Burroughs Wellcome Ltd
Other Business Names:
- Burroughs, Silas
- Burroughs, S M, & Co
- Wellcome, Henry
- Burroughs Wellcome & Co
- Tabloid
- Wellcome Foundation Ltd
- Wellcome Trust
- Wellcome Plc
- Glaxo Wellcome Plc
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Dartford, Kent, Kent, South East, England
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
- Wandsworth, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
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Chemical production
Pharmaceutical production & research
Notes:
Traced origins to Silas Burroughs, d1895, who arrived in UK from USA in 1878 to market medicines for prescribers trading as S M Burroughs & Co. Joined by Henry Wellcome, also a US citizen, in 1880 when established Burroughs Wellcome & Co. Used US marketing practices, eg brand advertising, and technology, eg compressed pills, in establishing a UK pharmaceutical business. From 1883 manufactured pharmaceuticals, initially at Wandsworth and soon after at a major plant at Dartford. Sold under Tabloid brand label. From 1894 established extensive research laboratories. 1924 Henry Wellcome reorganised his interests bringing together manufacturing, research and his various museum/library assets in the Wellcome Foundation Ltd, most of whose functions were centralised at new Euston Road premises in early 1930s. Wellcome Foundation Ltd continued to grow rapidly, consolidating its position as a world leading pharmaceutical business. On Henry Wellcome's death in 1936 his ownership of Wellcome Foundation passed to Wellcome Trust, a charitable entity which devotes its income to medical research and medical history. The Foundation was floated in 1986 as Wellcome Plc after which the Trust steadily reduced its equity interest until in 1995 most of the balance of its holding was sold to Glaxo which facilitated the latter's takeover of Wellcome Plc to form Glaxo Wellcome Plc
Publications:
- A mark of distinction. Branding and trade mark law in the UK from the 1860s by Mercer, John
- An Infinity of Things. How Sir Henry Wellcome collected the world by Larson, Frances
- Attitudes to political and commercial endorsement in the business papers of Silas Mainville Burroughs; with particular reference to Henry Morton Stanley by Beckett, Chris
- British market for medicine in the late nineteenth century. The innovative impact of S M Burroughs & Co by Church, Roy
- 'British pharmaceutical industry and the First World War' in J Liebenau (ed), The Challenge of New Technology by Robson, Michael
- Burroughs Wellcome & Co, 1880-1980. A pioneer of pharmaceutical research by Coe, Fred A
- Burroughs Wellcome & Co. Knowledge, trust, profit and the transformation of the British pharmaceutical industry, 1880-1940 by Church, Roy, & E M Tansey
- Centenary of the Wellcome Production Centre, Dartford, 1889-1989 by White, Katharine
- Collaboration in the Pharmaceutical Industry. Changing relationships in Britain and France, 1935-1965 by Quirke, Viviane
- 'Collecting the everyday. Henry Wellcome and three of his agents' in T Gould (ed), Cures and Curiosities. Inside the Wellcome Library by Unknown
- Collection of a Lifetime. Creating Henry Wellcome's Historical Medical Museum by Larson, Frances
- 'Development of chemical research in the Wellcome Laboratories (UK), 1896-1965' in L Goodwin et al , Wellcome's Legacies by Goodwin, L, & E Beveridge
- 'Early history of the Wellcome Research Laboratories, 1894-1914' in J Liebenau et al (ed), Pill Peddlers. Essays on the history of the pharmaceutical industry by Tansey, E M, & Rosemary C E Milligan
- Henry Wellcome by James, Robert Rhodes
- Henry Wellcome. The man, his collection and his legacy by Turner, Helen
- Imperial networks, colonial bioprospecting and Burroughs Wellcome & Co. The case of Strophanthus Kombe from Malawi, 1859-1915 by Hokkanen, M
- In Pursuit of Excellence. One hundred years of Wellcome, 1880-1980 by Macdonald, Gilbert
- Industrial R&D in pharmaceutical firms in the early twentieth century by Liebenau, Jonathan
- 'Marketing high technology. Educating physicians to use innovative medicines' in R T P Davenport-Hines (ed), Markets and Bagmen. Studies in the history of marketing and British industrial performance, 1830-1939 by Liebenau, Jonathan
- Material culture of British pharmaceutical laboratories in the golden age of drug discovery, c1935-75 by Quirke, Viviane
- Medicines and men. Burroughs, Wellcome & Co and the British drug industry before the Second World War by Tansey, E M
- Model Factories and Villages. Ideal conditions of labour and housing by Meakin, Budgett
- Pharmaceutical Industry in Britain and France, 1919-1939 by Robson, Michael
- Physic and Philanthropy. A history of the Wellcome Trust, 1936-1986 by Hall, A R, & B A Bembridge
- Salesmen and the transformation of selling in Britain and the US in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Church, Roy
- Silas Burroughs, the Man Who Made Wellcome. American ambition and global enterprise by Sheppard, Julia
- Sir Henry Wellcome. A biographical memoir by Unknown
- Souvenir. British Empire Exhibition, 1924 by Unknown
- Story of the Wellcome Trust. Unlocking Sir Henry's legacy to medical research by Williams, Peter O
- The Wellcome Centenary by Unknown
- Trust, Burroughs Wellcome & Co and the foundation of a modern pharmaceutical industry in Britain, 1880-1914 by Church, Roy
- Wellcome Laboratories of Tropical Medicine, 1913-1963 by Unknown
- Wellcome Trust Story, 1960-1991. Personal recollections by Williams, Peter O
- Wellcome's Legacies by Goodwin, L, E Beveridge & J H Gorvin
