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19 unusual facts about Pfizer


Automatic identification and data capture

The global association Auto-ID Center was founded in 1999 and is made up of 100 of the largest companies in the world such as Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Gillette, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, UPS, companies working in the sector of technology such as SAP, Aliens, Sun as well as five academic research centers.

BurnsGroupNYC

He and his team have been responsible for building brands across a wide spectrum of marketing segments and clients such as General Mills, Procter & Gamble, Kodak, Campbell Soup, Gorton's of Gloucester, Post, Pfizer, and Beck's Brewery.

Caledonia Consulting

Also at Caledonia was another member of the SPBE, Lynda Gauld a former lobbyist for Pfizer.

Do As I Say

Michael Moore, staunch anti-capitalist is shown to have significant investments in the stock market, including stock in companies like Halliburton, Pfizer, Merck, and "other companies he vilifies in his films".

East Kent College

East Kent College has close links with local companies such as Kent International Airport, Pfizer in Sandwich, P&O Ferries and Thorley Taverns (pubs, hotels and hospitality).

Energizer Holdings

In 2003 under the leadership of then Chief Executive Officer J. Patrick Mulcahy, Energizer Holdings started expanding into the personal care product sector by buying razor brands Schick and Wilkinson Sword from Pfizer.

Female sexual arousal disorder

Furthermore, the author Edward O. Laumann turned out to have financial ties to Pfizer, creator of Viagra.

Immaculate Flight

According to an interview with President/Owner Brett Logan, current and former clientele have included a diverse range of local General Aviation flyers, corporate flight departments including executives from Pfizer and SAP, as well as royal family members of Middle Eastern kingdoms.

Jean Leguay

(It is now merged with Pfizer.) Later he became president of Substantia Laboratories in Paris.

Morris Plains, New Jersey

The borough has been a major base of operations for Pfizer, previously the headquarters for Warner-Lambert.

Nat Mayer Shapiro

Nat Mayer Shapiro’s works of art can be found in numerous private art collections throughout the world, and are included in the permanent art collections of the Ministry of Culture (Fonds National d'Art Contemporain—FNAC), Paris, France, The Art Gallery of the Queensborough Community College, Queens, NY and Pfizer Inc.

Norman Ramírez Rivera

As a professional, Ramírez worked in sales for 23 years, with Parke-Davis, Warner–Lambert, and Pfizer.

Pop-up maps

The Unfolds Pop-Up format was licensed in custom formats by clients such as Walt Disney Company, Warner Brothers, Museum of Modern Art, Rand McNally, National Park Service, Bertelsmann, TED (conference), BMW, Pfizer, Marvel Entertainment, MTV Books and Berlitz Corporation among others.

Raymond Ameijide

Ameijide served as an illustrator a variety of clients, including Fortune, National Geographic, IBM, Pfizer, TV Guide, Chase Manhattan, Discover, Harcourt Brace and the United States Post Office (per his obituary January 12, 2000, TheJournalNews.com).

Robbie Buhl

Family holdings included Buhl Stamping, Buhl Aircraft manufacturing, development of vast real estate holdings (including the landmark Buhl Building in downtown Detroit), Parke Davis (now part of drug giant Pfizer), Copper and Brass Sales, Inc, (by marriage) and many other holdings.

Roccal-D

Roccal-D is a disinfectant manufactured by Pfizer that is used in many animal care facilities and some biological laboratories.

Structural Genomics Consortium

The SGC is supported by funding from the Wellcome Trust, GSK, Novartis, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, Takeda, Abbott, Life Technologies, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Genome Canada, the Ontario's Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation (MEDI).

TRIPS Agreement

In turn, the United States strategy of linking trade policy to intellectual property standards can be traced back to the entrepreneurship of senior management at Pfizer in the early 1980s, who mobilized corporations in the United States and made maximizing intellectual property privileges the number one priority of trade policy in the United States (Braithwaite and Drahos, 2000, Chapter 7).

Worldwide Partners

WPI currently has over 20 clients being serviced worldwide by partner agencies, including Avon, Caterpillar, Columbia Sportswear, Adobe, Guardian Industries, Wal-Mart, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Pfizer, Group Santander and Novartis.


AMRI Global

AMRI has announced deals and collaborations with such companies as Pfizer Inc., Merck & Co., Eli Lilly and Co., Takeda, Genentech, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

Andrew L. Shapiro

GreenOrder, founded in 2000, is recognized for its groundbreaking work with GE, DuPont, General Motors, JPMorgan Chase, Pfizer and Polo Ralph Lauren, among others.

