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| 1 | 1 | # G. D. Searle & Company <!--company--> | |
| 2 | 2 | ||
| 3 | 3 | ## Identity <!--identity--> | |
| 4 | 4 | name: G. D. Searle & Company | |
| 5 | 5 | disambiguation: the American pharmaceutical company that introduced Metamucil, now part of Pfizer as G.D. Searle, LLC | |
| 6 | 6 | summary: American pharmaceutical company of Skokie, Illinois, founded 1888, which introduced Metamucil in 1934 and sold it to Procter & Gamble in 1985. | |
| 7 | + | legal_name: G.D. Searle, LLC | |
| 8 | + | wikidata: Q198605 | |
| 7 | 9 | country: US | |
| 8 | − | founded: 1908 | |
| 10 | + | founded: 1888 | |
| 9 | 11 | <!--/identity--> | |
| 10 | 12 | ||
| 13 | + | ## Relations <!--relations--> | |
| 14 | + | | role | target | market | from | until | ended | status | source | note | | |
| 15 | + | | -------- | ----------------------------- | ------ | ---- | ----- | ----- | ------- | ------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | |
| 16 | + | | owned_by | company/pfizer | | 2003 | | | sourced | ^searle | Pfizer took Searle over when it acquired Pharmacia in 2003; the article describes Searle as a subsidiary of Pfizer | | |
| 17 | + | | owned_by | company/pharmacia-corporation | | 1985 | 2003 | true | sourced | ^searle | bought Searle in 1985 under its then name Monsanto Company; SEC EDGAR holds that Delaware filer, CIK 0000067686, as Pharmacia Corp with Monsanto Co as its former name | | |
| 18 | + | <!--/relations--> | |
| 19 | + | ||
| 11 | 20 | ## Aliases <!--aliases--> | |
| 12 | 21 | | name | type | locale | from | until | | |
| 13 | 22 | | ------------------ | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- | | |
| 14 | 23 | | G.D. Searle, LLC | legal | en | | | | |
| 15 | 24 | | G. D. Searle & Co. | search | en | | | | |
| 16 | 25 | | Searle | search | en | | | | |
| 26 | + | | Searle & Co. | search | en | | | | |
| 17 | 27 | <!--/aliases--> | |
| 18 | 28 | ||
| 29 | + | ## Images <!--images--> | |
| 30 | + | | asset | kind | source | licence | attribution | url | accessed | note | provider_entity_id | provider_image_id | source_image_url | download_url | retrieved_at | matched_barcode | match_method | match_confidence | original_width | original_height | stored_width | stored_height | upscaled | | |
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| 32 | + | | logo-82ddf76e.png | logo | wikimedia-commons | public-domain | G.D. Searle, LLC | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ASearle_Company_logo.svg | 2026-09-22 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| 33 | + | <!--/images--> | |
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| 19 | 35 | ## References <!--references--> | |
| 20 | − | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
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| 22 | − | | searle | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.D._Searle,_LLC | Wikipedia: G. D. Searle & Company | 2026-09-19 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | | | |
| 23 | − | | wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamucil | Wikipedia: Metamucil | 2026-09-19 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | | | |
| 36 | + | | ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream | | |
| 37 | + | | -------- | --------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------- | --------------------------------------- | ----------- | --------- | ---------- | ------- | ------------ | ---------------------- | -------- | | |
| 38 | + | | searle | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.D._Searle,_LLC | Wikipedia: G. D. Searle & Company | 2026-09-22 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | | | |
| 39 | + | | wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamucil | Wikipedia: Metamucil | 2026-09-19 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | | | |
| 40 | + | | monsanto | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto | Wikipedia: Monsanto | 2026-09-22 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | | | |
| 41 | + | | pfizer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer | Wikipedia: Pfizer | 2026-09-22 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | | | |
| 42 | + | | edgar | https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0000067686.json | SEC EDGAR: Pharmacia Corp /DE/ (CIK 0000067686), submissions | 2026-09-22 | U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission | registry | | 0000067686 | | | | | | |
| 43 | + | | wikidata | https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q198605 | Wikidata: G. D. Searle & Company (Q198605) | 2026-09-22 | Wikidata | other | | Q198605 | | CC0 | Wikidata contributors | | | |
| 24 | 44 | <!--/references--> | |
| 25 | 45 | ||
| 26 | 46 | ## About <!--about--> | |
| 27 | − | G. D. Searle & Company was an American pharmaceutical maker, begun by Gideon Daniel Searle in Omaha, Nebraska in 1888, incorporated in 1908 and run from Skokie, Illinois from 1941.[^searle] It is the company that introduced the psyllium fiber supplement Metamucil in 1934 and sold that brand to Procter & Gamble in 1985.[^wiki] Searle is better known for Enovid, the first commercial oral contraceptive, for the sweetener aspartame and for the arthritis drug celecoxib.[^searle] | |
| 28 | − | ||
| 29 | − | Monsanto bought Searle in 1985, the same year Metamucil changed hands, in a takeover negotiated by Searle's then chief executive Donald Rumsfeld. Monsanto merged with Pharmacia & Upjohn in 2001 and Pfizer acquired the resulting company, Pharmacia, in 2003, so the Searle business belongs to Pfizer today and carries the name G.D. Searle, LLC.[^searle] | |
| 47 | + | G. D. Searle & Company was an American pharmaceutical maker, begun by Gideon Daniel Searle in Omaha, Nebraska in 1888, incorporated in 1908 and run from Skokie, Illinois from 1941.[^searle] It is the company that introduced the psyllium fiber supplement Metamucil in 1934 and sold that brand to Procter & Gamble in 1985.[^wiki] Searle is better known for Enovid, the first commercial oral contraceptive, for the sweetener aspartame and for the arthritis drug celecoxib, which its research division patented in 1993.[^searle] The business survives inside Pfizer under the name G.D. Searle, LLC.[^searle] | |
| 30 | 48 | ||
| 31 | − | No free public register record of the company could be read for this page, so the founding year on this page is the year of incorporation the encyclopedia article states rather than a register entry; the business itself dates from 1888, and no registered address or register number could be sourced. | |
| 49 | + | Monsanto bought Searle in 1985, the same year Metamucil changed hands, in a takeover negotiated by Searle's then chief executive Donald Rumsfeld.[^searle] The buyer was the original Monsanto Company of St. Louis, a chemical maker founded in 1901: it merged with Pharmacia & Upjohn, took the name Pharmacia Corporation and then spun its agricultural business off as a new company under the Monsanto name, which Bayer bought in 2018.[^monsanto] SEC EDGAR holds the two names as one Delaware filer, CIK 0000067686, recorded as Pharmacia Corp with Monsanto Co as its former name.[^edgar] The two encyclopedia articles date that merger differently: the Searle article puts it in 2001, while the Monsanto article has it agreed with Pharmacia & Upjohn in December 1999 and the new Monsanto spun off in 2000.[^searle][^monsanto] Pfizer merged with Pharmacia in 2003 and acquired Searle with it, so the Searle business belongs to Pfizer today.[^pfizer] | |
| 32 | 50 | <!--/about--> |
Source of v1
# G. D. Searle & Company <!--company-->
## Identity <!--identity-->
name: G. D. Searle & Company
disambiguation: the American pharmaceutical company that introduced Metamucil, now part of Pfizer as G.D. Searle, LLC
summary: American pharmaceutical company of Skokie, Illinois, founded 1888, which introduced Metamucil in 1934 and sold it to Procter & Gamble in 1985.
country: US
founded: 1908
<!--/identity-->
## Aliases <!--aliases-->
| name | type | locale | from | until |
| ------------------ | ------ | ------ | ---- | ----- |
| G.D. Searle, LLC | legal | en | | |
| G. D. Searle & Co. | search | en | | |
| Searle | search | en | | |
<!--/aliases-->
## References <!--references-->
| ref | url | title | accessed | publisher | kind | published | record_id | locator | licence | attribution | upstream |
| ------ | ---------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------- | ---------- | --------- | ----------- | --------- | --------- | ------- | ------------ | ---------------------- | -------- |
| searle | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.D._Searle,_LLC | Wikipedia: G. D. Searle & Company | 2026-09-19 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
| wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamucil | Wikipedia: Metamucil | 2026-09-19 | Wikipedia | publication | | | | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Wikipedia contributors | |
<!--/references-->
## About <!--about-->
G. D. Searle & Company was an American pharmaceutical maker, begun by Gideon Daniel Searle in Omaha, Nebraska in 1888, incorporated in 1908 and run from Skokie, Illinois from 1941.[^searle] It is the company that introduced the psyllium fiber supplement Metamucil in 1934 and sold that brand to Procter & Gamble in 1985.[^wiki] Searle is better known for Enovid, the first commercial oral contraceptive, for the sweetener aspartame and for the arthritis drug celecoxib.[^searle]
Monsanto bought Searle in 1985, the same year Metamucil changed hands, in a takeover negotiated by Searle's then chief executive Donald Rumsfeld. Monsanto merged with Pharmacia & Upjohn in 2001 and Pfizer acquired the resulting company, Pharmacia, in 2003, so the Searle business belongs to Pfizer today and carries the name G.D. Searle, LLC.[^searle]
No free public register record of the company could be read for this page, so the founding year on this page is the year of incorporation the encyclopedia article states rather than a register entry; the business itself dates from 1888, and no registered address or register number could be sourced.
<!--/about-->