Organon & Co. is an American pharmaceutical company headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.[3] Organon specializes in the following core therapeutic fields: reproductive medicine, contraception, psychiatry, hormone replacement therapy (HRT), and anesthesia. Organon produces all its products outside of the United States but receives a third of its revenue from the United States.
History
Organon was founded in 1923 as a partnership between Professor Ernst Laqueur, a physiologist/endocrinologist of the University of Amsterdam, and Saal van Zwanenberg[4] who owned a slaughterhouse, Zwanenbergs Slachterije en Fabrieken, in Oss in Northern Brabant. The company's first product was insulin in 1923.[5] In the 1930s it manufactured estrogens, in particular estrone under the trade name Menformon.[5]