Emma Walmsley, GSK CEO (Fang Zhe/Xinhua/Alamy Live News)

A long time com­ing: Glax­o­SmithK­line of­fi­cial­ly changes name to GSK

Short­er is bet­ter, at least ac­cord­ing to Glax­o­SmithK­line, which of­fi­cial­ly changed its name on Mon­day to a sim­ple three let­ters: GSK.

The news comes weeks ahead of GSK’s an­tic­i­pat­ed con­sumer health­care spin­out, though it isn’t strict­ly linked to the de­merg­er, ac­cord­ing to a source with knowl­edge of the mat­ter. Though GSK first an­nounced the change back in April, it has been in the works for a while, the source said. GSK has of­ten made use of the ab­bre­vi­a­tion on build­ings and in an­nounce­ments (even its stock tick­er is $GSK).

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