RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:why?Just for the fun of it, how long it takes to become a major pharmaceutical company?
(OK, I'm not saying I will wait a century, but, from scratch to fully integrated pharma, it takes time according to history :-) )
Glaxo was founded in the 1850s as a general trading company in Bunnythorpe, New Zealand, by a Londoner, Joseph Nathan.[11] In 1904 it began producing dried-milk baby food, first known as Defiance, then as Glaxo, under the slogan "Glaxo builds bonny babies".[12][13] The Glaxo Laboratories sign is still visible (right) on what is now a car repair shop on the main street of Bunnythorpe.
Glaxo Laboratories opened new units in London in 1935. The company bought two companies, Joseph Nathan and Allen & Hanburys in 1947 and 1958 respectively.
Pfizer is named after German-American cousins Charles Pfizer and Charles F. Erhart (originally from Ludwigsburg, Germany) who launched a chemicals business, Charles Pfizer and Company, from a building at the intersection of Harrison Avenue and Bartlett Street[11] in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in 1849. There, they produced an antiparasitic called santonin. This was an immediate success, although it was the production of citric acid that really kick-started Pfizer's growth in the 1880s. Pfizer continued to buy property to expand its lab and factory on the block bounded by Bartlett Street; Harrison Avenue; Gerry Street; and Flushing Avenue. Pfizer's original administrative headquarters was at 81 Maiden Lane in Manhattan.[11]