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A. H. Robins Company
Over 125 years, the A. H. Robins Company grew into a pharmaceutical empire. In 1936, shortly after E. Claiborne Robins, Sr., graduated from pharmacy school, he took over the business begun by his father in 1906 and turned it into a pharmaceutical empire. In 1949, A. H. Robins Company introduced Robitussin and later Dimetapp and Chapstick. The company continued under family control until 1989 when it was sold to American Home Products. |