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Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation
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Ewing Marion Kauffman was born on a farm in Garden City, Missouri, in 1916. His family moved to Kansas City when he was a boy, and he called Kansas City home for the rest of his life.
Following his service in the Navy during World War II, Ewing Kauffman began working as a salesman for a pharmaceutical company. In 1950, his innately entrepreneurial spirit led him to start his own pharmaceutical company in the basement of his home.
He named his company Marion Laboratories Inc., using his middle name rather than his last name so his customers wouldn’t perceive him as a one-man operation. In his first year in business, he had sales of $36,000 and a net profit of $1,000. When he sold his company to Merrell Dow in 1989, it had grown to become a global diversified health care giant with nearly $1 billion in sales and employing 3,400 associates.
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- EwingMarionKauffman Foundation
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- Kansas City MO
- United States 64110-2046
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- +1.8169321000
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- Alexa: Emkf.org
