Merck is a leading science and technology company in healthcare, life science and performance materials.
The Merck Group, branded and commonly known as Merck, is a German multinational pharmaceutical, chemical and life sciences company headquartered in Darmstadt, with around53,000 employees in 66 countries working on breakthrough solutions and technologies.
Our pursuit is progress for people everywhere. That’s why we take a closer look at things, ask questions and think ahead.
We’ve been around for 350 years, yet our majority owners are still the descendants of Friedrich Jacob Merck, the man who founded our company in Darmstadt, Germany in 1668. In 2017, we invested a total of € 2.1 billion in research and development.
We are Merck. The only exceptions are the United States and Canada. Here we operate as EMD Serono in the Biopharma business, as MilliporeSigma in the Life Science business, and as EMD Performance Materials in the materials business.
