’18-year overnight success story’
Hard work, perseverance pays off for Cypress/Hawthorn
by Wally Northway
Published: June 26,2011
Tags: Cypress Pharmaceutical Inc., Hawthorn Pharmaceuticals Inc., Made in Mississippi, Max Draughn, pharmaceutical industry
In 1993, a small business opened in Madison with little fanfare. With a single employee and one product housed in a tiny, 1,800-square-foot facility, even the company’s founder and CEO did not envision that company, Cypress Pharmaceutical Inc., would one day employ more than 100 workers in a sprawling, 60,000-plus-square-foot complex in Gluckstadt and have [...]
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