Major U. S. companies operating in the country include ACS, CMS Energy, Coca Cola, S. C. Johnson, Ralston Purina, Star-Kist, A. H. Robins, Sterling, Pfizer, IBM, 3M, Motorola, Stewart & Stevenson, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and National Cash Register ( NCR ).

In April 2011 Pfizer agreed to sell its Capsugel unit, the world's largest maker of hard capsules, for about $ 2. 38 billion to the private equity firm KKR & Co.

On June 26, 2006, Pfizer announced that it would sell its Consumer Healthcare unit ( manufacturer of Listerine, Nicorette, Visine, Sudafed and Neosporin ) to Johnson & Johnson for $ 16. 6 billion.

In 2007, Pfizer invested $ 8. 1 billion in research and development, the largest R & D investment in the pharmaceutical industry.

Pfizer has R & D facilities in the following locations:

These include AT & T, Honeywell, Colgate-Palmolive, Pfizer, ExxonMobil, Novartis, BASF, Verizon, Bayer and Wyeth.

DC Comics, Deloitte, Duane Reade, Estée Lauder Companies, Foot Locker, Frederator Studios, JPMorgan Chase, Hess Corporation, Kroll Inc., L-3 Communications, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Marvel Entertainment, McGraw-Hill, MetLife, MidOcean Partners, Morgan Stanley, NBC Universal, The New York Times Company, NexCen Brands, Pfizer, Polo Ralph Lauren, Saks Incorporated ( Saks Fifth Avenue ), The Sharper Image, Simon & Schuster, Six Flags, TBWA Worldwide, Thomson Reuters, Time Warner, Time Warner Cable, Univision Communications, and Viacom.

With the presence of some 20 multinationals such as Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Aventis, and Bristol-Myers Squibb, Montreal ranks eighth in North America for the number of jobs in the pharmaceutical sector.

Also, in 1998 alone, a total of 94 corporations faced a net liability of less than half the full 35 % corporate tax rate and the corporations Lyondell Chemical, Texaco, Chevron, CSX, Tosco, PepsiCo, Owens & Minor, Pfizer, JP Morgan, Saks, Goodyear, Ryder, Enron, Colgate-Palmolive, Worldcom, Eaton, Weyerhaeuser, General Motors, El Paso Energy, Westpoint Stevens, MedPartners, Phillips Petroleum, McKesson and Northrup Grumman all had net negative tax liabilities.

On September 2, 2009, the United States Department of Justice fined Pfizer $ 2. 3 billion after one of its subsidiaries, Pharmacia & UpJohn Company, pled guilty to marketing four drugs including Bextra " with the intent to defraud or mislead.

In 1963, Pfizer introduced a deactivated measles vaccine, and Merck & Co introduced an attenuated measles vaccine.

He is also a director of J. P. Morgan Chase & Co., Prudential Financial Inc., Rockwell International Corporation, Visteon Corporation and Pfizer.

In the 1990s Lynn served the Board on Science, Technology, & Economic Policy as well as on the boards of Pfizer and TRW.

Every major company selling the drugs — Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson — has either settled recent government cases, under the False Claims Act, for hundreds of millions of dollars or is currently under investigation for possible health care fraud.

Major international firms such as Pfizer, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline and Janssen Pharmaceutica ( a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson ) are significant employers in the region.

Trout has worked with a number of different client companies, including " AT & T, Apple, Citicorp, General Electric, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Pfizer, Proctor & Gamble, Southwest Airlines and Xerox ".

Before being acquired by Johnson & Johnson in 2006, Sudafed was owned by Pfizer.

* Henry McKinnell, Jr., Ph. D. – Chairman & CEO Pfizer Inc

The Unisom brand was acquired by Johnson & Johnson in 2006 from Pfizer Consumer Healthcare.

* Pfizer Public Health & Government Group for public health television and Internet programming

George Brecht ( August 27, 1926 – December 5, 2008 ), born George Ellis MacDiarmid, was an American conceptual artist and avant-garde composer as well as a professional chemist who worked as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil Oil.

