MSD (called Merck & Co in USA and Canada) is one of the biggest bio pharmacy corporations on the globe with headquarter in New Jersey, USA. The company employs 74.000 people, operates in 140 countries and generated a turnover of 48 billion Dollars in 2020. With a strong focus on innovation, MSD invests more than 25% of their annual revenue on research and development for their pharmaceuticals, vaccines and animal health products.
After decades of successfully operating in Austria, the company decided to invest in a third Austrian production facility. MSD bought a company premise in Krems, Lower Austria and founded the “MSD AH Danube Biotech GmbH” in 2017.