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In 1887 a German-born, long-time Merck employee, Theodore Weicker, went to the United States to represent Merck Group. In 1891, with $200,000 received from E. Merck, Weicker started Merck & Co., with headquarters in lower Manhattan.
In 1887, E. Merck & Co. sent a brilliant chemist, Theodore Weicker, who had been with the firm for 10 years, to New York in an attempt to capitalize on America’s newly acquired wealth. In 1891, 24-year-old George Merck, a grandson of Heinrich E. Merck, was sent to New York to oversee the newly established American office.
In 1903 Theodore Weicker sold his share of the business to George Merck and, with an-other partner, purchased E. R. Squibb & Sons (1, 2).
In 1887 E. Merck sent a representative, Theodore Weicker, to the United States to set up a sales office. Weicker (who would go on to own drug powerhouse Bristol-Myers Squibb) was joined by George Merck, the 24-year-old grandson of Heinrich Emmanuel Merck in 1891.
In 1891, George Merck, the ambitious 23-year-old grandson of Merck Group's founder, injected vital capital and youthful energy by joining Theodore Weicker's nascent American outfit to formally establish Merck & Co.
In 1891, Georg(e) Merck established himself in the United States and set up Merck & Co. with Theodore Weicker in New York. Merck & Co. was confiscated following the First World War and set up as an independent company in the United States.
Merck stayed closely in touch with the m edical sciences, and when the germ theory and serum treatm ents for disease were developed in the late nineteenth century, the firm was quick to set up a bacteriological laboratory and develop vaccines and diphtheria serum .