After working briefly for Charles Pfizer & Co as a quality control inspector, he took a job as a research chemist for Johnson & Johnson in 1953, settling in New Jersey.

In 2007, Pfizer announced plans to close or sell on the Loughbeg API facility, located at Loughbeg, Ringaskiddy Co. Cork Ireland by mid to end of 2008.

Raptakos, Brett and Co., Pfizer Ltd., Cadbury Fry ( India ) Ltd. which produce modified milk food and high protein food are some of the large and medium companies in the district.

Charles Pfizer ( March 22, 1824 in Ludwigsburg as Karl Pfizer – October 19, 1906 ) was a German chemist who immigrated to the United States in the early 1840s and founded the Pfizer Inc. pharmaceutical company in 1849 as Charles Pfizer & Co.

* Pfizer & Co., Inc., ( 1970 ).

IAVI ’ s donors include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Broadway Cares / Equity Fights AIDS, the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, the Glickenhaus Foundation, the James B. Pendleton Charitable Trust, the Starr Foundation, the William & Mae Salcone Charitable Trust, and the William Randolph Hearst Foundation ; the governments of Denmark, Ireland, Japan, the Netherlands, New York City, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Basque Autonomous Government ; multilateral organizations such as the OPEC Fund for International Development and the World Bank ; corporate donors including Advanced Electronic Solutions, BD ( Becton, Dickinson & Co .), Bristol-Myers Squibb, Carlsberg Group, Canon Business Solutions, Continental Airlines, the EMMES Corporation, Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline, Google Inc., Institut Merieux, Pfizer Inc, UNIT4 Business Software, White & Case LLP, VWR, Ziff Brothers Investments and Zwiser Leven ; and many individuals from around the world.

In the Bextra case, the government also charged Pfizer with illegally marketing another antipsychotic, Geodon.

Companies such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, PayPal, Yahoo !, Facebook, Twitter and Pfizer now have European headquarters and / or operational bases in the city.

* Mikael Dolsten M. D., Ph. D. ( 1959 -), President of Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development, Adjunct Professor of Immunology at the Medical Faculty in Lund

Pfizer Pharmaceuticals had been selling the brand name Legatrin for this purpose.

Examples of major manufacturers in North America include General Motors Corporation, General Electric, and Pfizer.

The pharmaceutical company Pfizer was founded in Brooklyn in 1869 and had a manufacturing plant in the borough for many years that once employed thousands of workers, but the plant shut down in 2008.

Phenytoin sodium has been marketed as Phenytek by Mylan Laboratories, previously Bertek Pharmaceuticals, and Dilantin ; Australia also Dilantin Kapseals and Dilantin Infatabs in the USA, Eptoin by Abbott Group in India and as Epanutin in the UK and Israel, by Parke-Davis, now part of Pfizer.

The Pfizer drug company acquired the prototype from the university, along with rights to manufacture it.

Pfizer then began making copies of the prototype, calling it the " 200FS " ( FS meaning Fast Scan ), which were selling as fast as they could make them.

Pfizer, Inc. () is an American multinational pharmaceutical corporation headquartered in New York City, and with its research headquarters in Groton, Connecticut, United States.

Pfizer develops and produces medicines and vaccines for a wide range of conditions including in the areas of immunology and inflammation, oncology, cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, neuroscience and pain.

Pfizer was founded by cousins Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhart in New York City in 1849 as a manufacturer of fine chemicals.

Pfizer has made numerous acquisitions, including of Warner – Lambert in 2000, Pharmacia in 2003 and Wyeth in 2009, the latter acquired for US $ 68 billion.

In September 2009, Pfizer pleaded guilty to the illegal marketing of the arthritis drug Bextra for uses unapproved by the FDA, and agreed to a $ 2. 3 billion settlement, the largest health care fraud settlement at that time.