Merck KGaA (ETR:MRK)
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At close: Mar 27, 2026

Merck KGaA Company Description

Merck KGaA operates as a science and technology company in Europe, North America, Latin America, Middle East and Africa, and the Asia Pacific.

The Life Science segment offers products, solutions, and services to academic, research and diagnostic labs, biotech, and pharmaceutical companies, as well as the industrial sector; reagents, consumables, devices, instruments, software, and services for research, production, and testing to lab water instruments, microbiology and biomonitoring products, test assays, analytical reagents, and flow cytometry kits and instruments.

This segment also provides traditional and novel therapies, such as ration devices, chromatography resins, single-use systems, process chemicals, and excipients for bioprocessing; contract development, manufacturing and testing services, which supports customers from preclinical phases to commercialization.

The Healthcare segment discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets prescription drugs and biopharmaceuticals to the therapeutic areas of oncology, rare diseases, neurology and immunology, fertility, cardiovascular, and metabolic and endocrinological disorders.

The Electronics segment offers advanced dielectric and metallic materials; photoresist, anti-reflective coating, and material lithography products; clean and selective etch chemistries; materials for chemical-mechanical planarization; high-purity gases for semiconductor manufacturing; and develops and installs delivery equipment for handling of specialty chemicals and gases for semiconductor manufacturing; develops modulating, creating, engineering, and guiding light; and material solutions in liquid crystals, OLED materials, and photoresists.

It has in-licensing agreement with Abbisko Therapeutics Co. Ltd., China on drug candidates for the treatment of tenosynovial giant cell tumor.

The company was founded in 1668 and is headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany. Merck KGaA is a subsidiary of E.

Merck KG.

Merck KGaA
Merck KGaA logo
CountryGermany
Founded1668
IndustryDrug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic
SectorHealthcare
Employees59,077
CEOBelen Garijo Lopez

Contact Details

Address:
Frankfurter Strasse 250
Darmstadt, 64293
Germany
Phone49 6151 72 0
Websiteemdgroup.com

Stock Details

Ticker SymbolMRK
ExchangeDeutsche Börse Xetra
Fiscal YearJanuary - December
Reporting CurrencyEUR
ISIN NumberDE0006599905
SIC Code2834

Key Executives

NamePosition
Jean Charles WirthMember of the Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer Life Science
Danny Pinhas Bar-Zohar M.D.Member of the Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer of Healthcare
Dr. Kai BeckmannChief Executive Officer of Electronics and Deputy Chair Executive Board
Belen Garijo Lopez M.D.Chair of Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer
Helene von RoederChief Financial Officer and Member of Executive Board
Khadija Ben HammadaMember of the Executive Board and Chief People Officer
Florian SchraederHead of Investor Relations
Axel LoberHead of Global Communications
Frank GotthardtHead of Corporate and Government Relations - Europe
Marc HornHead of Life Science Controlling