Stiefel Laboratories
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| Industry | Pharmaceuticals |
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| Founded | Germany (1847) |
| Headquarters |
20 TW Alexander Drive Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709, USA |
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Key people
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Simon Jose, President |
| Parent | GlaxoSmithKline |
| Website | www |
Stiefel Laboratories is a global dermatological pharmaceutical company, with its global headquarters in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. It makes products such as Duac and Oilatum. Stiefel was acquired by GlaxoSmithKline at a price of $2.9 billion. The company was founded in 1847 by John David Stiefel, Ferdinand von Hebra and Paul Unna, who initially created medicated soaps.
The company's origins lie in the J.D. Stiefel Company which was established in 1847, in Germany, by John David Stiefel; its first products were candles but the company began making medicated soaps within several years of its founding. In the 1880s, the company began worldwide export of its products.
The company's products were brought to the United States for the first time by August C. Stiefel, the grandson of J.D. Stiefel (the founder), in 1910 and named the company Stiefel Medicinal Soap Co., Inc.
By 1914, Stiefel produced 103 different toilet, perfumed, and medicinal soaps and were packaged in seven different languages.
One of J.D. Stiefel Company’s original products in the 1920s, was called Stiefel Freckle Soap. In early advertisements, Freckle Soap claimed to wash “freckles and unsightly tan” away. At this time, soaps were packaged in tins to prolong the product’s shelf life.
In 1947 the business was resurrected, and registered in the State of New York under the name the Stiefel Medicinal Soap Company, Inc., initially operating from a former creamery in Oak Hill, New York. As the product line grew and diversified beyond medicinal soaps, the company was renamed Stiefel Laboratories, Inc.
In 1948, the Stiefel Medicinal Soap Company worked with dermatologists to develop the Oilatum family of products, which treat dry skin and atopic dermatitis.
In 1959, Zeasorb has the ability to absorb six times its weight in moisture. Stiefel developed Zeasorb products with dermatologists, who identified the need for such a powder.
Introduced in 1960, Polytar first featured the combination of tars in a shampoo.
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