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Man behind the organisation. (Dr. M.S. Habib; Wellcome Pakistan Ltd.)(Corporate Profile)...

By Sher, S.Z.
Publication: Economic Review
Date: Monday, July 1 1991

Man Behind the Organisation

The Wellcome Foundation Limited a renowned British pharmaceutical company, was founded on September 27th 1880 by two enterprising American Pharmacists, Silas M. Burroughs and Henry S. Wellcome, who later settled in England. First they imported the products from American pharmaceutical companies and then manufactured under partnership in their own name - Burroughs Wellcome Company. The partnership marked the dawn of a new era for pharmacy in Great Britain. For the first time scientific methods of analysis and quality control in the production of

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