Industry | Pharmaceutical |
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Founded | August 21, 1959Toronto, Ontario, Canada | in
Founder | Louis Lloyd Winter |
Defunct | August 23, 1967 |
Fate | Purchased by Barry Sherman |
Successor | Apotex |
Empire Laboratories was a Canadian pharmaceutical company incorporated on August 21, 1959 as Empire Laboratories Limited by founder Louis Lloyd Winter in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[1] It grew to become the largest pharmaceutical business in Canada during the 1960s, until the death of its founder on November 5, 1965.