Nobody really wants to go down this route and it is a case of who blinks first. There is a cast-iron rationale for maintaining a significant number of full-service branches and staffed offices. |
Parents are not only missing out on up to £645 in lost growth, but they are robbing themselves of the opportunity to invest with the provider of their choice. |
SmithKline is central to the restructuring of the pharmaceutical industry that is going on at the moment. With a 2 percent share of prescription drugs they need to get bigger. But they are also the right size for some of the market leaders to find them attractive, |
The pharmaceutical industry is an industry driven by new products, by value-added products coming out of research and development, |
You need some sort of footprint on the ground. |