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Schering Plough
Schering-Plough Corporation is a pharmaceutical company started in Germany by Ernst Schering in 1851. The company was originally a U.S. subsidiary of Schering AG but following the entry of the United States into World War II in 1941 U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ordered Schering AG 's U.S. assets be seized, The company was placed under a government administratorship until 1952 when it was released and its assets sold to the private sector. In 1971 Schering Corporation merged with Plough, Inc. to form Schering Plough.
Today Schering Plough manufactures several pharmaceutical drugs, the most well-known of which are the allergy drugs Claritin and Clarinex, and through a collaboration with Merck & Co., Zetia, an anti-cholesterol drug.
Schering Plough also owns and operates the major foot care brand name Dr. Scholl's and the skin care line Coppertone.
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Merged
A large multi-national drug company, with interests in medical and vetinarian pharmacuticals.
One of their plants, in Upper Hutt, New Zealand is the largest single site for the production of veterinary vaccines in the world. This is largely due to the fact that New Zealand's isolation has formed a natural quarantine and is free of rabies, foot and mouth, scrapie, bovine_spongiform_encephalopathy and many other livestock diseases. It formerly had echinococcosis, but this has been erradicated.
Products
- Claritin (loratadine) - Active ingredient: is an antihistamine
- Zetia (ezetimibe) - Cholesterol lowering drug
- Vytorin (ezetimibe/simvastatin) - Cholesterol lowering combination drug
Diversity
Schering Plough was named one of the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers in 2004 by Working Mothers magazine.
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