Bunnythorpe, New Zealand

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Bunnythorpe is a village in the Manawatu district in the North Island of New Zealand, about 10 km from the major city Palmerston North. Most of the surrounding district is in dairy farms and there is a large electrical substation nearby.

The village is the birthplace of Glaxo, originally a baby food manufacturer processing local milk into an early baby food named Glaxo, which was sold in the 1930s under the slogan "Glaxo builds bonny babies". Still visible on the main street of Bunnythorpe is a derelict dairy factory (factory for drying and processing cows' milk into powder) with the original Glaxo logo clearly visible, but nothing to indicate that this was the start of a major multinational.

The Glaxo company went on to become a major pharmaceutical manufacturer and after a series of mergers in 2005 is now part of GlaxoSmithKline.

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