Merck & Co to buy Cubist Pharmaceuticals for $8.4 bn

10 Dec 2014

Merck expects the acquisition to add more than $1 billion of revenue after closing in the first quarter, but will be neutral to non-GAAP earnings per share until 2016

Merck & Co in talks to buy Cubist Pharmaceuticals for more than $7 bn

06 Dec 2014

Cubist Pharmaceuticals develops drugs for potentially life-threatening infections caused by dangerous bacteria categorised as serious and urgent public health threats

Merck oncology drug wins ‘breakthrough’ classification by US regulators

28 Oct 2014

Keytruda, Merck & Co's flagship new drug, forms part of a new generation of oncology treatments that use the body’s own immune system to attack and destroy tumours

Merck & Co to sell some eye care products to Japan’s Santen Pharmaceutical for $600 mn

13 May 2014

Merck & Co to sell consumer care business to Germany's Bayer for $14.2 bn

06 May 2014

The deal, which will make Bayer the second-biggest over-the-counter drugs (OTC) maker after Johnson & Johnson, is the largest in the German healthcare industry after Bayer outbid Merck to acquire Schering in 2006 for $21.5 billion

Bayer offers to swap cash and animal health unit for Merck's consumer healthcare

30 Apr 2014

German healthcare major Bayer AG has offered to swap its animal health unit and also pay some cash in exchange for Merck & Co's consumer healthcare business

Bayer, Novartis, Reckitt Benckiser, P&G in fray for Merck & Co's consumer healthcare unit

20 Feb 2014

Bayer, Novartis, Reckitt Benckiser, and Procter & Gamble are among the companies that are exploring a deal to buy Merck &Co's consumer healthcare unit

Merck & Co agrees to pay $100 mn to settle NuvaRing contraceptive lawsuits

08 Feb 2014

Merck & Co mulls sale of consumer healthcare, animal health businessess

01 Feb 2014

Aspen Pharmacare to buy API business from Merck in $1 billion deal

27 Jun 2013

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