The ‘Squibb Corporation’ was established in 1858 in Brooklyn by Dr. Edward Robinson Squibb. This company concentrated on the development of medicines.

Bristol-Myers was established in 1887 by the founders William McLaren Bristol and John Ripley Myers. Together they bought a small pharmaceutical company in the northern part of the state of New York. Quality was central to the Bristol-Myers company from the very beginning.

Before the merger between Bristol-Myers and Squibb was realised in 1989, both companies had developed parallel to each other for over a century. In the meantime Bristol-Myers Squibb has become a global BioPharma company firmly focused on its Mission to discover, develop and deliver innovative medicines that help patients prevail over serious diseases.