Johannes Baillou, Chairman of the board of partners of E. MERCK KG and Vice president of the E. MERCK family board visited iBET

Yesterday, we were honored to receive the visit of Johannes Baillou, Chairman of the board of partners of E. MERCK KG and Vice president of the Merck family board visited iBET.

After a round the table discussion on iBET’s collaboration with MERCK, which has been going on since iBET’s early years, Johannes Baillou and Bruno Wohlschlegel (General Manger of MERCK in Portugal) visited the iBET-MERCK Satellite Labs, some R&D labs, GenIBET and the Pilot Plant.

Quoting Johannes Baillou, “I am impressed with how much you have to offer and how great it is to see this mix between Business and Academia. There are not so many of such examples”.

About the family company E. Merck KG

In 1995, the partners decided to enable external shareholders to invest in the company, which led to the public listing of MERCK KGaA.  Today, shareholders now hold 30% of the total capital while the Merck family holds 70% via the general partner E. MERCK KG. E. MERCK KG is the Group parent company of all Merck companies yet it does not have any operating businesses itself. It makes the policy decisions for Merck Group. The vast majority of the capital is held by members of the Merck family.