of merck & co. industry pharmaceuticals founded 1971 by merger with plough inc. defunct 2009 headquarters kenilworth new jersey key people fred hassan final ceo & chairman revenue us 18.502 billion 2008 net income us 1.903 billion 2008 website www.schering plough.com schering plough corporation was a united states based pharmaceutical company . it was founded in 1851 by ernst christian friedrich schering as schering ag in germany . in 1971 the schering corporation merged with plough founded by memphis area entrepreneur abe plough in 1908 1 to form schering plough . on november 4 2009 merck & co. merged with schering plough with the new company taking the name of merck & co. schering plough manufactured several pharmaceutical drugs the most well known of which were the allergy drugs claritin and clarinex an anti cholesterol drug vytorin and a brain tumor drug temodar . these are now available from merck & co. 2 schering plough also owned and operated the major foot care brand name dr. scholl s and the skin care line coppertone . these also became a part of the new company . 3 as of june 2005 update schering plough had 1.4 % market share in the u.s. placing it seventeenth in the top twenty pharmaceutical corporations by sales compiled by ims health . citation needed schering plough was a full member of the european federation of pharmaceutical industries and associations efpia 4 a membership which is also maintained by the new merck . 5 contents 1 history 1.1 pharmaceuticals and consumer products 1.2 animal health 1.2.1 coopers animal health 1.2.2 intervet 1.2.3 merck animal health msd animal health 1.3 chief executives 2 medical products 2.1 prescription products 2.2 over the counter products 3 veterinary products 4 exercise drug 5 collaborative research 6 controversy 7 references 8 external links history edit pharmaceuticals and consumer products edit schering was founded in 1851 by ernst christian friedrich schering as schering ag in germany . citation needed 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 . these became the schering corporation . the company was placed under a government administratorship until 1952 when it was released and its assets sold to the private sector . citation needed in 1957 schering acquired white laboratories . 6 plough incorporated was founded by the memphis tennessee area entrepreneur abe plough 1892 1984 in 1908 1 . he borrowed 125 from his father to start the business at age sixteen . as a one man business he mixed plough s antiseptic healing oil a sure cure for any ill of man or beast and sold it off a horse drawn buggy . 1 plough s acquisitions included st joseph s aspirin for children 1 maybelline cosmetics and coppertone skin care products . plough also had a broadcasting division operating radio stations in atlanta georgia ; baltimore maryland ; boston massachusetts ; chicago illinois ; and memphis tennessee . 7 in 1971 the schering corporation merged with plough inc. at the time of the merger abe plough became chairman of the combined company . 8 in 2000 schering plough bought a new campus in summit new jersey from novartis . citation needed on march 9 2009 it was announced that schering plough and merck were to merge . on november 4 2009 schering plough merged with merck & co. and through a reverse merger merck became a subsidiary of schering plough which renamed itself merck . 9 10 11 12 animal health edit coopers animal health edit one of schering plough s plants in upper hutt new zealand was the largest single site for the production of veterinary vaccines in the world . citation needed this was primarily because new zealand s isolation has formed a natural quarantine leaving the country free of rabies foot and mouth scrapie bovine spongiform encephalopathy and many other livestock diseases . it formerly had echinococcosis but this has been eradicated . the site was known locally as coopers animal health a trademark which originated in the 1850s with a british company cooper & newphews ; the coopers brand name was still in use by schering plough in australia but not elsewhere . 13 intervet edit on 12 march 2007 schering plough corp. purchased organon international the drug unit of netherlands based akzo nobel for 14.4 billion giving the us pharmaceutical company an array of women s health products and numerous late stage pipelines of experimental medicines . 14 organon itself was founded in 1923 by dr. saal van zwanenberg the president of zwanenberg s slachterijen en fabrieken . the company is housed at zwanenberg s premises in oss the netherlands . 15 by august 21 2008 famvir famciclovir was marketed by schering plough ; formerly it was marketed by novartis . citation needed as a result of the acquisition of organon biosciences schering plough bolstered its animal health business with the akzo nobel subsidiary intervet obtained control of the active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer diosynth and gained access to human vaccine production through the subsidiary nobilon . the three companies comprising organon biosciences were organon diosynth and intervet . 