free_text: 7-10 April 2002, to USA, to visit the USA headquarters of GlaxoSmithKline, who operate a manufacturing plant in my constituency at Barnard Castle where some redundancies have been announced. The purpose of my visit, which was at the invitation of the Vice-President in charge of World wide Manufacturing, was first, to ensure the long term future for the Barnard Castle site, and second, to explore the possibility of Bio-Tech start up companies in the County of Durham (UK) in association with Duke University and GSK. GSK paid for the flights and accommodation. (Registered 24 April 2002)
extracted_orgs: GlaxoSmithKline; World wide Manufacturing; Bio-Tech; Duke; University; GSK