Pfizer. Pfizer is continuing a restructuring of its manufacturing network, which was announced in May 2010, as part of its integration plan following its $68-billion acquisition of Wyeth in 2009. As of Dec. 31, 2010, Pfizer operated plants in 76 locations on a global basis with major manufacturing facilities in Belgium, China, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Singapore, and the continental United States. The company's plant network strategy calls for the exit of nine sites during the next several years, according to the company's 2010 annual filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Pfizer's strategy, as detailed in May 2010, includes plans to discontinue operations at three solid-dosage sites in Caguas, Puerto Rico; Loughbeg, Ireland; and Rouses Point, New York. Pfizer also announced plans to phase out pharmaceutical solid-dosage manufacturing in Guayama, Puerto Rico, but that site will expand its consumer-healthcare operations. Reductions are planned at two other solid-dosage facilities in Illertissen, Germany, and Newbridge, Ireland.