Merckle
| Merckle GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Company with limited liability |
| founding | 1881 |
| Seat |
Blaubeuren Germany
|
| management | Markus Leyck Dieken, managing director |
| Number of employees | 1765 (2015) |
| sales | 1.17 billion euros (2015) |
| Branch | Drug manufacturing |
The Merckle GmbH is a German pharmaceutical company , headquartered in Blaubeuren . The company, which has been part of the Israeli Teva Group since 2010 , has production sites in Ulm and Blaubeuren.
history
The company was founded in 1881 in Aussig (Böhmen), now the Czech Republic , as a chemical wholesaler and was re-established by Ludwig Merckle in the Swabian town of Blaubeuren after the expropriation after the Second World War . In 1967 his son Adolf Merckle took over the management and founded the company Ratiopharm in 1973 , initially as a subsidiary of Merckle GmbH.
In 2004 Merckle Biotec GmbH for biopharmaceutical active ingredients was founded as a subsidiary. In 2005 the original products from Merckle GmbH such as Dolobe and Mirfulan were sold to Recordati Pharma GmbH .
From 2005 to 2010 the company operated as part of the Ratiopharm Group. Since 2010 it has belonged to Teva Pharmaceutical Industries together with Ratiopharm .
Web links
- Pills, sewing thread, ski areas ( memento from March 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). In: Financial Times Deutschland , March 17, 2008.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Annual financial statements for the financial year from January 1 to December 31, 2015 of Merckle GmbH. In: Bundesanzeiger , February 16, 2017, accessed in the company register on June 29, 2017.