Zone d'identification
Type of entity
Personne
Forme autorisée du nom
Duncan Flockhart and Co. (manufacturing chemists)
forme(s) parallèle(s) du nom
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Autre(s) forme(s) du nom
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates d’existence
1816-1952
Historique
1816: founded; 1952: T & H Smith bought Duncan Flockhart; by 1960, T & H Smith and J.F Macfarlan merged to form Edinburgh Pharmaceuticals; 1963: the Glaxo Group bought Edinburgh Pharmaceuticals and used the name Macfarlan Smith Ltd. Macfarlan Smith remained part of Glaxo until 1990, when there was a Management Buy Out. 1995: Macfarlan Smith Limited floated on the London Stock Market under the holding company Meconic; 2001: Johnson Matthey plc acquired Meconic; 1995-2005: Wellcome UK Limited (now dissolved) [taken from Science Museum website: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/cp111588/duncan-flockhart-and-company-limited]