is a
Pharmaceutical company which traces its history back to 1851 when
Ernst Schering founded
Schering AG in
Germany . 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 Schering Corporation. The company was placed under a government administratorship until
1952 , when it was released and its assets sold to the private sector. In 1971, the Schering Corporation merged with
Plough to form '''Schering Plough'''.
Today manufactures several pharmaceutical
Drugs , the most well-known of which are the
Allergy drugs
Claritin and
Clarinex , and through a collaboration with
Merck & Co. ,
Zetia , an anti-
Cholesterol drug.
also owns and operates the major
Foot care brand name '''
Dr. Scholl's ''' and the
Skin care line '''
Coppertone '''.
As of June 2005, Schering Plough has 1.4% market share in the U.S., placing it at #17 in the top 20 pharmaceutical corporations by sales compiled by
IMS Health .
One of their plants, in
Upper Hutt, New Zealand is the largest single site for the production of veterinary
Vaccines in the world. This is largely due to the fact that
New Zealand 's isolation has formed a natural
Quarantine and is 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 is known locally as "Coopers Animal Health," a trademark still in use by Schering Plough in Australia, but not elsewhere.
Schering Plough was named one of the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers in 2004 and 2005 by Working Mothers magazine.
