In Brief: SmithKline Beecham
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
SmithKline Beecham: Ignace Goethals appointed president of worldwide supply operations, a newly created position, to integrate the recently acquired Sterling Winthrop manufacturing facilities and to review SmithKline's own pharmaceutical and consumer health care manufacturing and distribution operations. They were previously managed separately. SmithKline bought Sterling's OTC business in August ("The Tan Sheet" Sept. 5, 1994, pp. 1-7). Goethals joined SmithKline in 1990 from Bristol-Myers Squibb, where he was VP-strategic analysis. He most recently served as president of SmithKline Beecham Animal Health, which was sold to Pfizer in later 1994...