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Burroughs, Silas
- Burroughs, S M, & Co
- Wellcome, Henry
- Burroughs Wellcome & Co
- Tabloid
- Wellcome Foundation Ltd
- Wellcome Trust
- Wellcome Plc
- Glaxo Wellcome Plc
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Dartford, Kent, Kent, South East, England
- London, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
- Wandsworth, Greater London, Greater London, Greater London, England
Sectors:
- Chemical production Pharmaceutical production & research
Notes:
Traced origins to Silas Burroughs, d1895, who arrived in UK from USA in 1878 to market medicines for prescribers trading as S M Burroughs & Co. Joined by Henry Wellcome, also a US citizen, in 1880 when established Burroughs Wellcome & Co. Used US marketing practices, eg brand advertising, and technology, eg compressed pills, in establishing a UK pharmaceutical business. From 1883 manufactured pharmaceuticals, initially at Wandsworth and soon after at a major plant at Dartford. Sold under Tabloid brand label. From 1894 established extensive research laboratories. 1924 Henry Wellcome reorganised his interests bringing together manufacturing, research and his various museum/library assets in the Wellcome Foundation Ltd, most of whose functions were centralised at new Euston Road premises in early 1930s. Wellcome Foundation Ltd continued to grow rapidly, consolidating its position as a world leading pharmaceutical business. On Henry Wellcome's death in 1936 his ownership of Wellcome Foundation passed to Wellcome Trust, a charitable entity which devotes its income to medical research and medical history. The Foundation was floated in 1986 as Wellcome Plc after which the Trust steadily reduced its equity interest until in 1995 most of the balance of its holding was sold to Glaxo which facilitated the latter's takeover of Wellcome Plc to form Glaxo Wellcome PlcPublications:
- A mark of distinction. Branding and trade mark law in the UK from the 1860s by Mercer, John
- An Infinity of Things. How Sir Henry Wellcome collected the world by Larson, Frances
- Attitudes to political and commercial endorsement in the business papers of Silas Mainville Burroughs; with particular reference to Henry Morton Stanley by Beckett, Chris
- British market for medicine in the late nineteenth century. The innovative impact of S M Burroughs & Co by Church, Roy
- 'British pharmaceutical industry and the First World War' in J Liebenau (ed), The Challenge of New Technology by Robson, Michael
- Burroughs Wellcome & Co, 1880-1980. A pioneer of pharmaceutical research by Coe, Fred A
- Burroughs Wellcome & Co. Knowledge, trust, profit and the transformation of the British pharmaceutical industry, 1880-1940 by Church, Roy, & E M Tansey
- Centenary of the Wellcome Production Centre, Dartford, 1889-1989 by White, Katharine
- Collaboration in the Pharmaceutical Industry. Changing relationships in Britain and France, 1935-1965 by Quirke, Viviane
- 'Collecting the everyday. Henry Wellcome and three of his agents' in T Gould (ed), Cures and Curiosities. Inside the Wellcome Library by Unknown
- Collection of a Lifetime. Creating Henry Wellcome's Historical Medical Museum by Larson, Frances
- 'Development of chemical research in the Wellcome Laboratories (UK), 1896-1965' in L Goodwin et al , Wellcome's Legacies by Goodwin, L, & E Beveridge
- 'Early history of the Wellcome Research Laboratories, 1894-1914' in J Liebenau et al (ed), Pill Peddlers. Essays on the history of the pharmaceutical industry by Tansey, E M, & Rosemary C E Milligan
- Henry Wellcome by James, Robert Rhodes
- Henry Wellcome. The man, his collection and his legacy by Turner, Helen
- Imperial networks, colonial bioprospecting and Burroughs Wellcome & Co. The case of Strophanthus Kombe from Malawi, 1859-1915 by Hokkanen, M
- In Pursuit of Excellence. One hundred years of Wellcome, 1880-1980 by Macdonald, Gilbert
- Industrial R&D in pharmaceutical firms in the early twentieth century by Liebenau, Jonathan
- 'Marketing high technology. Educating physicians to use innovative medicines' in R T P Davenport-Hines (ed), Markets and Bagmen. Studies in the history of marketing and British industrial performance, 1830-1939 by Liebenau, Jonathan
- Material culture of British pharmaceutical laboratories in the golden age of drug discovery, c1935-75 by Quirke, Viviane
- Medicines and men. Burroughs, Wellcome & Co and the British drug industry before the Second World War by Tansey, E M
- Model Factories and Villages. Ideal conditions of labour and housing by Meakin, Budgett
- Pharmaceutical Industry in Britain and France, 1919-1939 by Robson, Michael
- Physic and Philanthropy. A history of the Wellcome Trust, 1936-1986 by Hall, A R, & B A Bembridge
- Salesmen and the transformation of selling in Britain and the US in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Church, Roy
- Silas Burroughs, the Man Who Made Wellcome. American ambition and global enterprise by Sheppard, Julia
- Sir Henry Wellcome. A biographical memoir by Unknown
- Souvenir. British Empire Exhibition, 1924 by Unknown
- Story of the Wellcome Trust. Unlocking Sir Henry's legacy to medical research by Williams, Peter O
- The Wellcome Centenary by Unknown
- Trust, Burroughs Wellcome & Co and the foundation of a modern pharmaceutical industry in Britain, 1880-1914 by Church, Roy
- Wellcome Laboratories of Tropical Medicine, 1913-1963 by Unknown
- Wellcome Trust Story, 1960-1991. Personal recollections by Williams, Peter O
- Wellcome's Legacies by Goodwin, L, E Beveridge & J H Gorvin