RE: Pipeline pressure and Elliott’s stake have GSK in a spin18 Apr 2021 09:53
The split was something Neil Woodford campaigned for way back.
Neil Woodford said GlaxoSmithKline needs radical restructuring.
"The founder of Woodford Investment Management said GSK should be divided into separate companies, rather than run as a single £65bn giant.
In an exclusive interview with Radio 5 live's Wake up to Money he said GSK is so complicated it is "like four FTSE 100 companies bolted together".
And, he says, the pharmaceuticals giant does not "do a particularly good job of managing all of the constituent parts".
Dressed in jeans and a jumper, he talks freely, with fluency and with the confidence of someone whose portfolio of investments have comfortably and consistently outperformed the stock market."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35259184
He was a top 10 investor before dumping GSK.