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'''Merck''' is an international [[pharmaceutical]] company and publishes the industry standard Merck Drug Guide. Top competitors include [[Bristol-Myers Squibb]], [[Pfizer]], and [[Sanofi-Aventis]]. Top brand name [[pharmaceuticals]] include Singulair (asthma), Cozaar and Hyzaar (hypertension) and Vytorin, Zetia and Zocor (cholesteral). Merck also manufactures Januvia (type 2 diabetes), Fosamax (osteoporosis), Cosopt and Trusopt (eye disease). The company manufactures childhood and adult vaccines for measles, mumps, hepatitis, and shingles.<ref>[http://www.hoovers.com/merck/--ID__10986--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml Company Description: Merck], ''Hoovers'', accessed December 2009</ref>
In the fiscal year ending in December of 20092011, Merck reported global sales of approximately 27$48 billion<ref>[http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/financials/financials.asp?ticker=MRK Merck & Co. Inc.43 billion dollars (MRK:New York): Financials], ''Bloomberg BusinessWeek'', online corporate profile, accessed September 13, 2012</ref> and had 86,000 employees<ref>[http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=MRK Merck & Co. Inc. (MRK:New York): Snapshot], ''Bloomberg BusinessWeek'', online corporate profile, accessed September 13, 2012</ref> (down from 100,000 employeesin 2009, when it had $27.43 billion in sales). <ref>[http://www.hoovers.com/company/Merck__Co_Inc/rrytji-1-1njea5.html Key Merck & Co., Inc. Financials], ''Hoovers'', accessed December 2010</ref>
==Ties to the American Legislative Exchange Council==
Merck was a "Trustee" level sponsor of 2011 [[American Legislative Exchange Council]] Annual Conference, which in 2010, equated to $5,000.<ref>[American Legislative Exchange Council, 2011 Conference Sponsors, conference brochure on file with CMD, August 11, 2011]</ref>In September 2012, it announced that would not renew its ALEC membership after 2012.<ref>Salvador Rizzo, [http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/09/merck_co_to_leave_alec.html Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. to leave ALEC], ''New Jersey On-Line'', September 13, 2012</ref> See [[ALEC Corporations]] for a list of for-profit corporations with ties to ALEC, current or past, and [[Corporations Which Have Cut Ties to ALEC]] for a list of those corporations that have publicly cut funding to ALEC.
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