Emma Walmsley will be the seventh woman chief executive in the FTSE 100 index of leading sharesEmma Walmsley will become the most powerful woman in the FTSE 100 index in March when she takes the helm at GlaxoSmithKline. She will be seventh woman chief executive in the index of leading shares, joining Dame Carolyn McCall at easyJet, Alison Brittain at Whitbread, Moya Greene at Royal Mail, Alison Cooper at Imperial Brands, Liv Garfield at Severn Trent and Véronique Laury at Kingfisher. However, Glaxo’s market capitalisation of £80 billion makes it larger than the other six companies combined. It is more than twice as big as Imperial Brands, the tobacco group, which has a market value of…

Source: The Times September 20, 2016 23:03 UTC