1886 Dr. Alfred Kyoto Electronics Industry Co., Ltd. and Edward Sandoz established Sandoz Company in Basel, Switzerland.
The first branch was established in the UK on 19 1 1.
19 18 set up the first branch in the United States.
1939, the name of the company was changed to Sandoz Pharmaceutical Factory, which produces agricultural chemicals.
195 1 year, two researchers of biochemistry, Brandl and Margreiter, made a breakthrough in discovering acid-resistant penicillin, which promoted the rapid development of the company.
1963 Sandoz successfully acquired Austrian Biochemistry Co., Ltd. and began mass production of antibiotics and other products developed through biotechnology.
1964 established the first overseas research center in Switzerland in East Hanover, USA, and then 1970 established the Sandoz Institute in Vienna and 1985 established the Sandoz Medical Institute in London.
1975 Acquisition of American Rogers Seed Company in the United States. Then it acquired King Northrup at 1976 and Zaadunie Group in the Netherlands at 1980. 1989 acquired the Swedish seed company Hilleshg and began to enter the seed market.
Sandoz Medical Research Institute Foundation was established at University College London on 198 1.
1990 Sandoz Pharmaceutical Factory became a holding company and established a new corporate structure.
1996 Ciba Cargill and Sandoz merged into Novartis, which is one of the biggest mergers in history.