Company Overview
Merck is a vibrant team of specialists in Healthcare, Life Science and Performance Materials. We share a love of science and a passion for technology.
We want to develop products and solutions for a better life. That's why we take a closer look at things, ask questions and think ahead.
We've been around for almost 350 years, yet the great majority of our shares are still held by the descendants of Friedrich Jacob Merck, the man who founded our company in Darmstadt in 1668. To us, our 50,000 employees are more than lab coats, blue-collars, suits or faces amongst many others. Around the world we employ discoverers, we clear the way for pioneers and encourage bold innovators.
