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Market Cap:$147.2B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$48.4B
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Taking care of you and your four-legged friends too! Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE), based in New York, NY, discovers, develops, manufactures and sells prescription medications for humans and animals. Employing about 115,000 people, this $51.3 billion company operates in three segments: Human Health, Consumer Healthcare and Animal Health. Together, these segments cover treatments for diseases such as cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, medications for oral care, tobacco dependence, and products for prevention and treatment of diseases in livestock and pets.
Number of Employees 81,800
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing: 325412
Recent Events
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Can Roche Leave Genentech Alone?
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Pfizer PFE Will Not Renew Ethical Distribution Agreement Term with MWI Veterinary Supply MWIV
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Pfizer Inc. and Wyeth; Analysis of Agreement Containing Consent Order To Aid Public Comment and...
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A 2nd Loss for Pfizer in Drug Suits
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Pfizer acquires stem cell therapies assets of Axordia
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Standpoint Raised Its FY10 Price Target on Pfizer PFE to $24
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ImmunoVaccine signs exclusive licence deal with Pfizer
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Pfizer Animal Health selects Bader Rutter as agency of record
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FDA panel backs Pfizer's anti-infection vaccine for kids
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Cash Just Kept On Piling Up, But It Looks Like The Spending Has Started
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Goldman Sachs Said Pfizer PFE Best Positioned US Pharma in China
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EDITORIAL: Difficult mix of business, science
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$75M verdict unsealed in Prempro-cancer case
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Sanofi-Aventis on hunt for Boston partners
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Pfizer says in partnership deal with BMP in China
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Pfizer Inc. PFE Says in Partnership Deal with BMP Sunstone in China
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Still Enjoying Those Acquisitions, Pfizer?
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Status Of Pfizer And Wyeth Research Facilities
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Monsanto MON Agrees to Acquire Pfizer's PFE Chesterfield Village Research Center for $435M
News & Analysis
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Pfizer Increases R&D Commitment in China
ChinaBio Today submits: Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) will expand its China R&D operations by adding facilities in central and western China, according to a Reuters story. The company will build a new clinical R&D center in Wuhan, which will support global clinical drug programs, including Phase I-IV clinical trials. Pfizer...
Pfizer's People Aren't to Blame
Derek Lowe submits: I wanted to highlight a comment that showed up recently in the latest Pfizer PFE post: I would just like to point out that there is often mention of Pfizer as being a poorly productive R&D outfit on this blog, but there is...
Auxilium Inches Toward FDA Approval for Xiaflex
Zacks.com submits: Auxilium Pharma AUXL is currently awaiting a decision from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on its key pipeline candidate, Xiaflex, which is under FDA review for the treatment of Dupuytren’s Contracture. In September, Auxilium received a major boost in the form of a favorable...
Which Pfizer / Wyeth Sites Will Shut Down?
Derek Lowe submits: I have no solid information on this question myself, but Eric Milgram over at Pharmaconduct is trying a wisdom-of-crowds approach. He's got a survey up of which sites people think will close, and it'll be interesting to see how well this matches up with the eventual...
Big Pharma's Future Death Spiral?
Derek Lowe submits: One of this blog's regular correspondents has just been attending a chemistry outsourcing conference program here, and heard a very interesting talk from Stefan Loren of a Baltimore investment advisory firm, Westwicke Partners. Loren's a product of the Sharpless lab, who went on to Abbott ABT,...
Pfizer Whistle-Blowing: The How and Why
Derek Lowe submits: Here's more detail on the case that led to Pfizer's PFE 2.3 billion dollar fine/settlement, courtesy of Bloomberg. Here's how things got started, apparently: Pfizer Inc. sales folks had one tough customer in psychiatrist Stefan Kruszewski. He didn’t buy their pitch to prescribe...
Justice Department Makes 2.3 Billion Dollar Example of Pfizer's Marketing Practices
Derek Lowe submits: No sooner do I write another post about pharma marketing than Pfizer PFE finds itself paying 3.2 billion dollars in fines for doing it improperly. 1.2 billion of that is a criminal penalty, and needless to say, they've set the current record. The...
FDA Calendar Updates: Medivation, Pfizer, AstraZeneca
Mike Havrilla submits: Below is a summary of updates to the BioMedReports.com FDA Calendar, which includes a database of 288 entries as of 7/30/09. The calendar was originally created by Mike Havrilla to track companies with pending new drug, biological agent, or medical device new product decisions at the FDA....
Pfizer Underwrites Basic Research at Shanghai Institutes
ChinaBio Today submits: Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) has teamed up with the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences (SIBS) to do basic research. The biggest of pharmas will underwrite $500,000 of health-related basic research projects at SIBS for each of the next three years. Pfizer and SIBS will select the research...
Pfizer's Compound Screen Doesn't Look Like a Great Moneymaker
Derek Lowe submits: I've heard that Pfizer PFE is doing something unusual with its proprietary compound collection: they're offering to let other people screen it. Now, that's quite a step. Most companies guard their compounds pretty closely, considering them to be key assets. But I'm told...
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