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List of pharmaceutical laboratories by year of foundation

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The following is a table with laboratories organized by year of creation.

18th century

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Year Laboratory Founder Present
1715 Allen & Hanburys Silvanus Bevan Absorbed by Glaxo Laboratories in 1958.[1]

19th century

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Year Laboratory Founder Present
1830 Smith, Kline & Co John K. Smith Became Smith, Kline & French
1844 French, Richard and Company Clayton French and William Richard In 1921 was bought by Smith, Kline & Co to form Smith, Kline & French
1848 Beecham Group Thomas Beecham Merged with Smith, Kline & Co to form SmithKline Beecham
1849 Pfizer Charles Pfizer and Charles F. Erhart Active
1876 Eli Lilly and Company Eli Lilly Active
1880 Wellcome Henry Wellcome and Silas Burroughs In 1995 merged with Glaxo to form Glaxo Wellcome
1895 Sandoz Alfred Kern and Edouard Sandoz In 1996 merged with Ciba-Geigy to form Novartis

20th century

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Year Laboratory Founder Present
1913 Astra AB Merged with Zeneca in 1999 to form AstraZeneca
1924 Glaxo Laboratories Joseph Nathan and Co Merged in 1995 with Wellcome to form Glaxo Wellcome
1945 Recherche et Industrie Thérapeutiques Pieter De Somer Bought by Smith, Kline & French, currently GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals
1946 Grünenthal GmbH Hermann Wirtz, Sr Active
1950 Allergan, Inc. Gavin S. Herbert Bought by SmithKline Beckman in 1980
1959 Valeant Pharmaceuticals Milan Panić Its original name was ICN Pharmaceuticals
1976 Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Assia and Zori Active
1982 SmithKline Beckman SmithKline & French Merge between SmithKline & French and Beckman Inc.
1993 Zeneca Merger of the pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals businesses of Imperial Chemical Industries Merged With Astra AB to form AstraZeneca
1996 Novartis Merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz Active
1999 AstraZeneca Merger Astra AB and Zeneca Active

21st century

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Year Laboratory Founder Present
2013 Calico Bill Maris | Active

See also

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References

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  1. ^ For J. G. Bevan see Edward H. Milligan The Biographical dictionary of British Quakers in commerce and industry, 1775–1920 Sessions of York (2007) ISBN 978-1-85072-367-7, p. 47 and ODNB article by David J. Hall, 'Bevan, Joseph Gurney (1753–1814)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [1], accessed 14 January 2009.