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Upjohn Company

 Organization

Biography

W. E. and Henry Upjohn established the Upjohn Pill & Granule Company in 1886. The name changed to Upjohn Company in 1902. Upjohn merged with Pharmacia AB in November 1995, becoming Pharmacia & Upjohn. In April 2000 Pharmacia and Upjohn merged with Monsanto and Searle, becoming Pharmacia Corp. In 2002 Pfizer Inc. announced plans to buy Pharmacia and they took over April 16, 2003, now known as Pfizer Inc.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Pfizer Inc. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RH-A-3149
Scope and Contents This collection documents the history and the operations of the Upjohn Company. The collection consists of manufacturing records produced from the tablets, pills and special formulas departments as well as individual researchers; full financial statements from 1901-1933 as well as a full run of annual reports from 1945-1986; real estate files; advertising and publicity as well as marketing and sales files; complete runs of Upjohn News, Scope, and The Overflow; company appraisals; and a...
Dates: 1875-2001