Merck Millipore Named 53rd on the Boston Business Journal’s List of Top Charitable Contributors

September 12, 2012, Billerica, MA — Merck Millipore, the Life Science division of Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany was ranked number 53 on the Boston Business Journal’s List of 2012 Top Charitable Contributors.

• Who: The Merck Millipore Giving Program
• What: Ranked 53 on the Boston Business Journal’s List of 2012 Top Charitable Contributors
• When: Wednesday, September 12, 2012
• Where: The Boston Business Journal’s Annual “Corporate Citizenship Summit” held this year at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel
• Why: The Merck Millipore Giving Program was ranked 53 on the Boston Business Journal’s List of Top Charitable Contributors. The Top Charitable Contributors- defined by the BBJ as organizations that donated $50,000 or more to local non-profits in 2011- were honored at the Corporate Citizenship Summit on September 12.  In 2011, Merck Millipore donated $338,495 to Massachusetts non-profits through grants and sponsorships.
   
  “We are very proud to make the Boston Business Journal’s List of Top Charitable Contributors once again,” says Tara Duplaga, Manager of the Merck Millipore Giving Program.  “It’s not only Merck Millipore’s obligation but our pleasure to be a socially responsible organization. By providing assistance focused on local science, health care, education and environmental programs and non-profit organization, we are bringing the mission of our Life Sciences company full-circle.”

 For more information, please contact Cait Healey at (978)-715-1663 or at Cait.Healey@merckgroup.com 

More about the Merck Millipore Giving Program 
Merck Millipore’s charitable giving and community relations efforts focus on science, health care education and the environment, which are issues that are most connected to the company’s mission as a life science organization. Through multi-year partnerships with major charities and individual grants to smaller non-profits, Merck Millipore targets its funding to achieve the following objectives: support critical research aimed at mitigating and eradicating major diseases; expand access to health care services; strengthen STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) curricula in elementary and secondary education; increase access to higher education through scholarships, and encourage practices that support long-term environmental sustainability.

About Merck Millipore 
Merck  Millipore is the Life Science division of Merck KGaA of Germany and offers a broad range of innovative, performance products, services and business relationships that enable our customers' success in research, development and production of biotech and pharmaceutical drug therapies. Through dedicated collaboration on new scientific and engineering insights, and as one of the top three R&D investors in the Life Science Tools industry, Merck Millipore serves as a strategic partner to customers and helps advance the promise of life science.

Headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts, the division has around 10,000 employees, operations in 67 countries and 2011 revenues of EUR 2.4 billion. Merck Millipore operates as EMD Millipore in the U.S. and Canada.

Note: Merck KGaA or Merck shall mean Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany