Merck was incorporated in India as E. Merck India Private Limited in 1967. In 2017 we completed 50 years in India, starting out as a pharmaceutical company and growing to become a science and technology business spanning all the sectors of Healthcare, Life Science and Electronics.
Merck was founded in 1668 at Darmstadt, Germany, by Friedrich Jacob Merck. We've been around for 350 years, and the founding family continues to be our majority owners.