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Merck-Medco
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| Job: 16% of company's jobs cut since 1998 [+] |
| Environment: 1 major pollution(s) [+] |
| Delinquency: 3 act(s) of financial or trade delinquency [+] |
| Tax haven, secret bank account, shell companies: operates in 11 offshore financial center(s) [+] |
| Sales: more than 22 billion(s) dollars/euros in annual sales [+] |
| Net profit: more than 45 billion(s) dollars/euros in cumulated net profit since 1998 [+] |
| Top management: earns 186 times the median income in the United States (32000 US$/year) [+] |
| Influence: 9 act(s) of direct corruption or lobbying [+] |
| Advertising & marketing: 5 dubious practice(s) [+] |
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year | financial misdemeanor | sales | | | | source |
| 2002 |
Class-action lawsuit: Medco was paid more than $3 billion in rebates from drug makers seeking to promote sales of certain drugs; Medco then persuaded doctors to prescribe those drugs to patients at the expense of similar medicines that often cost less. |
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