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168. GlaxoSmithKline

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Financials: Latest Results

Rank: 168 (Previous rank: 151)
CEO: Andrew Witty
Employees: 99,003
Address: 980 Great West Rd.
Brentford, TW8 9GS
Country: Britain
Website: www.gsk.com

	$ millions	% change from 2007
Revenues	44,654.0	-1.7
Profits	8,438.6	-19.1
Assets	56,637.3	—
Stockholders' equity	11,402.8	—

Profits as % of
Revenues	18.9
Assets	14.9

Industry: Pharmaceuticals

Rank	Company	Global 500 rank	Revenues ($ millions)
1	Johnson & Johnson	103	63,747.0
2	Pfizer	152	48,296.0
3	GlaxoSmithKline	168	44,654.0


4	Roche Group	171	44,267.5
5	Sanofi-Aventis	181	42,179.0
6	Novartis	183	41,459.0
7	AstraZeneca	268	31,601.0
8	Abbott Laboratories	294	29,527.6
9	Merck	378	23,850.3
10	Wyeth	401	22,833.9
11	Bristol-Myers Squibb	435	21,366.0
12	Eli Lilly	455	20,378.0

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