Pfizer Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation. German immigrant cousins Charles Pfizer and Charles F. Erhart founded it in 1849 in Brooklyn, New York as a fine chemicals business, and it grew into one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, developing vaccines and medicines including, with the German firm BioNTech, one of the first widely distributed COVID-19 vaccines. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Company TypeMultinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation 1 Founded Year HeadquartersNew York City, New York, U.S. 1 Connections
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Pfizer Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation.
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Founded in 1849 in New York by German entrepreneurs Charles Pfizer and Charles F. Erhart, Pfizer is one of the oldest pharmaceutical companies in North America.
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Pfizer was founded in 1849 in Brooklyn, New York by German immigrant cousins Charles Pfizer and Charles F. Erhart as a fine chemicals business. It grew into one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies, developing vaccines and medicines including, with the German firm BioNTech, one of the first widely distributed COVID-19 vaccines.
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