A researchbased global pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc PFE was founded as a chemical products firm in 1849 by Charles Pfizer and Charles Earhart The company grew rapidly during the Civil War providing cream of tartar tartaric acid iodine chloroform and camphor to Union forces After perfecting the fermentation of citric acid from imported lemon and lime concentrates in the early 1880s Pfizer expanded to Chicago in 1882 During the 20th century the company grew both internally and via acquisition

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Pfizer was founded in 1849 by two recent German immigrants to the USA Charles Pfizer and Charles Erhart Both in their midtwenties the two men set up what was initially a fine chemicals business in a B... View the full answer