Pfizer's Acquisition of Wyeth

Case Code: BSTR342
Case Length: 19 Pages
Period: 2008-2009
Pub Date: 2009
Teaching Note: Not Available

Price: Rs.300
Organization: Pfizer, Wyeth
Industry: Pharmaceuticals
Countries: US
Themes: Mergers and Acquisitions

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Background Note

PFIZER
Pfizer's roots date back to 1849 when German-American cousins Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhardt founded Charles Pfizer and Company (CPC), a fine chemicals business, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Production of citric acid contributed to CPC's growth through the 1880s...

WYETH
Wyeth was founded in 1860 by John Wyeth (John) and his brother Frank Wyeth when they opened a retail drugstore, John Wyeth & Brother (JWB), with a research lab in Philadelphia, US. In 1862, they started manufacturing large quantities of medicines commonly ordered by doctors...

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