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Friedrich Merz
Friedrich Merz (born 11 November 1955) is a German lawyer and politician of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU). He served as a Member of the European Parliament 1989–1994, a member of the Bundestag 1994–2009, and as the chairman of CDU/CSU parliamentary group 2000–2002. In 2018 he announced his candidacy in the CDU leadership election in December 2018.
Merz has worked as a judge and as a corporate lawyer. He was a full-time politician from 1989 to 2009
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History.
Merz Pharma was founded in 1908 by Friedrich Merz, a pharmacist by training. In 1909, the company moved to a new location at Eckenheimer Landstraße.
Merz has over 2700 employees and had 994 million euros of sales in 2013-14. The US subsidiary of Merz is Merz Pharmaceuticals LLC which was located in Greensboro, North Carolina. However, Merz has recently decided to move to Raleigh, North Carolina.
In 2014, Merz purchased the medical device maker Ulthera for $600 million