The Warner-Lambert Corporation was a US company manufacturing a large number products as diverse as pharmaceuticals to candy. In the year 2000 the giant pharmaceutical company Pfizer, Inc acquired Warner-Lambert.
Warner-Lambert can trace its roots back to 1856 when a pharmacist from Philadelphia, William Warner, created for the first time a sugar-coated pill. The company was purchased in 1908 by Gutavus A. Pfeiffer and Company, which was a distributer of patent-medicine based in St. Louis. Pfeiffer decided to maintain the original name of Warner. In 1920 the company was incorporated under the name William R. Warner and Company, Inc. and went on to buy a number of additional companies including the Hudnut and Du Barry cosmetics companies.
During the following 30 years Warner-Lambert bought a series of companies including Lambert Pharmacal (Listerine), Emerson Drug (Bromo-Seltzer), American Chicle (Chiclets chewing gum), Smith Brothers (cough drops), and Parke-Davis (prescription drugs). Before the merger with Pfizer over 50 percent of their sales came from pharmaceuticals, hospital supplies, and nonprescription drugs and other health care products.
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