Merial

Merial Limited
legal form	Limited
founding	1997
Seat	Lyon , France
management	Joachim Hasenmaier
Number of employees	6,900 (2016)
sales	2.515 billion euros (2015)
Branch	Pharmaceutical company
Website	www.merial.com

Merial is a pharmaceutical company that focuses on the manufacture of medicines for veterinary use. The company has been part of Boehringer Ingelheim since January 1, 2017 . The former subsidiary of Sanofi is registered in the UK and is headquartered in Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France .

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Merial employs over 6,500 people worldwide and is represented in more than 150 countries. The main active ingredients are Afoxolaner and Ivermectin , Merial is also an important vaccine manufacturer .

The German branch has been located in Hallbergmoos in Upper Bavaria since December 1997 , in the immediate vicinity of Munich Airport . Merial Germany employs a total of around 120 people.

history

The company was founded in 1997 as a 50:50 joint venture between MSG AgVet ( MSD Sharp & Dohme ) and Rhone Merioux ( Rhône-Poulenc ). Rhône-Poulenc, which at the end of 1999 merged with the German group Hoechst AG to form Aventis , and was called Sanofi-Aventis after another merger , took over the 50% stake from MSD Sharp & Dohme in 2009, which was part of the merger with Schering-Plow was offered. Merial has been Sanofi's animal health division since then.

In March 2010 it was announced that Merial would like to form a new joint venture with Intervet / Schering-Plow , in which the two parent companies Sanofi (Merial) and MSD Sharp & Dohme (Intervet / Schering-Plow) would each have a 50% stake . In March 2011 this was given up by both companies due to complicated antitrust regulations and other reasons.

In June 2016, Sanofi and Boehringer Ingelheim committed to swap the animal health business, Merial, for the self-medication business (CHC). The acquisition was completed on January 1, 2017.

criticism

In August 2007, a laboratory of Merial with the infection of a cow stock in was Surrey ( United Kingdom ) with the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) associated.