Pfizer.com manufacturers of prescription pharmaceutical products.
Company
Pfizer, Incorporated is the world's largest pharmaceutical company. The company is based in New York City and was founded in 1849. Unlike other companies which branch out into other markets, Pfizer is just pharmaceuticals. However, they make medications for veterinary medicine as well as for human needs.
Products
Key prescription pharmaceutical products manufactured by Pfizer for human use include:
Accupril, Aricept, Aromasin, Bextra, Caduet, Camptosar, Celebrex, Chantix, Depo-Medrol, Depo Provera, Ellence, Eraxis, Exubera, Flagyl, Genotropin, Geodon, Inspra, Lipitor, Macugen, Norvasc, Neurontin, Rebif, Relpax, Rescriptor, Somavert, Sudafed, Sudafed PE, Spiriva HandiHaler, Tikosyn, Vfend, V_iagra, Viracept, Xalatan, X_anax, X_anax XR, Zithromax, Zoloft, Zyrtec, and Zyvox.
Pfizer's prescription pharmaceutical products for veterinary use include:
Bovi-Shield Gold, Dectomax, Draxxin, Excede, Revolution Pet Medicine, Rimadyl, Simplicef, Solitude IGR, Spectramast, Stellamune, and Stronghold.
All of the above product names are registered trademarks of Pfizer Corporation.
Pfizer is a key supplier of pharmaceutical products all over the world. This list will always remain incomplete due to the constantly changing field of medical research, and the shifting factors affecting affordability, availability, and political policies regarding their work in different countries.
History
Pfizer originated as a business named Charles Pfizer and Company, launched by Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhardt in Williamsburg, Brooklyn in 1849. Their first product was an antiparasitic called santonin. Pfizer continued to expand its lab and factory facilities in Brooklyn, and eventually established an administrative headquarter building in Manhattan.
By 1910, Pfizer sales had totaled $3 million and they became the world's experts in the production of medicines such as penicillin. By request from the United States government, they supplied the main source of penicillin, which became known at that time as the "miracle drug", to treat injured Allied soldiers during World War II. Pfizer eventually expanded their operations to Iran, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico and the United Kingdom by the mid-1950s.
Their company's growth has since continued, inventing and distributing various commercial drugs during the 1980s and 1990s. They have also found themselves receiving a huge amount of media attention, due to the high-profile factors of drug research, international drug laws, economics of the drug business, and special-interest causes that rally around some diseases.
Website
Pfizer.com is an unassuming and straight-forward website with various sections detailing their products and services. The main sections are:
- Who we are
- About Pfizer, News, Careers, For Investors
- What we do
- Medicines & Products, Health Resources, Animal Care, Business to Business
- How we help
- Research and Development, Patient Assistance Programs, Caring for Community, Corporate Citizenship
There is also a prescription medicine database, detailing the targeted symptoms and usage of many of their patented products. In many cases, there are simple quizzes in each section which a user can take online to determine if they have the need for that product, and medical resources for physicians to learn about the symptoms to look for in patients.
Global Position
Much controversy has surrounded the pharmaceuticals industry in recent years; medications get attention far out of proportion with what they got a decade ago. Because Pfizer is a global market, they are caught by a uniquely difficult position: They must maintain quality standards in manufacturing medication and researching new alternatives and so they must pay for highly-qualified workers and sterile facilities in the most expensive industrial nations. But their products are also in demand in the poorest third-world countries in the world, where a price that would have been cheap in Europe is unaffordable in South Africa.
Pfizer has gotten a lot of criticism for not doing more to support humanitarian causes. To their credit, the "Corporate Citizenship" section of their website indicates that the company understands what people want, and is struggling to meet that expectation. They mention that they are at the early stages of learning how to do this. One of the difficulties which they address is that one company cannot do it alone; there will be a need for partnerships to make progress on improving global health, and they indicate that this will take cooperation between governments, corporations, academic institutions, and civil society itself.
Business Profile
Pfizer, Incorporated reported revenues of over $48.3 billion in 2006. They employ over 100,000 workers in facilities all over the world, including research and development laboratories in Connecticut, England, Japan, France, California, Massachusetts, Michigan, Michigan, and Missouri. Their Fortune 500 ranking is #31.
Languages
English
Address
- 235 E. 42nd St
- New York NY 10017 US
Contact
- Pfizer Inc. (NYHQ), Domain Registrations
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- +1 212 733 2323, Fax: +1 212 573 7701
Additional Information
Pfizer is moving quickly into genetic-based drug products, with micro and nano technologies.
Related Domains
External Links
- Stock: PFE
- Alexa: Pfizer.com