Bruce Roth

After receiving his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Iowa State University in 1981, he spent a year as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Rochester, then joined Parke-Davis of Warner-Lambert Company as a Medicinal Chemist in 1982.

Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise

Companies and organizations such as General Electric, IBM, The International Finance Corporation, Pfizer and Shell Hydrogen have partnered with the Center to sponsor projects conducted by teams of students under the guidance of faculty.

Cerlapirdine

Cerlapirdine (USAN; SAM-531, WAY-262,531, PF-05212365) is a drug which is under development by Wyeth/Pfizer for the treatment of cognitive disorders associated with Alzheimer's disease and schizophrenia.

Chuck Hardwick

Charles Leighton Hardwick (born November 8, 1941 in Pulaski County, Kentucky) is a former state legislator in New Jersey, and a former Senior Vice President at Pfizer.

Fons Trompenaars

In 1989 together with Charles Hampden-Turner he founded and directed the consultancy firm Centre for International Business Studies, working for such companies as BP, Philips, IBM, Heineken, AMD, Mars, Motorola, General Motors, Merrill Lynch, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, ABN AMRO, ING, PepsiCo, Honeywell.

Gladys Lounsbury Hobby

In 1959, Hobby left Pfizer to specialized in chronic infectious diseases as chief of research at the Veterans Administration Hospital in East Orange, New Jersey.

Guayama, Puerto Rico

Guayama is home to various pharmaceutical and manufacturing companies like; Pfizer, Baxter, Eli Lilly, and Tapi.

Ian Read

On December 6, 2010 Pfizer's CEO Jeffrey Kindler resigned and it was announced that Ian Read would replace him.

Interferon beta 1a

Interferon beta 1a is sold under the trade names Avonex (Biogen Idec) and Rebif (Merck Serono), (Pfizer); CinnoVex (CinnaGen) is biosimilar.

Jeff Kindler

He rose to become President of Partner Brands (including Boston Market and Chipotle Mexican Grill) for McDonald's until 2002, when he moved to Pfizer to serve as General Counsel.

Jeffery W. Kelly

Kelly has cofounded three biotechnology companies, FoldRx Pharmaceuticals (with Susan Lindquist), now owned by Pfizer, Proteostasis Therapeutics, Inc. (with Andrew Dillin and Richard Morimoto) (a private corporation) and Misfolding Diagnostics (with Xin Jiang and Justin Chapman; a private corporation).

Listerine

In a January 6, 2005, decision, Judge Denny Chin of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that an advertising campaign by Pfizer, claiming that the mouthwash Listerine is as effective as flossing in fighting tooth and gum decay, is false and misleading and poses a public health risk.

McKinnell

Henry McKinnell (born 1943), the former chief executive officer and former chairman of the board of directors of Pfizer Inc

Medical Education for South African Blacks

Major contributors included Peter Bing, Peter Kovler, George Soros, David Tabatznik Bristol-Myers Squibb, Coca-Cola Co., Ford Motor Company, Henry Schein Inc., Hewlett Packard, Johnson & Johnson, Kaiser Permanente, Kellogg Foundation, Levi Strauss & Co., Pfizer, the Starr Foundation, and USAID, among many others.

Oxamniquine

In 1979, Pfizer at Sandwich was presented with the Queen's Award for Technological Achievement in recognition of the outstanding contribution made to tropical medicine by MANSIL (oxamniquine).

Rifat Atun

He has led research and consultancy projects for organizations such as Pfizer Inc., the Vodafone Group, Hofmann La Roche, PA Consulting and Tata Consulting Services.

Shiley

Donald Shiley, one of the co-inventors of Pfizer's Bjork-Shiley heart valve

Steven Nissen

The lipoprotein enhanced the ability of HDL, or “good” cholesterol to usher fat out of the arteries and into the liver for excretion leading to the purchase of Esperion Therapeutics, the tiny company that had produced recombinant Apo-A1 Milano, by Pfizer for $1.3 billion.

Thomas Barraga

Initially working in the private sector, Barraga held positions with the American Can Company, Dun and Bradstreet, and Pfizer.

Transthyretin-related hereditary amyloidosis

In late 2011, the European Medicines Agency approved the transthyretin kinetic stabilizer Tafamidis or Vyndaqel discovered by Jeffery W. Kelly and developed by FoldRx pharmaceuticals (acquired by Pfizer in 2010) for the treatment of FAP based on clinical trial data.