Merck Group

Merck KGaA, operating globally as the Merck Group, is a German multinational science and technology company headquartered in Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany, at Frankfurter Strasse 250. Founded in 1668 when Friedrich Jacob Merck purchased a pharmacy in Darmstadt, Merck KGaA is the world's oldest operating chemical and pharmaceutical company and one of t... he largest pharmaceutical enterprises globally. The company is organized as a Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien, a corporation with general partners, with the founding Merck family now in its thirteenth generation retaining majority ownership of approximately seventy percent of total capital through E. Merck KG. Merck KGaA has been publicly traded on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 1995 and is a constituent of the DAX index of Germany's leading companies. The Merck Group encompasses approximately two hundred and fifty companies operating across sixty-five countries, with a global workforce of approximately sixty-three thousand employees. The group is organized into three core business sectors: Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Electronics. The Healthcare division discovers, develops, and manufactures prescription medicines focused on oncology, multiple sclerosis, and fertility, with key products including treatments for metastatic colorectal cancer and other serious conditions. The Life Sciences division, operating as MilliporeSigma in the United States and Canada, provides laboratory equipment, reagents, gene editing tools, cell lines, antibodies, biomonitoring products, analytical instruments, and end-to-end bioprocessing systems to research institutions, biotech companies, and pharmaceutical manufacturers worldwide. The Electronics division develops advanced materials including liquid crystal mixtures, organic light-emitting diode materials, semiconductor process chemicals, and high-performance specialty materials for the global electronics and display industries. In the United States and Canada, Merck KGaA operates under the umbrella brand EMD, with divisions ...Read More