The Old Powder Mills was a former research centre of GSK in Kent .
5-465: In 1949 the site became a pharmaceutical manufacturing factory, when Menley & James bought the site, who were owned by Smith, Kline & French . In 1952 the site became wholly owned by Smith, Kline & French (SK&F), running under the name Bridge Chemicals. SK&F was based in Welwyn Garden City , and the site ran under Smith Kline & French Research, or SK&F Research. In 1989,
10-505: The Smith, Kline and French Company . In 1932, SKF chemist Gordon Alles was awarded a patent for amphetamine . In 1968, the company acquired Recherche et Industrie Thérapeutiques in Belgium . SmithKline acquired Allergan in 1982, an eye and skincare business, and merged with Beckman Instruments, Inc. , a company specialising in diagnostics and measurement instruments and supplies. After
15-459: The company, as a bookkeeper. In 1875, he took on additional responsibilities as a salesman and added many new and large accounts, as a reward the company, Mahlon K Smith and Company, was renamed into Smith, Kline and Company. In 1891, Smith, Kline and Company acquired French, Richards and Company, founded in 1844 by Clayton French and William Richards, which provided the company with a greater portfolio of consumer brands. The combined business became
20-554: The site became part of SmithKline Beecham. By around 2000, when GSK was formed, around 300 people worked on the site. GSK left the site in 2010, after announcing the closure of the site in February 2010. It was situated in the west of Kent, off the A21 , north of the River Medway , south of Hildenborough . There was around 155,000 sq ft of laboratories and office buildings. The north part of
25-591: The site contained office buildings, and the South part of the site only contained laboratories. Smith, Kline %26 French Smith, Kline & French ( SKF ) was an American pharmaceutical company that is now a part of the British group GSK plc . In 1830, John K. Smith opened a drugstore in Philadelphia , and his younger brother, George, joined him in 1841 to form John K Smith & Co. In 1865, Mahlon Kline joined
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