Pharmacia
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Pharmacia, founded in 1911, was originally a government-owned Swedish pharmaceutical company. Sold to private interests in the 1990s, it was first merged with the American pharmaceutical company Upjohn and headquartered in London. The merged company Pharmacia & Upjohn was there after bought by the American bioindustry and medical company Monsanto. The resulting conglomerate took the name of Pharmacia Inc and spun off its agricultural chemical division under the name Monsanto.
In 2003 Pharmacia was bought by Pfizer Inc., and the name Pharmacia was dropped.
In 2004, the allergy-diagnostic division of legacy Pharmacia was sold off as Pharmacia Diagnositics. In Jaunary 16, 2006, Pharmacia Diagnoistics announced that its name is changed to Phadia, which has totally ended the use of the Pharmacia trademark-- although some of Pfizer's drugs remain to be in Pharmacia livery.
External links
- [Pfizer report of acquisition]
- [Pharmacia Diagnostics]
- [Pharmacia Diagnoistics' press release of renaming into Phadia]
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