High margins in all three businesses despite challenging economic headwinds and increasing global uncertainty

12-May-2022

Merck achieved strong results in the first quarter of 2022. Net sales increased by 12.2% to € 5,198 million compared with the year-earlier quarter. All three business sectors contributed to this growth. The key drivers were the company’s Big3 businesses – the Process Solutions business of Life ...

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The groundbreaking aspect of her work centers on making circular dichroism ion spectroscopy feasible for large biomolecule ions

21-Apr-2022

Merck, a leading science and technology company, today presented Dr. Valérie Gabelica (44), Inserm, and Director of IECB, Pessac, France, with the 2022 Heinrich Emanuel Merck Award for Analytical Science. The award ceremony took place during the analytical conference EuroFAST2022, Nijmegen, the ...

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Greater investments in high-growth businesses

03-Mar-2022

Merck delivered record growth in fiscal 2021. In the course of the year, the company had already raised its business forecast three times. Group net sales increased by 12.3% to €19.7 billion compared with the previous year. All three business sectors, first and foremost Life Science, contributed ...

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“Over the past decade, M Ventures has established itself globally as a leading partner to the biotech and tech venture ecosystems”

09-Dec-2021

Merck announced the expansion of its strategic, corporate venture capital arm M Ventures. The new investment of €600 million allocated to M Ventures will be deployed over the next five years. This is the third increase in financial commitment announced by Merck since the creation of M Ventures ...

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Increasing complexity, short-termism and the decline of government funding threaten scientific research productivity

12-Nov-2021

Merck unveiled a representative study on scientific research productivity. Research productivity is defined in this study as the ratio of measurable input (e.g. number of researchers, financial investment) to measurable output (e.g. patents, publications). The study identified four factors that ...

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Group net sales rise by 11.8% to € 5.0 billion

11-Nov-2021

Merck again grew strongly in the third quarter of 2021. Group net sales amounted to €5.0billion. EBITDA pre, the most important financial indicator to steer operating business, reached €1.6billion. Compared with the year-earlier quarter, Group net sales increased by 11.8%. EBITDA pre ...

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Investment of nearly € 28 million in Gernsheim strengthens manufacturing site

22-Sep-2021

Merck opens a second production line for silica-based effect pigments. Around 750 employees work at this site, which is home to Merck's largest pigment production facility worldwide. With this investment, Merck will significantly increase production capacities for silicon dioxide flakes, a ...

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Future Insight Prize 2021 of € 1 Million Awarded to Ting Lu and Stephen Techtmann

15-Jul-2021

Merck announced the winners of this year’s Future Insight Prize. The €1million prize in the category of “Food Generation” was awarded today during the Future Insight Days in Darmstadt, Germany, to Ting Lu, Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, and ...

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Organic sales growth of 12.2% driven by all three business sectors, especially Life Science

12-May-2021

Merck achieved strong business results in the first quarter. Group sales increased by 6.0% to € 4.6 billion compared with the year-earlier quarter – mainly thanks to the high organic growth of the Life Science business sector. Group EBITDA pre, the company’s most important financial indicator ...

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Merck hands over the care of customers from the paints and coatings industry, the printing industry and the plastics sector to Bodo Möller Chemie

27-Apr-2021

The Bodo Möller Chemie Group takes over the care of customers of Merck in the countries of Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Iceland for the product area of effect pigments and additives for coatings, printings and plastics. Starting on May 1st, 2021, the Offenbach-based Bodo Möller Chemie ...

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