Merck KGaA

Company Profile

• Business description

  Merck KGaA operates in three main segments: life sciences, performance materials, and healthcare. The life sciences segment (44% of 2023 sales) primarily provides laboratory consumables and services to researchers in academia and applied fields, including the biopharmaceutical industry. In the healthcare segment (38%), Merck develops, manufactures, and sells branded pharmaceuticals with significant therapeutic concentrations in oncology, multiple sclerosis, and fertility. In its electronics segment (17%), the company offers specialty materials to manufacture a variety of products, such as semiconductors, flat-screen televisions, automobiles, and cosmetics. In 1995, the E. Merck KG family publicly sold part of the company, resulting in the current 30% public ownership of the firm.

• Contact

  Frankfurter Strasse 250
  DarmstadtHE64293
  DEU

  T: +49 6151720

  https://www.emdgroup.com

• Sector

  Healthcare

  Stock type

  Defensive

• Industry

  Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic

  Fiscal Year End

  31 December 2025

  Employees

  62,255