Merck & Co., Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Rahway, New Jersey, and is named for Merck Group, founded in Germany in 1668, of which it was once the American arm. The company does business as Merck Sharp & Dohme or MSD outside the United States and Canada. It is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, generally ranking in the global top five by revenue.
Merck's branch office campus in Upper Gwynedd Township, Pennsylvania
Gardasil in Japanese packaging (showing the MSD branding)
Merck Research Laboratories in South San Francisco, California
Rahway is a city in southern Union County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. A bedroom community of New York City, it is centrally located in the Rahway Valley region, in the New York metropolitan area. The city is 15 miles (24 km) southwest of Manhattan and 5 miles (8.0 km) west of Staten Island.
The historic Merchants' and Drovers' Tavern
An engraving from 1857 of Main Street in Rahway from Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion.
The Rahway rail station as it was depicted by an artist in 1857. Flatt's carriage warehouse is at left and Degraw's Hotel is center.
Elm Avenue, looking west, c. early 1900s