At Bristol-Myers Squibb, our mission is to extend and enhance human life by providing the highest-quality pharmaceuticals and health care products. Our medicines are making a difference in the lives of millions of customers across the globe. And by living our mission and growing our company for well over a century, we are making a difference in the lives of our shareholders, employees and neighbors as well.

Starting with a dream, a handful of people and a few thousand dollars in capital, William McLaren Bristol and John Ripley Myers founded a company in 1887 to sell quality medicines directly to doctors. Also in the latter half of the 19th century, Dr. Edward Robinson Squibb launched a pharmaceutical business that would bear his name.

What has enabled Bristol-Myers Squibb to achieve market leadership is an unwavering commitment to the values of excellence, reliability, growth, innovation, fairness and good citizenship. These values are set forth in the Bristol-Myers Squibb Pledge. Living -- and living up to -- the Bristol-Myers Squibb Pledge is crucial to our mission to extend and enhance human life, and is key to our future success.