Kuraray vs Merck KGaA
Side by side, from the public record each company was imported from. Where a figure is missing it is because no source we hold states it — not because it is zero.
Merck KGaA is the older of the two, founded in 1668 — 258 years before Kuraray.
- Founded
- 1926
- 1668
- Status
- Active
- Active
- Headquarters
- Tokyo, Japan
- Darmstadt, Germany
- Industry
- chemical industry
- chemical industry
- Founders
- Magosaburō Ōhara
- Friedrich Jacob Merck, Heinrich Emanuel Merck, Carl Merck, Wilhelm Merck, Georg Merck
- Employees
- Not recorded
- 56,000
- Legal form
- kabushiki gaisha
- partnership limited by shares
- Listed on
- Not recorded
- Frankfurt Stock Exchange
Facts on both companies come from the public records named on Kuraray and Merck KGaA.