaccines around the world.
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We employ around 98,000 people in over 100 countries, with more than a third of these in emerging markets.
In March 2015 we acquired Novartis’s vaccines business (excluding influenza vaccines) and combined our Consumer Healthcare businesses to create a new company.