Merck KGaA

Headquarters location: Frankfurter Strasse 250 64293 Darmstadt Tel. 49-6151-727-426 Job offers, investor relations: 49-6151-727-426 Email: investor.relations@merck.de

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« ETHICAL » RATING OF MERCK_KGAA , group Merck (famille) and subsidiaries [click on the images below or on help for more information] 4 Delinquency: 4 act(s) of financial or trade delinquency 6 Tax haven, secret bank account, shell companies: operates in 6 offshore financial center(s) Full profile >>>
Relevance: business & market share year business source 2007 Merck manufactures 70% of the liquid crystals for flat-faced LCD screens manufactured in the world. Les Echos 2006 Third-largest generic drug maker in the world. Les Echos World locations & Manufacturing country incentive : address & contact : production type source   Mercury Chemical Agencies Ltd : AFP The map of tax haven, secret accounts and shell companies Merck kgaa is managed by year name photo position; compensation source 2005Römer, Mickael Chairman of the Executive committee; 2003Baumhauer, Jon Chairman of the Executive committee; 2003Becker, Michael Chief Financial Officer; 2003Hornef, Heinrich Chairman of the Monitoring Committee; 2000Scheuble, Bernhard Chief Executive Officer; Highest paid executives in 2007

Made by year employees <> social impact : country source 2005 29133 2003 -320 2002 34504 1999 32721 Layoff plans and labour conditions in 2007 Financials year financial misdemeanor sales income source 2007   7.06 3.5   billion Eu€ Les Echos 2006   4.46 0.98   billion Eu€ Les Echos 2005   5.9 0.66   billion Eu€ 2005 Sued by the State of California for defrauding the state's $34 billion Medi-Cal program by inflating prices. "We're going to drag these drug companies into courts of law because they've been gouging the public," California Attorney General Bill Lockyer said at a news conference. For example, Medi-Cal paid $804.70 US for a bottle of the hypertension drug Atenolol. Providers such as doctors, clinics and pharmacists paid $33.85 US. As a result, providers reimbursed by Medi-Cal for Atenolol pocketed $770.85 US. The windfalls gave doctors, pharmacies and other providers an incentive to prescribe such drugs, which resulted in even more sales by drug makers, Lockyer said.     Canadian P. 2005 Its subsidiary, Generics UK, settled with the NHS over claims that it had helped operate a cartel on generic drugs. The company had been accused of working to artificially inflate the price of certain antibiotics and of ulcer medicine Zantac. The company has paid £12m to settle the claims without admission of liability.     The Telegr. 2003   7.2 0.21   billion Eu€ 2002   7.83 0.56   billion US$ 2002 market-sharing and price-fixing cartels affecting vitamin products in Europe : 9,24 million euros fine.     Commission. 2002 Entente pour fixer le prix de la méthylglucamine entre 1990 et 1999: acquitté pour avoir dénoncé l'entente.     Les Echos 2001   6.67 0.56   billion US$ 2000   6.35 0.2   billion US$ 1999   5.35 0.32   billion Eu€ Financial delinquency in 2007

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