Merck & Co. Inc.
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| Type: | Public |
| Industry: | Pharmaceuticals |
| Founded: | 1917 as an independent company |
| Founder(s): | George Merck |
| Headquarters: | Kenilworth, New Jersey, |
| Country: | United States |
| Products: | medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies, and animal health products. |
| Employees: | Approximately 68,000 (as of March 31, 2016) |
| Revenue: | $39.5 billion (2015) |
| Website: | Merck Website |
| Key People | |
| Kenneth C. Frazier, chairman of the board, president and chief executive officer | |
Merck & Co. is one of the largest pharmaceutical and chemical companies in the world whose core product categories include diabetes, cancer, vaccines and hospital acute care. They also focus their research on cancer, hepatitis C, cardio-metabolic disease, antibiotic-resistant infection and Alzheimer's disease.[1]
References
- ↑ http://www.merck.com/about/our-history/facts/home.html Merck Company, Retrieved 2nd July 2016