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Company type | Public |
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Industry | |
Founded | 1849New York City | in
Founders | |
Headquarters | The Spiral, New York City , US |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Albert Bourla (Chairman and CEO) |
Products | |
Revenue | US$58.5 billion (2023) |
$2.17 billion (2023) | |
$2.12 billion (2023) | |
Total assets | $226.5 billion (2023) |
Total equity | $89.01 billion (2023) |
Number of employees | c. 88,000 (2023) |
Website | www |
Footnotes / references [1][2] |
Pfizer Inc. (/ˈfaɪzər/ FY-zər)[3] is an American multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation headquartered at The Spiral in Manhattan, New York City. The company was established in 1849, in New York by two German entrepreneurs, Charles Pfizer (1824–1906) and his cousin Charles F. Erhart (1821–1891).
Pfizer develops and produces medicines and vaccines for immunology, oncology, cardiology, endocrinology, and neurology. The company's largest products by sales are the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine ($11 billion in 2023 revenues), apixaban ($6 billion in 2023 revenues), a pneumococcal conjugate vaccine ($6 billion in 2023 revenues), palbociclib ($4 billion in 2023 revenues), and tafamidis ($3 billion in 2023 revenues).[1] In 2023, 46% of the company's revenues came from the United States, 6% came from Japan, and 48% came from other countries.[1]
As of 2024, the company ranks 69th on the Fortune 500.[4]