14 homeagain continues to use the intervet name owned by merck . merck animal health msd animal health edit after the merger of schering plough with merck the animal health division was still known as intervet schering plough animal health . 16 a merger of merial and intervet schering plough was planned in 2010 but was abandoned in march 2011 . 17 on june 29 2011 the company announced that the animal health division would now be known as merck animal health in the united states and canada ; it is now called msd animal health elsewhere in the world . 18 chief executives edit name tenure willibald h. conzen 1971 1979 richard j. bennett 1979 january 31 1982 robert p. luciano february 1 1982 december 31 1995 richard j. kogan january 1 1996 april 2003 fred hassan april 2003 november 3 2009 medical products edit prescription products edit bridion sugammadex cerazette desloratadine antihistamine branded neoclarityn esmeron zemuron rocuronium famvir famciclovir for herpes zoster and shingles zoster treatment formerly novartis intron a & peg intron interferon alfa 2b for treatment of hepatitis c levitra vardenafil erectile dysfunction drug ; co marketed with bayer and glaxosmithkline livial tibolone marvelon desogen nasonex and asmanex mometasone furoate noxafil posaconazole nuvaring puregon follistim quazepam doral 19 remeron remeron soltab mirtazapine remicade infliximab suboxone buprenorphine naloxone temodar temozolomide vytorin ezetimibe simvastatin cholesterol lowering combination drug zetia ezetimibe cholesterol lowering drug over the counter products edit afrin a nasal spray decongestant claritin loratadine an antihistamine which has less risk of causing drowsiness correctol a stimulant laxative incorporating dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate and yellow phenolphthalein coricidin a palliative remedy for the common cold targeted towards individuals with high blood pressure coppertone sunscreens bain de soleil suncreen drixoral dr. scholl s line of products zinka colored sunscreen veterinary products edit home again pet recovery system homeagain is an advanced pet identification and retrieval system . zubrin a non steroidal anti inflammatory drug nsaid for the treatment of osteoarthritis in dogs . 20 mometamax is indicated for the treatment of canine acute externa and chronic otitis externa associated with yeast malassezia pachydermatis formerly pityrosporum canis and or bacteria susceptible to gentamicin . it contains the strongest steroid mometasone furoate in veterinary medicine . 21 eclipse vaccines attenuated modified live feline vaccines available in a multitude of antigen combinations . 22 galaxy vaccines canine vaccines available in a multitude of antigen combinations . 23 optimmune ophthalmic ointment ciclosporin for the treatment of pannis and keratoconjunctivitis sicca in dogs . 24 orbax trade name for orbifloxacin a fluoroquinolone . 25 otomax is indicated for the treatment of canine acute otitis externa and chronic otitis externa associated with yeast malassezia pachydermatis formerly pityrosporum canis and or bacteria susceptible to gentamicin . it contains betamethasone valerate as an anti inflammatory . 26 banamine a non steroidal anti inflammatory drug nsaid used in horses cattle and swine in different parts of the world . 27 estrumate a synthetic prostaglandin used in reproduction of cattle . 28 trivetrin trimethoprin sulfate for the treatment of cattle and swine . nuflor florfenicol for treatment of bovine respiratory disease foot rot and control of respiratory disease in cattle at high risk of developing bovine respiratory disease . 29 exercise drug edit schering plough also received much publicity for a drug aicar which mimics the effects of exercise having especially potent effects when used alongside another drug gw1516 developed by glaxosmithkline . citation needed collaborative research edit in addition to internal research and development activities schering plough was also involved in publicly funded collaborative research projects with other industrial and academic partners . one example in the area of non clinical safety assessment was the innomed predtox . 30 31 controversy edit in 2004 schering plough was accused of marketing gimmicks and payoffs to doctors for prescribing the company s pharmaceutical products . 32 schering plough entered into a consent decree with the fda on march 6 2002 due to manufacturing issues with its albuterol inhaler . it was ordered to pay 500 million us dollars to the us treasury . citation needed references edit a b c abe plough 1892 1984 tennessee encyclopedia of history and culture online . merck us prescription products . merck.com . retrieved november 10 2010 . merck consumer products . merck.com . retrieved november 10 2010 . 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