Pharmacia
Sign in to savePharmacia was a pharmaceutical and biotechnological company in Sweden that merged with the American pharmaceutical company Upjohn in 1995.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Pharmacia
- Company.logo
- File:Pharmacia logo.gif
- Company.type
- Aktiebolag
- Company.traded_as
- XSTO: PHAR
- Company.industry
- Pharmaceutical
- Company.location
- Sweden
- Company.fate
- Merged with Upjohn to form Pharmacia & Upjohn
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Pharmacia was a pharmaceutical and biotechnological company in Sweden that merged with the American pharmaceutical company Upjohn in 1995.
==History == Pharmacia was founded in 1911 in Stockholm, Sweden by pharmacist Gustav Felix Grönfeldt at the Elgen Pharmacy. The company was named after the Greek word φαρμακεία, transliterated pharmakeia, which means 'sorcery'. In the company's early days, much of its profits were derived from the "miracle medicine" Phospho-Energon.
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