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Merck Specialities Pvt. Ltd. is a supplier and producer of pharmaceutical and chemical products with its headquarters in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. The company is a part of the Merck Group of Darmstadt which is based in Germany. Merck Specialities Pvt. Ltd. was set up in the year 2005 and is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Merck KGaA. Looking at the background of the company, the Germany-based Merck was founded by Friedrich Jacob Merck in the year 1668 at Darmstadt. The name of the company was changed from Merck Ltd. to Procter & Gamble Health Limited in the year 2019 after it acquired the consumer health business of Merck KGaA in the year 2018. It is a subsidiary of the company Procter & Gamble Overseas India BV. The company entered India and was incorporated as a private limited company on the 26th of April in the year 1967 under the name E. Merck India Private Limited in Mumbai and became a public limited company in the year 1981. It took over the operations of Emedia Export Company. When the company began its production in the country, it had only one hundred and fifteen workers. Before the inception of this company, there have been evidences of business contact between the company and India in Kolkata as early as in the 1890s and "E. Merck Scientific Department" was established in the year 1939 in the city under the management of Karl Heinz Fietje. Merck Specialities Pvt. Ltd is involved in the trade of pharmaceutical and chemical products in the markets of India and covers the Healthcare, Life Science and Electronics sectors. In the year 2017, the company completed fifty years of service in India.
The company specializes in the areas of fertility, oncology, general medicine, neurology, immunology and endocrinology.
Merck Specialities Pvt. Ltd. has its manufacturing facilities and IT centres located in India at Khopoli in Mumbai and Peenya and Jigani in Bengaluru. The company got its Peenya site because of its joint venture with the USA-based Millipore Corporation while the Jigani site was added after the acquisition of Sigma Aldrich Chemicals Private Limited. The company performs its operations in the country with the help of its established offices at Delhi, Kolkata, Ahmedabad and Hyderabad.
Some of the top products of the company are CONCOR, CONCOR AM, ERBITUX, GONAL-F, LODOZ, EUTHYROX, CARBOPHAGE-G, CARBOPHAGE, OLMIGHTY, STARVOG, OVITRELLE, TRIOLMIGHTY, OLMIGHTY-H, LIPIGO, STARVOG GM, STARVOG M, CONCOR PLUS, LUVERIS, OLMIGHTY-AM, LIPIGO-F, LIPIGO A, DEPICOR, REBIDOSE, UTHYROX, REBIF, CARBOPHAGE-P, EMADINE AT, EMADINE and ISOCOR.
Friedrich Jacob Merck
Friedrich Jacob Merck
The contact details of the company are:
Tel: +2262109000
Fax:+2262109800