{"id":625350,"date":"2025-12-11T02:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/625350\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T02:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:17:17","slug":"gsk-boss-says-us-is-the-best-country-to-invest-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/625350\/","title":{"rendered":"GSK boss says US is the best country to invest in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Speaking to the BBC from the firm&#8217;s central London headquarters, Dame Emma said she would not &#8220;shy away&#8221; from GSK&#8217;s investment plans for the US, where it makes more than half of its turnover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The US is &#8220;still the leading market in the world in terms of the launches of new drugs and vaccines,&#8221; she said. And alongside China, it was &#8220;the best market in the world to do business development,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">GSK&#8217;s latest stateside investment drive followed US pharmaceutical company Merck &#8211; which is called MSD in Europe \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckgzyxjr0lzo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scrapping a planned \u00a31bn expansion<\/a> of its UK operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">UK drug maker AstraZeneca has also announced it is pausing a planned \u00a3200m investment in a Cambridge research facility while ploughing tens of billions of dollars into the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Other drug companies have also said there is little appetite to invest in the UK which successive governments have insisted is a life sciences superpower. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking to the BBC from the firm&#8217;s central London headquarters, Dame Emma said she would not &#8220;shy away&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-625350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115698535377695926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}