The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Chemicals And Pharamceuticals Manufacture Of Basic Pharmaceutical Products And Pharmaceutical Preparations 21 - Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
13 May 2010
Employment effect (start)
31 May 2010
Foreseen end date
Description
US-owned pharmaceutical multinational, Merck Sharp and Dohme (MSD) is to create 150 jobs in Dublin due to the opening of a new business services centre. MSD is establishing its European, Middle East and Africa (Emea) shared business services centre in the Irish capital. MSD, which merged with Schering-Plough, employs about 2,300 people in total across its various plants in Counties Wicklow, Carlow, Tipperary, Cork and Dublin.
Sources
14 May 2010: The Irish Times
Citation
Eurofound (2010), Merck Sharp Dohme (MSD), Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 70566, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70566.
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