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Miles Laboratories
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Bayer AG
(1979–1995)

Miles Laboratories was founded as the Dr. Miles Medical Company in

Alka-Selzer and One-A-Day vitamins.[1]

Miles operated as an independent firm from 1884 until 1979 and as a wholly owned subsidiary of Bayer AG from 1979 until 1995. At the company's peak in the 1960s and 1970s, it employed 3,300 people and produced more than two dozen products.[2]

In 1995, it was consolidated into the parent corporation.

History

By 1890, the sales success of his

backache, pain, epilepsy, spasms, fits, and St. Vitus' dance") led him to develop a mail order medicine business. Miles also published Medical News, from 1884—a thinly disguised marketing vehicle for Nervine, now referenced as advertorials. Nervine remained on the market as a "calmative" until the late 1960s; Miles' bromide sedative syrup is considered "a precursor to modern tranquilizers."[3]

The company was at the heart of the 1911 antitrust Supreme Court case

vertical restraint, is illegal per se.[5][6]

In 1932, the company became Dr. Miles Laboratories; then, in 1935, the name was again changed, to Miles Laboratories. In 1947, Miles Laboratories purchased Chemical Specialties Inc.[7]

During World War II the company produced various goods for the US war effort, including packaged coffee products for military rations.

The company already made One-A-Day Vitamins and later introduced Chocks, the first chewable

multivitamins for children. Flintstones Vitamins came later.[8]

In 1970, to complement its existing vitamin manufacturing division, Miles laboratories merged with

meat analogue developed over the previous two decades by Worthington, to be marketed under the brand name Morning Star Farm Foods,[9] Morning Star was sold with Worthington Foods to Kellogg's in 1999.[10]

In 1979,

Bactine,[11] S.O.S Soap Pads
, and Worthington Foods.

Bayer continued to operate Miles Laboratories and developed many drugs based upon biological extracts, such as

hemophiliacs
.

In 1992, Bayer AG moved the United States headquarters of Miles to

Sterling Winthrop the previous year.[2]

Miles Laboratories also operated sites in other parts of the United States, including West Haven, Connecticut, which are now part of Bayer AG. In 2007, the Miles Laboratories campus of Bayer AG in Connecticut was sold to Yale University and now comprises Yale West campus, including art and anthropological restoration and preservation, energy research, nanobiology, systems biology, and Yale Nursing School.[12]

Between 2011 and 2012, the former Miles campus, a 26-acre site located in Elkhart, was vacated and the remaining buildings were demolished.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Bauer, Caleb (2019-02-19). "Bayer announces plans to close last Michiana facility". South Bend Tribune. Retrieved 2022-09-28.
  2. ^ a b c King, Marshall V. "Loss of Miles/Bayer left a hole in Elkhart's heart many years ago". South Bend Tribune. Retrieved 2022-09-13.
  3. ^ Griffin, Jessica Archived 2021-01-29 at the Wayback Machine "Dr. Miles Restorative Nervine, Elkhart, Indiana"; Old Maine Artifacts; 30 November 2013.
  4. ^ "Dr. Miles Medical Co. v. John D. Park & Sons Co., 220 U.S. 373 (1911)". Justia Law. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
  5. ^ Mullin, Sheppard (2007-07-05). "Supreme Court Overrules 96 Year-Old Rule in Dr. Miles and Holds Vertical Price Agreements Are Neither Per Se Illegal Nor Per Se Legal, But Subject to Case-By-Case Test". Antitrust Law Blog. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
  6. doi:10.2139/ssrn.1009972
    – via papers.ssrn.com.
  7. ^ VanderVeen, Steve. "Steve VanderVeen: Con DePree and DePree Chemical Company". The Holland Sentinel. Retrieved 2022-09-13.
  8. ^ "6 things you never knew about Flintstones Vitamins". MeTV. July 7, 2020. Archived from the original on November 28, 2020. Retrieved March 2, 2021.
  9. ^ Worthington Libraries Archived 2018-06-26 at the Wayback Machine "Officers of Worthington Foods and Miles Laboratories"; WorthingtonMemory.org; Worthington, Ohio; 16 November 2017.
  10. ^ "Kellogg pivots to boost sales of Morningstar Farms". Fortune. December 17, 2016. Archived from the original on April 13, 2017. Retrieved April 13, 2017.
  11. ^ Van Arsdall, Sherry (2016-04-29). "You Should Know: Arden Stickel". Goshen News. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  12. ^ "Deal of the century". yalealumnimagazine.com.
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