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.

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.

Pfizer has recently grown by mergers, including those with Warner – Lambert ( 2000 ), with Pharmacia ( 2003 ), and with Wyeth ( 2009 ).

Pfizer has hired customs and narcotics experts from all over the globe to track down fakes and assemble evidence that can be used to pursue civil suits for trademark infringement.

Since 2007, Pfizer has spent $ 3. 3 million on investigations and legal fees and recovered about $ 5. 1 million, with another $ 5 million tied up in ongoing cases.

Pfizer has four divisions: Human Health ($ 44. 28B in 2005 sales ), Consumer Healthcare ($ 3. 87B in 2005 sales ), Animal Health ($ 2. 2B in 2005 sales ), and Corporate Groups ( which includes legal, finance, and HR ).

Pfizer also has a licensing deal in place with Aurobindo which grants the former access to a variety of oral solid generic products.

The local economy has benefited from significant investment by Pfizer UK, the British subsidiary of the multinational pharmaceuticals company Pfizer, which has built a research and development centre near Sandwich, employing over 3, 000 people.

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has its European Manufacturing base in Newbridge, with another plant in nearby Newcastle in County Dublin.

The pharmaceutical company Pfizer also has operations located there, which in recent years has caused much controversy due to layoffs.

Pfizer also sponsors the Health and Medical Science Academy at Morristown High School and has an annual 5k race around Morris Plains.

He has been an advisor to Pfizer for more than 50 years.

He has served on the advisory boards of pharmaceutical companies such as Merck and Pfizer.

Recent industrialization has brought to Ascoli several Italian and multinational companies ( YKK, Manuli, Pfizer, Barilla ) but the bulk of the economy is made up of small and medium sized enterprises and by those providing professional services to the area.

Advil is manufactured by Pfizer and has been on the market since 1984.

Pfizer has responded to Public Citizen's concerns with assurances that they are truthfully advertising the risk and benefits of Celebrex as set forth by the FDA.

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.

There has however been some concern since the economic crisis of the last few years as several of the major pharmaceutical companies in Cork have shed jobs, most notably Pfizer which announced the loss of 177 jobs in June 2012.

Since 2005, the " Heinrich Auspitz Preis " has been awarded by the Wyeth and Pfizer Corporation Austria to promote scientific research in the field of dermatology.

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 ".

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

Current members of the board of directors of Pfizer are: Michael S. Brown, M. Anthony Burns, Robert Burt, Don Cornwell, William H. Gray, Frances D. Fergusson, Constance Horner, William R. Howell, Stanley Ikenberry, Ian Read ( chairman ), George Lorch, John P. Mascotte, Dana Mead, Ruth J. Simmons, and William Steere.

In June 2008, Ranbaxy settled the patent dispute with Pfizer allowing them to sell Atorvastatin Calcium, the generic version of Lipitor < sup >( R )</ sup > and Atorvastatin Calcium-Amylodipine Besylate, the generic version of Pfizer's Caduet < sup >( R )</ sup > in the US starting November 30, 2011.

The 2005 list was BP, Delphi, DuPont, ExxonMobil, Ford, Halliburton, KPMG, Roche, Suez, and W. R. Grace ; the 2006 list was Abbott, Altria, BAE, Boeing, FirstEnergy, Kroger, Massey Energy, Pfizer, Smithfield, and Wal-Mart.

On 21 May 2007 Pfizer announced the retirement of Mr. Levin as well as that of R & D Chief John LaMattina.

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.

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.

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

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.